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NMSA 1978, § 7-1-13 — Taxpayer returns; payment of taxes; extension of time
A.
Taxpayers are liable for tax at the time of and after the transaction or incident
giving rise to tax until payment is made. Taxes are due on and after the date on which
their payment is required until payment is made.
B.
Every taxpayer shall, on or before the date on which payment of any tax is due,
complete and file a tax return in a form prescribed and according to the regulations
issued by the secretary. Except as provided in Section 7-1-13.1 NMSA 1978 or by
regulation, ruling, order or instruction of the secretary, the payment of any tax or the
filing of any return may be accomplished by mail. When the filing of a tax return or
payment of a tax is accomplished by mail, the date of the postmark shall be considered
the date of submission of the return or payment.
C.
Payment of the total amount of all taxes that are due from the taxpayer shall
precede or accompany the return. Delivery to the department of a check or electronic
check that is not paid upon presentment does not constitute payment.
D.
The secretary or the secretary's delegate may, for good cause, extend in favor of
a taxpayer or a class of taxpayers, for no more than a total of twelve months, the date
on which payment of any tax is required or on which any return required by provision of
the Tax Administration Act shall be filed. When an extension of time for income tax has
been granted a taxpayer pursuant to the Internal Revenue Code, the extension shall
serve to extend the time for filing New Mexico income tax; provided that a copy of the
approved federal extension of time is attached to the taxpayer's New Mexico income tax
return. The secretary by regulation may also provide for the automatic extension for no
more than six months of the date upon which payment of any New Mexico income tax
or the filing of any New Mexico income tax return is required. If the secretary or the
secretary's delegate believes it necessary to ensure the collection of the tax, the
secretary or the secretary's delegate may require, as a condition of granting any
extension, that the taxpayer furnish security in accordance with the provisions of
Section 7-1-54 NMSA 1978.
E.
Except as provided in Subsection F of this section, no later than one hundred
eighty days after the final determination date, a taxpayer shall file a federal adjustments
report with the department and pay any state tax due with respect to final net-positive
federal adjustments arising from:
(1) an audit or other action by the internal revenue service; or
(2) a timely filed amended federal income tax return, including a return or
other similar information filed pursuant to Section 6225(c)(2) of the Internal Revenue
Code.
F.
Except for federal adjustments that are required to be reported pursuant to
Subsection E of this section, partnerships and partners shall report final net-positive
federal adjustments arising from a partnership level audit or an administrative
adjustment request and make payments as follows:
(1) except for where the partnership or tiered partner makes an election
pursuant to Subsection G of this section, the partnership or tiered partner shall:
(a) file: 1) a completed federal adjustments report and notify each of its direct
partners of their distributive share of the final federal adjustments, including information
necessary for reporting state tax due as required by the department; and 2) an
amended withholding return for the reviewed year if such return was filed, or would have
been required pursuant to the Withholding Tax Act [Chapter 7, Article 3 NMSA 1978];
(b) in the case of an audited partnership, file the returns required by this
paragraph no later than ninety days after the final determination date; and
(c) in the case of a tiered partner of an audited partnership, file the returns
required by this paragraph no later than ninety days after the time for the audited
partnership's filing and furnishing statements to tiered partnerships and their partners as
established pursuant to Section 6226 of the Internal Revenue Code and the regulations
thereunder; and
(2) a partner of a partnership or a tiered partner subject to tax pursuant to
Section 7-2-3 or 7-2A-3 NMSA 1978 on adjustments to which Paragraph (1) of this
subsection applies shall file a federal adjustments report reporting the partner's
distributive share of the adjustments and shall pay the additional amount of state tax
due, plus any penalty and interest due and less any credit for related amounts paid or
withheld and remitted on behalf of the partner pursuant to Paragraph (1) of this
subsection as follows:
(a) for taxable direct partners of the audited partnership, no later than one
hundred eighty days after the final determination date; or
(b) for taxable indirect partners of the audited partnership, no later than one
hundred eighty days after the time for the audited partnership's filing and furnishing
statements to tiered partnerships and their partners as established pursuant to Section
6226 of the Internal Revenue Code and the regulations thereunder.
