Montana Code Annotated 1995

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     15-31-702. Distribution of corporation license taxes collected from banks or savings and loan associations. (1) All corporation license taxes, interest, and penalties collected from banks and savings and loan associations must, in accordance with the provisions of 15-1-501, be distributed in the following manner:
     (a) 20% must be allocated as provided in 15-1-501(3); and
     (b) 80% is statutorily appropriated, as provided in 17-7-502, for allocation to the various taxing jurisdictions within the county in which the bank or savings and loan association is located.
     (2) The corporation license taxes, interest, and penalties distributed under subsection (1)(b) must be allocated to each taxing jurisdiction in the proportion that its mill levy for that fiscal year bears to the total mill levy of the taxing authorities of the district in which the bank or savings and loan association is located.
     (3) "Taxing jurisdictions" means, for the purposes of this section, all taxing authorities within a county permitted under state law to levy mills against the taxable value of property in the taxing district in which the bank or savings and loan association is located.
     (4) If a return filed by a bank or savings and loan association involves branches or offices in more than one taxing jurisdiction, the department of revenue shall provide a method by rule for equitable distribution among those taxing jurisdictions.

     History: En. Sec. 6, Ch. 634, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 10, Ch. 703, L. 1985; amd. Sec. 12, Ch. 16, L. 1991; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 626, L. 1991; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 455, L. 1993; amd. Sec. 11, Ch. 18, L. 1995.

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