For purposes of this article:
(1) "Export property" means property manufactured, produced, grown, or extracted to which value is added in this State for direct use, consumption, or disposition outside the United States.
(2) "Foreign trading receipts" means receipts from invoices issued by a seller directly to an unrelated purchaser outside the United States from:
(a) the sale, exchange, or other disposition of export property outside the United States;
(b) the lease or rental of export property that is used by the lessee outside the United States;
(c) the performance of services that is related and subsidiary to the sale, exchange, lease, rental, or other disposition of export property outside the United States by the South Carolina taxpayer including, but not limited to, maintenance and training services;
(d) the performance of engineering, architectural, or consulting services for projects located outside the United States.
(3) "Increase in gross income from foreign trading receipts" is the amount by which the gross income from foreign trading receipts during the applicable tax year exceeds a base amount equal to the average of annual gross income from foreign trading receipts over the three taxable years before the applicable taxable year.
(4) "Base period T-bill rate" means the annual rate of interest determined by the department to be equivalent to the average investment yield of United States Treasury bills with maturities of fifty-two weeks which were auctioned during the one-year period ending on September thirtieth of the calendar year ending with or of the most recent calendar year ending before the close of the tax year of the taxpayer.
HISTORY: 1995 Act No. 76, Section 1.