17-2036. Same; annual reports; contents; annual report fee; penalties for noncompliance; applications for extension for filing income tax returns, confidentiality. (a) Every business trust shall make an annual report in writing to the secretary of state, stating the prescribed information concerning the business trust at the close of business on the last day of its tax period under the Kansas income tax act next preceding the date of filing, but if a business trust's tax period is other than the calendar year, it shall give notice thereof to the secretary of state prior to December 31 of the year it commences such tax period. The reports shall be made on forms provided by the secretary of state and shall be filed at the time prescribed by law for filing the business trust's annual Kansas income tax return. The report shall be signed by a trustee or other authorized officer under penalty of perjury and contain the following:

(1) Executed copies of all amendments to the instrument by which the business trust was created, or to prior amendments thereto, which have been adopted and have not theretofore been filed under K.S.A. 17-2033, and amendments thereto, and accompanied by the fee prescribed therein for each such amendment; and

(2) a verified list of the names and addresses of its trustees as of the end of its tax period.

(b) (1) At the time of filing its annual report, the business trust shall pay to the secretary of state an annual report fee in an amount equal to $40.

(2) The failure of any domestic or foreign business trust to file its annual report and pay its annual report fee within 90 days from the date on which they are due, as described in subsection (a), or, in the case of an annual report filing and fee received by mail, postmarked within 90 days from the date on which they are due, as described in subsection (a), shall work a forfeiture of its authority to transact business in this state and all of the remedies, procedures and penalties specified in K.S.A. 17-7509 and 17-7510, and amendments thereto, with respect to a corporation which fails to file its annual report or pay its annual report fee within 90 days after they are due, shall be applicable to such business trust.

(c) All copies of applications for extension of the time for filing income tax returns submitted to the secretary of state pursuant to law shall be maintained by the secretary of state in a confidential file and shall not be disclosed to any person except as authorized pursuant to the provisions of K.S.A. 79-3234, and amendments thereto, a proper judicial order and subsection (d). All copies of such applications shall be preserved for one year and until the secretary of state orders that the copies are to be destroyed.

(d) A copy of such application shall be open to inspection by or disclosure to any person designated by resolution of the trustees of the business trust.

History: L. 1961, ch. 127, § 10; L. 1973, ch. 91, § 4; L. 1999, ch. 41, § 1; L. 2002, ch. 185, § 39; L. 2004, ch. 171, § 16; L. 2005, ch. 157, § 3; L. 2007, ch. 81, § 1; L. 2016, ch. 110, § 11; July 1.