Without limiting the scope of a unitary business as determined in other situations, business activities conducted by corporations under common ownership that are in the same general line of business, such as a multistate grocery chain, will generally constitute a unitary business. Passive holding companies that directly or indirectly control one or more operating companies engaged in a unitary business shall themselves be deemed to be engaged in a unitary business with such companies. To fully understand the unitary business principle, it is important to review its historical underpinnings and development through supreme court precedent. Phrased in the disjunctive, the foregoing means that if the activities of one business either contributes to the activities of another business or are dependent upon the activities of another business, those businesses are part of a unitary business.
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