COMPTROLLER v. AMERICAN SATELLITE CORP.

No. 89, September Term, 1987.

312 Md. 537 (1988)

540 A.2d 1146

COMPTROLLER OF THE TREASURY INCOME TAX DIVISION v. AMERICAN SATELLITE CORPORATION.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

May 10, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John K. Barry, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Gerald Langbaum, Asst. Atty. Gen., on brief) Annapolis, for appellant.

Michael L. Quinn (Melnicove, Kaufman, Weiner, Smouse & Garbis, P.A., on brief) Baltimore, for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, ADKINS and BLACKWELL, JJ.


MURPHY, Chief Judge.

The question presented is whether, under Maryland's income tax statutes, out-of-state losses incurred by a multi-state corporation reporting no federal taxable income may offset in-state capital gains allocable to this State under Maryland Code (1957, 1980 Repl.Vol.), Article 81, § 316(b)(3).

I.

Maryland's corporate income tax was originally enacted in 1937.1 This Act taxed the "net income" of...

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