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Q&A with the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue
For CNI Tax and CS/FF Tax purposes, are gross proceeds or net gains from the sale of derivatives, e.g., futures, options and swaps, includable in a corporation’s sales factor (assuming that the derivatives are not securities)?
Jun 30, 2011
To the extent they are not classified as a security, net gains are used in computing the sales factor.
[Note: there is a question as to whether these items are a security excluded from the sales factor.]