(A)As used in this section:
(1)"Borrower" means any person that receives a loan from the director of development under section166.21of the Revised Code, regardless of whether the borrower is subject to the tax imposed by section5747.02of the Revised Code.
(2)"Related member" has the same meaning as in section5733.042of the Revised Code.
(3)"Qualified research and development loan payments" has the same meaning as in section166.21of the Revised Code.
(B)Beginning with taxable years beginning in 2003, a nonrefundable credit is allowed against a taxpayer's aggregate tax liability under section5747.02of the Revised Code equal to a borrower's qualified research and development loan payments made during the calendar year that includes the last day of the taxable year for which the credi
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(A) As used in this section:
(1) "Borrower" means any person that receives a loan from the director of development under section166.21of the Revised Code, regardless of whether the borrower is subject to the tax imposed by section5747.02of the Revised Code.
(2) "Related member" has the same meaning as in section5733.042of the Revised Code.
(3) "Qualified research and development loan payments" has the same meaning as in section166.21of the Revised Code.
(B) Beginning with taxable years beginning in 2003, a nonrefundable credit is allowed against a taxpayer's aggregate tax liability under section5747.02of the Revised Code equal to a borrower's qualified research and development loan payments made during the calendar year that includes the last day of the taxable year for which the credit is claimed. The amount of the credit for a taxable year shall not exceed one hundred fifty thousand dollars. No taxpayer is entitled to claim a credit under this section unless it has obtained a certificate issued by the director of development under division (D) of section166.21of the Revised Code and submits a copy of the certificate with its report for the taxable year. Failure to submit a copy of the certificate with the report does not invalidate a claim for a credit if the taxpayer submits a copy of the certificate within sixty days after the tax commissioner requests it. The credit shall be claimed in the order required under section5747.98of the Revised Code. No credit shall be allowed under this section if the credit was available against the tax imposed by Chapter 5751. of the Revised Code except to the extent the credit was not applied against that tax. The credit, to the extent it exceeds the taxpayer's aggregate tax liability for the taxable year after allowance for any other credits that precede the credit under this section in that order, shall be carried forward to the next succeeding taxable year or years until fully used.
(C) A borrower entitled to a credit under this section may assign the credit, or a portion thereof, to any of the following:
(1) A related member of that borrower;
(2) The owner or lessee of the eligible research and development project;
(3) A related member of the owner or lessee of the eligible research and development project.
A borrower making an assignment under this division shall provide written notice of the assignment to the tax commissioner and the director of development, in such form as the tax commissioner prescribes, before the credit that was assigned is used. The assignor may not claim the credit to the extent it was assigned to an assignee. The assignee may claim the credit only to the extent the assignor has not claimed it.
(D) If any taxpayer is a shareholder in an S corporation, a partner in a partnership, or a member in a limited liability company treated as a partnership for federal income tax purposes, the taxpayer shall be allowed the taxpayer's distributive or proportionate share of the credit available through the S corporation, partnership, or limited liability company.
(E) The aggregate credit against the taxes imposed by section5747.02and Chapter 5751. of the Revised Code that may be claimed under this section and section5751.52of the Revised Code by a borrower as a result of qualified research and development loan payments attributable during a calendar year to any one loan shall not exceed one hundred fifty thousand dollars.