(A) Except as otherwise provided in this section, terms used in this section have the same meaning as section 45D of the Internal Revenue Code, any related proposed, temporary, or final regulations promulgated under the Internal Revenue Code, any rules or guidance of the internal revenue service or the United States department of the treasury, and any related rules or guidance issued by the community development financial institutions fund of the United States department of the treasury, as such law, regulations, rules, and guidance exist on October 16, 2009.
As used in this section:
(1) "Adjusted purchase price" means the amount paid for the portion of a qualified equity investment approved or certified by the director of development services for a qualified community development entity in accordance with rules adopted under division (E) of this section.
(2) "Applicable percentage" means zero per cent for each of the first two credit allowance dates, seven per cent for the third credit allowance date, and eight per cent for the four following credit allowance dates.
(3) "Credit allowance date" means the date, on or after January 1, 2010, a qualified equity investment is made and each of the six anniversary dates thereafter. For qualified equity investments made after October 16, 2009, but before January 1, 2010, the initial credit allowance date is January 1, 2010, and each of the six anniversary dates thereafter is on the first day of January of each year.
(4) "Qualified community development entity" includes only entities:
(a) That have entered into an allocation agreement with the community development financial institutions fund of the United States department of the treasury with respect to credits authorized by section 45D of the Internal Revenue Code;
(b) Whose service area includes any portion of this state; and
(c) That will designate an equity investment in such entities as a qualified equity investment for purposes of both section 45D of the Internal Revenue Code and this section.
(5) "Qualified equity investment" is limited to an equity investment in a qualified community development entity that:
(a) Is acquired after October 16, 2009, at its original issuance solely in exchange for cash;
(b) Has at least eighty-five per cent of its cash purchase price used by the qualified community development entity to make qualified low-income community investments in qualified active low-income community businesses in this state, provided that in the seventh year after a qualified equity investment is made, only seventy-five per cent of such cash purchase price must be used by the qualified community development entity to make qualified low-income community investments in those businesses; and
(c) Is designated by the issuer as a qualified equity investment.
"Qualified equity investment" includes any equity investment that would, but for division (A)(5)(a) of this section, be a qualified equity investment in the hands of the taxpayer if such investment was a qualified equity investment in the hands of a prior holder.
(B) There is hereby allowed a nonrefundable credit against the tax imposed by section5725.18of the Revised Code for an insurance company holding a qualified equity investment on the credit allowance date occurring in the calendar year for which the tax is due. The credit shall equal the applicable percentage of the adjusted purchase price, subject to divisions (B)(1) and (2) of this section:
(1) For the purpose of calculating the amount of qualified low-income community investments held by a qualified community development entity, an investment shall be considered held by a qualified community development entity even if the investment has been sold or repaid, provided that, at any time before the seventh anniversary of the issuance of the qualified equity investment, the qualified community development entity reinvests an amount equal to the capital returned to or received or recovered by the qualified community development entity from the original investment, exclusive of any profits realized and costs incurred in the sale or repayment, in another qualified low-income community investment in this state within twelve months of the receipt of such capital. If the qualified low-income community investment is sold or repaid after the sixth anniversary of the issuance of the qualified equity investment, the qualified low-income community investment shall be considered held by the qualified community development entity through the seventh anniversary of the qualified equity investment's issuance.
(2) The qualified low-income community investment made in this state shall equal the sum of the qualified low-income community investments in each qualified active low-income community business in this state, not to exceed two million five hundred sixty-four thousand dollars, in which the qualified community development entity invests, including such investments in any such businesses in this state related to that qualified active low-income community business through majority ownership or control.
The credit shall be claimed in the order prescribed by section5725.98of the Revised Code. If the amount of the credit exceeds the amount of tax otherwise due after deducting all other credits in that order, the excess may be carried forward and applied to the tax due for not more than four ensuing years.
By claiming a tax credit under this section, an insurance company waives its rights under section5725.222of the Revised Code with respect to the time limitation for the assessment of taxes as it relates to credits claimed that later become subject to recapture under division (E) of this section.
(C) The aggregate amount of credit allocations made by the director of development services under this section and sections5726.54,5729.16, and5733.58of the Revised Code each fiscal year shall not exceed ten million dollars.
(D) If any amount of the federal tax credit allowed for a qualified equity investment for which a credit was received under this section is recaptured under section 45D of the Internal Revenue Code, or if the director of development services determines that an investment for which a tax credit is claimed under this section is not a qualified equity investment or that the proceeds of an investment for which a tax credit is claimed under this section are used to make qualified low-income community investments other than in a qualified active low-income community business in this state, all or a portion of the credit received on account of that investment shall be paid by the insurance company that received the credit to the superintendent of insurance. The amount to be recovered shall be determined by the director of development services pursuant to rules adopted under division (E) of this section. The director shall certify any amount due under this division to the superintendent of insurance, and the superintendent shall notify the treasurer of state of the amount due. Upon notification, the treasurer shall invoice the insurance company for the amount due. The amount due is payable not later than thirty days after the date the treasurer invoices the insurance company. The amount due shall be considered to be tax due under section5725.18of the Revised Code, and may be collected by assessment without regard to the time limitations imposed under section5725.222of the Revised Code for the assessment of taxes by the superintendent. All amounts collected under this division shall be credited as revenue from the tax levied under section5725.18of the Revised Code.
(E) The tax credits authorized under this section and sections5726.54,5729.16, and5733.58of the Revised Code shall be administered by the development services agency. The director of development services, in consultation with the tax commissioner and the superintendent of insurance, pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall adopt rules for the administration of this section and sections5726.54,5729.16, and5733.58of the Revised Code. The rules shall provide for determining the recovery of credits under division (D) of this section and under sections5726.54,5729.16, and5733.58of the Revised Code, including prorating the amount of the credit to be recovered on any reasonable basis, the manner in which credits may be allocated among claimants, and the amount of any application or other fees to be charged in connection with a recovery.
(F) The director of development services is authorized to charge reasonable application and other fees in connection with the administration of tax credits authorized by this section and sections5726.54,5729.16, and5733.58of the Revised Code. Any such fees collected shall be credited to the tax incentives operating fund created in section122.174of the Revised Code.
(G) Tax credits earned or allocated to a pass-through entity, as that term is defined in section5733.04of the Revised Code, under section5725.33,5726.54,5729.16, or5733.58of the Revised Code may be allocated to persons having a direct or indirect ownership interest in the pass-through entity for such persons' direct use in accordance with the provisions of any mutual agreement between such persons.
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