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  81R10595 BEF-F
 
  By: England H.B. No. 2391
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to a franchise tax exclusion for contractual flow-through
  funds paid to certain performing artists.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 171.1011(g), Tax Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (g)  A taxable entity shall exclude from its total revenue,
  to the extent included under Subsection (c)(1)(A), (c)(2)(A), or
  (c)(3), only the following flow-through funds that are mandated by
  contract to be distributed to other entities:
               (1)  sales commissions to nonemployees, including
  split-fee real estate commissions;
               (2)  the tax basis as determined under the Internal
  Revenue Code of securities underwritten; [and]
               (3)  subcontracting payments handled by the taxable
  entity to provide services, labor, or materials in connection with
  the actual or proposed design, construction, remodeling, or repair
  of improvements on real property or the location of the boundaries
  of real property; and
               (4)  payments made to a performing artist,
  entertainment act, touring show, or exhibition under a contract to
  perform at a ticketed event in this state in which the contract
  provides that the artist, act, show, or exhibition will receive a
  guaranteed dollar amount or a percentage of the revenue from ticket
  sales.
         SECTION 2.  This Act applies only to a report originally due
  on or after the effective date of this Act.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect January 1, 2010.