G.
The election provided by this subsection applies only to federal adjustments
other than the distributive share of federal adjustments that must be included in the
unitary business income of any direct or indirect corporate partner; provided that this
can be reasonably determined, or federal adjustments resulting from an administrative
adjustment request. A partnership making an election pursuant to this subsection shall:
(1) file a completed federal adjustments report and notify the department that
it is making the election pursuant to this subsection; and
(2) pay an amount, determined as follows, in lieu of taxes owed by its direct
and indirect taxable partners:
(a) exclude from the total final federal adjustments the distributive share
reported to a direct partner that is an exempt partner unless the adjustment represents
unrelated business taxable income;
(b) include only the portion of the total federal adjustment to distributive
shares of partners taken into account pursuant to Section 6225(b)(2) of the Internal
Revenue Code;
(c) apportion and allocate the adjustments as provided by the Uniform
Division of Income for Tax Purposes Act [Chapter 7, Article 4 NMSA 1978] as applied at
the partnership level following any department regulations adopted for this purpose;
(d) multiply the resulting amount by the highest tax rate provided by Section
7-2A-5 NMSA 1978; and
(e) add to the amount calculated pursuant to Subparagraph (d) of this
paragraph an amount of penalty and interest computed pursuant to the Tax
Administration Act.
H.
In any action required or allowed to be taken pursuant to the Tax Administration
Act with respect to the reporting of federal adjustments by a partnership, the state
partnership representative for the reviewed year shall have the sole authority to act on
behalf of the partnership, and the partnership's direct partners and indirect partners
shall be bound by those actions. The state partnership representative is the
partnership's federal partnership representative for the reviewed year, unless the
partnership designates in writing another person as its state partnership representative;
provided that the person meets any qualifications established by the department.
I.
Pursuant to procedures that may be adopted by the department, an audited
partnership or tiered partner of that partnership may enter into an agreement with the
department to utilize an alternative reporting and payment method, including applicable
time requirements or any other provision pursuant to Subsections E through H of this
section, if the audited partnership or tiered partner demonstrates that the requested
method will reasonably provide for the reporting and payment of taxes, penalties and
interest due pursuant to Subsections E through H of this section. Application for
approval of an alternative reporting and payment method must be made by the audited
partnership or tiered partner within the time for election as provided in Subsection G of
this section, as appropriate.
J.
An election made pursuant to Subsection G or I of this section is irrevocable,
unless the department, in its discretion, determines otherwise. If properly reported and
paid by the audited partnership or tiered partner, the amount determined in Paragraph
(2) of Subsection G of this section, or similarly under an optional election pursuant to
Subsection I of this section, will be treated as paid in lieu of taxes owed by its direct and
indirect partners on the same final federal adjustments. The direct or indirect partners
of the partnership that pays this in lieu of amount may not claim any deduction, credit or
refund with respect to that amount.
K.
A taxpayer may make estimated payments of state tax expected to result from a
pending audit by the internal revenue service prior to the final determination date,
following the process prescribed by the department, and such payments will limit the
accrual of further statutory interest on that amount.
L.
A taxpayer may claim an amount of state tax resulting from final net-negative
federal adjustments as provided in Section 7-1-26 NMSA 1978.
M.
Nothing in Subsections E through L of this section shall prevent the department
from assessing direct partners or indirect partners for taxes they owe, using the best
information available, in the event that a partnership or tiered partner fails to timely
make any report or payment required for any reason.
N.
