Section 40-18-170 Circumstances under which corporation treated as partnership; "two-percent shareholder" defined.

Section 40-18-170

Circumstances under which corporation treated as partnership; "two-percent shareholder" defined.

For purposes of applying the provisions of this chapter which relate to employee fringe benefits, the Alabama S corporation shall be treated as a partnership, and any two-percent shareholder of the Alabama S corporation shall be treated as a partner of such partnership. The term "two-percent shareholder" means any person who owns, or is considered as owning in accordance with 26 U.S.C. §318, as in effect from time to time, on any day during the taxable year of the Alabama S corporation more than two percent of the outstanding stock of such corporation or stock possessing more than two percent of the total combined voting power of all stock of such corporation.

(Code 1975, §40-14-100; Acts 1984, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 84-756, p. 121, §11; Acts 1989, No. 89-837, p. 1671, §8.)