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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
A. For the purposes of this section, “net operating loss” means:
1. In the case of a taxpayer who has a net operating loss for the taxable year within the meaning of section 172(c) of the internal revenue code, 1 the amount of the net operating loss increased by the subtractions specified in § 43-1122, except the subtraction allowed in § 43-1122, paragraph 10, and reduced by the additions specified in § 43-1121.
B. If for any taxable year the taxpayer has a net operating loss:
1. Such net operating loss shall be a net operating loss carryover for:
(a) Each of the five succeeding taxable years for net operating losses arising in taxable periods through December 31, 2011.
(b) Each of the twenty succeeding taxable years for net operating losses arising in taxable periods beginning from and after December 31, 2011.
2. The carryover in the case of each such succeeding taxable year, other than the first succeeding taxable year, shall be the excess, if any, of the amount of such net operating loss over the sum of the taxable income for each of the intervening years computed by determining the net operating loss subtraction for each intervening taxable year, without regard to such net operating loss or to the net operating loss for any succeeding taxable year.
C. The amount of the net operating loss subtraction shall be the aggregate of the net operating loss carryovers to the taxable year.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Arizona Revised Statutes Title 43. Taxation of Income § 43-1123. Net operating loss; definition - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/az/title-43-taxation-of-income/az-rev-st-sect-43-1123/
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