As used in this section:
(1) "administrative adjustment request" means an administrative adjustment
request filed by a partnership pursuant to Section 6227 of the Internal Revenue Code;
(2) "audited partnership" means a partnership subject to a partnership level
audit resulting in a federal adjustment;
(3) "corporate partner" means a partner, direct or indirect, that is subject to
tax pursuant to the Corporate Income and Franchise Tax Act [Chapter 7, Article 2A
NMSA 1978];
(4) "direct partner" means any partner that holds an interest directly in a
partnership or pass-through entity;
(5) "exempt partner" means a partner, direct or indirect, that is exempt from
New Mexico income tax except on unrelated business taxable income;
(6) "federal adjustment" means a change to an item or amount determined
pursuant to the Internal Revenue Code that is used by a taxpayer to compute an
amount of state tax owed, whether that change results from action by the internal
revenue service, including a partnership level audit, or the filing of an amended federal
return, federal refund claim or an administrative adjustment request by a partnership;
(7) "federal adjustments report" includes the methods or forms required by the
department for use by a taxpayer to report final federal adjustments, including an
amended tax return, information return or a uniform multistate report;
(8) "final determination date" means:
(a) except as provided in Subparagraphs (b), (c) and (d) of this paragraph, if a
federal adjustment arises from an audit or other action by the internal revenue service,
the final determination date is the first day on which no federal adjustments arising from
that audit or other action remain to be finally determined, whether by a decision of the
internal revenue service with respect to which all rights of appeal have been waived or
exhausted, by agreement, or, if appealed or contested, by a final decision with respect
to which all rights of appeal have been waived or exhausted. For agreements required
to be signed by the internal revenue service and the taxpayer, the final determination
date is the date on which the last party signed the agreement;
(b) for federal adjustments arising from an internal revenue service audit or
other action by the internal revenue service, if the taxpayer filed as a member of a filing
group pursuant to the Corporate Income and Franchise Tax Act, the final determination
date means the first day on which no related federal adjustments arising from that audit
remain to be finally determined, as described in Subparagraph (a) of this paragraph, for
the entire group;
(c) except as provided in Subparagraph (d) of this paragraph, if the federal
adjustment results from filing an amended federal return, a federal refund claim or an
administrative adjustment request, or if it is a federal adjustment reported on an
amended federal return or other similar report filed pursuant to Section 6225(c) of the
Internal Revenue Code, the final determination date means the day on which the
amended return, refund claim, administrative adjustment request or other similar report
was filed; and
(d) for adjustments resulting from a partnership level audit or an
administrative adjustment request for which the final determination date pursuant to
Subparagraph (a) or (c) of this paragraph is determined to be a date occurring prior to
June 18, 2021, the final determination date shall be July 1, 2021;
(9) "final federal adjustments" means adjustments for which the final
determination date has passed, including final net-positive federal adjustments and final
net-negative federal adjustments;
(10) "indirect partner" means a partner in a partnership or pass-through entity
in which the partner holds an interest directly, or through another indirect partner, in a
partnership or pass-through entity;
(11) "net-negative federal adjustments" means federal adjustments relating to
the same tax period, whether made by the taxpayer or the internal revenue service, the
net effect of which is to decrease state tax due as compared to tax originally reported
for that period;
(12) "net-positive federal adjustments" means federal adjustments relating to
the same tax period, whether made by the taxpayer or the internal revenue service, the
net effect of which is to increase state tax due as compared to tax originally reported for
that period;
(13) "partner" means a person that holds an interest directly or indirectly in a
partnership or other pass-through entity;
(14) "partnership" means an entity subject to taxation pursuant to Subchapter
K of the Internal Revenue Code;
(15) "partnership level audit" means an examination by the internal revenue
service at the partnership level pursuant to Subchapter C or Subtitle F, Chapter 63 of
the Internal Revenue Code that results in federal adjustments;
(16) "pass-through entity" means an entity, other than a partnership, that is not
subject to tax pursuant to the Corporate Income and Franchise Tax Act;
(17) "reviewed year" means the taxable year of a partnership that is subject to
a partnership level audit from which federal adjustments arise;
(18) "taxpayer" means a taxpayer, including a partnership subject to a
partnership level audit or a partnership that has made an administrative adjustment
request, as well as a tiered partner of that partnership, unless the context indicates
otherwise;
(19) "tiered partner" means any partner that is a partnership or pass-through
entity; and
(20) "unrelated business taxable income" means "unrelated business taxable
income" as used in Section 512 of the Internal Revenue Code.
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