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Okla. Stat. tit. 68, § 2856

Express companies - Statement under oath - Assessment

Official textoscn.netlast amended Jan 01, 199210 subsections

# A.

Every express company doing business in this state shall file with the Oklahoma Tax Commission a statement under oath, which shall include a duplicate of the report made by said company to the Interstate Commerce Commission of its assets, income, disbursements and business for the year ending on the thirty-first day of December of the preceding year.

# B.

Each statement shall also contain the following items, or such of them as may not be covered by the information contained in the report to the Interstate Commerce Commission, and which said item shall be reported as the same existed on the thirty-first day of December of the preceding year:

# 1.

The total net assets of the company, as the same are carried upon the books of the company;

# 2.

The total net assets of the company invested in or pertaining to business other than the express business, as such assets are carried upon the books of the company;

# 3.

The total net assets of the company pertaining to or invested in its express business, as the same are carried upon the books of the company;

# 4.

The amount of the capital stock of the company and the number of shares into which the same is divided, or if the company has no capital stock, then the number of shares or interests into which it is divided, together with the value placed upon each share, or interest, for bookkeeping purposes;

# 5.

The market value of the share of the capital stock, or of the shares or interest of the company, which market price shall be determined by the average price at which such shares of the capital stock or shares or interest of the company shall have been sold during the year upon the New York Stock Exchange, or if such shares or interest of the company are not listed upon the New York Stock Exchange, then the average price at which the same have been sold during the year upon all other stock exchanges;

# 6.

The total mileage, other than ocean mileage, over which the company conducts an express business; and

# 7.

The mileage over which the company conducts an express business in this state, the mileage in each county of the state, and the mileage in each taxing district of each county of the state.

# C.

In assessing any express company, the State Board of
Equalization may determine the value of all property of such company pertaining to or employed in its express business, and allocate to Oklahoma its proportion of the total value upon any just and reasonable basis. The total assessment for the state shall then be allocated to the various counties, and municipal subdivisions thereof, in the proportion which the mileage of the express company in such counties and subdivisions bears to the total mileage of such company in this state. Where an express company has an office or other taxable property in a county or other taxing district in which it has no operated mileage, such property shall be listed and assessed in the county and taxing district where located on January 1.

Amendment history

Added by Laws 1988, c. 162, § 56, eff. Jan. 1, 1992.

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