15-30-603. (Temporary) Montana farm and ranch risk management account -- deposits -- exclusion from income. (1) An individual or a family farm corporation engaged in an eligible agricultural business may create a Montana farm and ranch risk management account, as provided in 15-30-601 through 15-30-605, to use as a risk management tool for the individual's or family farm corporation's agricultural business. The number of risk management accounts that may be created is limited to one for each individual or family farm corporation.
     (2) Deposits to the account may be excluded from adjusted gross income as provided in 15-30-111 in an amount not to exceed the lesser of 20% of the taxpayer's net income attributable to agricultural business included in federal adjusted gross income or $20,000 a year. For the purposes of this section, a taxpayer is considered to have made a deposit to an account if the deposit is made:
     (a) during the tax year; or
     (b) for a specific tax year if it is made within 3 1/2 months after the close of the tax year.
     (3) A deposit not distributed within 5 years is considered to have been distributed to the taxpayer as provided in 15-30-605.
     (4) A portion of a deposit distributed within 6 months of the date deposited is income in the year for which an exclusion was taken. The taxpayer shall file a return or amended return as necessary to report the income in the appropriate year. (Terminates on occurrence of contingency--sec. 9, Ch. 262, L. 2001.)

     History: En. Sec. 3, Ch. 262, L. 2001.