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New York State Department of Taxation and FinanceCorporation Tax MeF Acceptance Testing System for Tax Year 2025


Test 16—CTEF37

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Test Scenario

Return type: CT-3
Liability period: 01-01-2025–12-31-2025
Employer Identification Number: 00219XX16
Legal name: CTEF37 (Followed by a space, then your software ID
File number: Software calculated
Telephone number: 518-555-2626
Address: 37 WA Harriman Campus, Albany, NY 12227
State of incorporation: New York State
Date of incorporation: 04-15-2011
North American Industry Classification System business code number: 522310
Principal business activity: Mortgage Loan Brokers

Part 1

Section B

Line 1. Number of New York State employees: 250
Line 2. Wages paid to New York State employees: 28,000,000
Line 3. Number of business establishments: 2

Section C

Line 1. Federal return filed: 1120
Line 3. Required attachments: CT-3.4
Line 4. Number of tax credit forms filed: 4

Part 2

Prepayments
Date Paid Amount
Line 11 3-15-2025 100,000
Line 12 6-15-2025 100,000
Line 13 9-15-2025 100,000
Line 14 12-15-2025 100,000

Line 24. Balance of overpayment to be refunded: Software calculated

Part 3

Line 1. Federal Taxable Income before Net Operating Loss and special deductions: 4,000,000

Part 4

Calculation of tax on capital base
Line number Description

A

Beginning of year

B

End of year

Line 1  Total assets from federal return 650,000,000 700,000,000
Line 6 Total liabilities  300,000,000 500,000,000

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Part 6

Calculation of business apportionment factor
Line number Description

A

New York State

B

Everywhere

Line 1 Sales of tangible personal property 250,000 250,000
Line 4 Rentals of real and tangible personal property 150,000 150,000
Line 9 Interest from loans secured by real property 300,000 300,000
Line 31 Brokerage commissions 25,000,000 25,000,000
Line 32 Margin interest earned on behalf of brokerage accounts  10,000,000 10,000,000
Line 33 Fees for advisory services for underwriting or management of underwriting 30,000,000 30,000,000
Line 55 Receipts from other services/activities not specified 4,300,000 4,300,000

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CT-3.4

Line 5a. Net Operating Loss carryforward from prior year’s Form CT-3.4: 5,000

Schedule A

Apportioned business income or loss

A

 Tax period beginning and ending dates

B

Amount from Form CT-3 Part 3, line 17

C

When column B is not a loss, enter the ending dates of the tax period that generated an Net Operating Loss used to reduce the amount incolumn B

01-01-2025-12-31-2025 4,000,000 N/A
01-01-2024–12-31-2024 3,500,000 N/A
01-01-2023–12-31-2023 -6,500 N/A
01-01-2022–12-31-2022 20,000 N/A
01-01-2021–12-31-2021 45,000 N/A
01-01-2020–12-31-2020 20,000 12-31-2019
01-01-2019–12-31-2019 -25,000 N/A

CT-37

Line 1. Servicing mortgages credit: 50,000

CT-238

Line A. Claiming this credit as a corporation that earned the credit: Yes

Part 1

Schedule A

Certified historic structure information
Property

A

Address of certified historic structure 

B

Project number

C

Date of completion

1 37 WA Harriman Campus, Albany, NY 12227 NPSRHPC1234 05-15-2022
2 46 Graffin Dr, Latham, NY 12110 NPSRHPC1235 06-15-2021

Schedule B

Certiied historic structure credit amounts
Property Small project

A

Qualified rehabilitation expenditures

N/A 325,000
2 X 25,000

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Part 3

Line 19. Federal recapture amount on New York property: 15,000
Line 20. Amount of federal credit on New York property originally allowed: 85,000
Line 22. Amount of New York credit originally allowed: 40,000

CT-604

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Section 2

Name of empire Zone: Rensselaer
Date of first certification by Empire State Development: 06-11-2011

Schedule H

Part 1
EZ Employment
Current year employment number March 31 June 30 September 30 December 31
Number of full-time employees within all Empire Zones 50 60 60 65

EZ employment
Base period employment number Tax year ending March 31 June 30 September 30  December 31
A 12-13 21 19 22 24
B 12-12 16 23 21  23
C 12-11 15 19 20 N/A
Part 2
New York State employment
Current year employment number  March 31 June 30 September 30 December 31
Number of full-time employees within all Empire Zones 156 161  180 185

New York State employment
Base period employment number Tax year ending March 31 June 30 September 30 December 31
A 12-13 65 68 68 68
12-12 58 56 58 59
12-11 51 53 55 N/A


Schedule I

Computation of test year employment number within the EZs in which you are certified
Test year 01-12 to 12-12 March 31 June 30 September 30 December 31
Number of full time employees within the EZs 26  28 28 29

Schedule J—Software calculated

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Schedule K

Zone allocation factor
Line number Description

A

Empire Zone

B

New York State

Line 44 Average value of property 225,000  475,000
Line 46 Wages and other compensation of employees 250,000  875,000

Schedule L—Software calculated

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Schedule M—No content

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CT-606

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Section 2

Name of empire zone: Albany
Date of first certification by empire State Development: 05-01-2012
Year of the business tax benefit period: 10

Schedule H

Part 1
EZ employment
Current year employment number March 31 June 30 September 30 December 31
Number of full-time employees within all Empire Zones 45 48 49 50

EZ Employment
Base period employment number Tax year ending March 31 June 30 September 30 December 31
A 12-13 15 16 18 18
B 12-12 17 18 19 20
C 12-11 N/A 23  24 25
Part 2
New York State employment
Current year employment number March 31 June 30 September 30 December 31
Number of full-time employees within all Empire Zones 161 162 163 164

New York State employment
Base period employment number Tax year ending March 31 June 30 September 30 December 31
A 12-13 50 51 52 54
B 12-12  48  49 50 51
C 12-11 46 47 48 N/A

Schedule I—Software calculated

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Schedule J—Software calculated

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Schedule K

Employee information

A

Employee’s name

B

Employee’s Social SecurityNumber

C

Employee’s zone location

D

Total wages, health benefits, and retirement benefits 

E

Eligible wages, health benefits, and retirement benefits included in column D

Aiden John 111222333 Albany 15,000  15,000 
Ethan Antony 222333444 Albany 7,500 7,500
Melissa Job 333444555 Albany 4,000 4,000

Schedule L—Software calculated

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Schedule M—No content

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Schedule N

Line 52. Eligible real property taxes: 5,000

Schedule O—Softwear calculated

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Schedule P—No content

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Schedule Q

Part 1
Capital investment amount for QEZEs certified in DZs

A

Address of property

B

 Name of zone

C

Cost or other basis

E

Percentage of physical occupancy and use

122 Quip Pl, Albany, NY 12227 Albany 80,000 100
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