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                              Schedule OR-TSE-AP Instructions
                              Oregon Transit Self-Employment                                                            2023 
                              Tax Apportionment

This publication is a guide, not a complete statement, of Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS) and Oregon Administrative Rules (OAR).  
For possible updates and more information, visit  www.oregon.gov/dor/business.

                                                                                     Exception: Use Schedule AP-2 if you’re an electing utility or 
Purpose of Schedule OR-TSE-AP                                                        telecommunications taxpayer.
Schedule OR-TSE-AP is used for all self-employed indi-                               Remember: If you meet the exception and elect this option, 
viduals that are doing business both in and out of the transit                       please check the box "Utility or telecommunications" on the 
district. Use this schedule with Forms OR-TM and OR-LTD.                             front of Form OR-TM or Form OR-LTD.
Each individual carrying on business both inside and outside                         The election is for taxpayers primarily engaged in utilities 
the district must complete this form and include it when                             and telecommunications to apportion income using the 
filing their return.                                                                 double-weighted sales factor formula provided in ORS 
                                                                                     314.650 (1999 edition). This election may be revoked later.
Apportionment and allocation
Apportionment is dividing apportionable income inside                                Apportionment factors
and outside the district by use of a formula. Allocation is                          1.  Property factor
the assignment of specific nonapportionable income to the 
district. Most individuals with self-employment income and                             Business property within the district is entered on line 1a. 
business activities both inside and outside the district must                        All owned or rented business property should be entered 
use the apportionment and allocation methods provided                                on line 1b.
in the Uniform Division of Income for Tax Purposes Act                                 • Owned property is valued at original cost. Show the 
(UDITPA)(ORS 314.605 through 314.675 and supporting                                  average value during the taxable year of real and tan-
administrative rules).                                                               gible personal property used in the business. This is the 
Rounding to whole dollars.    Enter amounts as whole dol-                            average of property values at the beginning and the end 
lars only. Example: $4,681.55 becomes $4,682; and $8,775.22                          of the tax period. An average of the monthly values may 
becomes $8,775.                                                                      be required if a more reasonable value results.
                                                                                       • Rented property is valued at eight times the annual 
Rounding percentages.         When computing the property, 
                                                                                     rent you pay. The annual rent paid must be reduced by 
payroll, and sales factor percentages, round the percentage 
                                                                                     nonbusiness subrentals. 
to four decimal places. For example, 12.34558 percent should 
be 12.3456 percent.                                                                  2.  Payroll factor
                                                                                       Compensation to employees for services performed must 
                                                                                     be included in the payroll factor. Payroll is assigned to the 
Partnership apportionment
                                                                                     district if:
If a partnership elects to file and pay the transit self-employ-                       • The services are performed entirely inside the district; 
ment tax for all of its participating individual partners, the                       or
partnership must use net earnings from self-employment                                 • The services are performed both in and out of the district, 
as reported on federal Form 1065 to figure the tax.  The ap-
                                                                                     but those services performed outside are only incidental;  
portionment is based on the partnership as a whole, not the 
                                                                                     or
individual partner.
                                                                                       • Some of the services are performed in the district and, (a) 
Example: Self-employment earnings from partnership                                   the base of operation or control is located in the district 
                                                                                     or, (b) the base of operation or control isn’t in the district 
Form 1065 ..............................................................$ 2,000,000
                                                                                     or in any district where the employee’s services are per-
Sales within transit district .................................$   35,000
                                                                                     formed, but the employee’s residence is in the district.
Total partnership sales .........................................$ 3,000,000 
Transit apportionment .........................................    .011667           3.  Sales factor
Net self-employment earnings ...........................$   23,334
                                                                                       The sales factor is the percentage that sales or other self-
Complete Schedule OR-TSE-AP, Schedules AP-1 or AP-2, to                              employment gross receipts within the district compare to 
determine the apportionment percent. Most taxpayers will                             sales or other self-employment gross receipts everywhere 
use Schedule AP-1, unless you meet the exception below.                              for the taxable year.
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  Other self-employment gross receipts, including services,        individual also emails billable work products to customers 
are any items other than sales of tangible personal prop-          located both inside and outside the district. The receipts 
erty.                                                              are sourced to the district to the extent the services were 
                                                                   delivered to the district.
  Amounts received for services should be entered, along 
with other self-employment gross receipts. Amounts re-                  (b) Same facts as (a) except the consultant’s home is lo-
ceived for services are included in the district to the extent     cated outside the district. Receipts would be sourced to 
the services are delivered to a location in the district           the district to the extent the services were delivered to the 
                                                                   district.
Sales of tangible personal property are assigned to the  
district if:                                                         (c) A broker located outside the district provides services 
  • The property is shipped or delivered to a purchaser in         to customers inside the district. Under MBS, the receipts 
the district; or                                                   from providing services to customers inside the district 
  • The property is shipped from a warehouse or other place        would be sourced to the district.
of storage in the district; and (a) the purchaser is the U.S.        (d) A landscaper located outside the district performs land-
government or, (b) the business income isn’t taxable               scaping services at locations inside the district.  Receipts 
outside the district or in the district of the purchaser.          from landscaping services at locations inside the district 
See ORS 314.665(3) for exceptions.                                 would be sourced to the district.
A taxpayer’s market for sales is in the district in the case of      (e) An auto mechanic performs services at their regular 
intangible property that is sold, if and to the extent the prop-   place of business located outside of the district but also 
erty is used in the district. Under this subsection:               offers mobile services to customers located both inside 
  (a) A contract right, government license or similar intan-       and outside the district. Receipts from mobile services to 
gible property that authorizes the holder to conduct a             customers located in the district would be sourced to the 
business activity in a specific geographic area is deemed          district. 
to be used in this district if the geographic area includes          (f) An author located in the district writes a book and sends 
all or part of this district.                                      it to a publisher located out of state. The published book 
     (b) Intangible property sales that are contingent on the      is then sold to customers throughout the U.S. including 
productivity, use or disposition of the intangible property        some who are located inside the district. The author earns 
shall be treated as the rental, lease or licensing of such         royalty income for each book sold. The royalty income is 
intangible property under subsection (2) of this section.          taxable in the district to the extent the author’s books are 
                                                                   sold within the district.  
  (c) All other intangible property sales shall be excluded 
from the sales factor.                                             Taxpayer assistance
The following examples illustrate how taxpayers would              Do you have questions or need help?
source receipts from services to transit districts under market-
based sourcing (MBS). These examples are for informational         www.oregon.gov/dor
purposes only and are not a statement of law. Your facts and       503-378-4988 or 800-356-4222
circumstances may result in a different determination.               questions.dor@dor.oregon.gov
  (a) An individual is a self-employed consultant who works        Specific transit self-employment tax questions:  
from their home located within the district. The individual          tse.help.dor@dor.oregon.gov
makes billable phone calls from their home to clients who          Contact us for ADA accommodations or assistance in other 
are located both inside and outside of the district. The           languages.

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