Section 206.609 - Definitions; P to S(1) "Person" means an individual, bank, financial institution, insurance company, association, corporation, flow-through entity, receiver, estate, trust, or any other group or combination of groups acting as a unit.(2) "Professional employer organization" means an organization, other than an organization whose business activities are included in industry group 736 under the standard industrial classification code as compiled by the United States department of labor, that provides the management and administration of the human resources of another entity by contractually assuming substantial employer rights and responsibilities through a professional employer agreement that establishes an employer relationship with the leased officers or employees assigned to the other entity by doing all of the following: (a) Maintaining a right of direction and control of employees' work, although this responsibility may be shared with the other entity.(b) Paying wages and employment taxes of the employees out of its own accounts.(c) Reporting, collecting, and depositing state and federal employment taxes for the employees.(d) Retaining a right to hire and fire employees.(3) "Revenue mile" means the transportation for a consideration of 1 net ton in weight or 1 passenger the distance of 1 mile.(4) "Sale" or "sales" means, except as provided in subdivision (e), the amounts received by the taxpayer as consideration from the following:(a) The transfer of title to, or possession of, property that is stock in trade or other property of a kind that would properly be included in the inventory of the taxpayer if on hand at the close of the tax period or property held by the taxpayer primarily for sale to customers in the ordinary course of the taxpayer's trade or business. For intangible property, the amounts received shall be limited to any gain received from the disposition of that property.(b) The performance of services that constitute business activities.(c) The rental, lease, licensing, or use of tangible or intangible property, including interest that constitutes business activity.(d) Any combination of business activities described in subdivisions (a), (b), and (c).(e) For taxpayers not engaged in any other business activities, sales include interest, dividends, and other income from investment assets and activities and from trading assets and activities.(5) "Shareholder" means a person who owns outstanding stock in a corporation or is a member of a business entity that files as a corporation for federal income tax purposes. An individual is considered as the owner of the stock, or the equity interest in a business entity that files as a corporation for federal income tax purposes, owned, directly or indirectly, by or for family members as defined by section 318(a)(1) of the internal revenue code.(6) "State" means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, any territory or possession of the United States, and any foreign country, or a political subdivision of any of the foregoing.Amended by 2011, Act 176,s 1, eff. 1/1/2012.Added by 2011, Act 38,s 2-5, eff. 1/1/2012.