(a) Investment tax credit (ITC). (1) A taxpayer shall be allowed a credit, to be computed as hereinafter provided, against the tax imposed by this article. The amount of the credit shall be the per cent provided for hereinbelow of the investment credit base. The investment credit base is the cost or other basis, for federal income tax purposes, of tangible personal property and other tangible property, including buildings and structural components of buildings, described in paragraph two of this subsection, less the amount of the nonqualified nonrecourse financing with respect to such property to the extent such financing would be excludible from the credit base pursuant to section 46(c)(8) of the internal revenue code (treating such property as section thirty-eight property irrespective of whether or not it in fact constitutes section thirty-eight property). If, at the close of a taxable year following the taxable year in which such property was placed in service, there is a net decrease in the amount of nonqualified nonrecourse financing with respect to such property, such net decrease shall be treated as if it were the cost or other basis of property described in paragraph two of this subsection acquired, constructed, reconstructed or erected during the year of the decrease in the amount of nonqualified nonrecourse financing. The percentage to be used to compute the credit allowed pursuant to this subsection shall be that percentage appearing in column two which is opposite the appropriate period in column one in which the tangible personal property was acquired, constructed, reconstructed or erected, as the case may be: Column 1 Column 2 After December 31, 1968 and prior to January 1, 1974 one per cent After December 31, 1973 and prior to January 1, 1978 two per cent After December 31, 1977 and prior to January 1, 1979 three per cent After December 31, 1978 and prior to June 1, 1981 four per cent After May 31, 1981 and prior to July 1, 1982 five per cent After June 30, 1982 and before January 1, 1987 six per cent After December 31, 1986 four per cent, except that in the case of research and development property the applicable percentage shall be seven Provided, however, that in the case of an acquisition, construction, reconstruction or erection which was commenced in any one period and continued or completed in any subsequent period the credit shall be the sum of the portions of the investment credit base attributable to each such period, which portion with respect to each such period shall be ascertained by multiplying such investment credit base by a fraction the numerator of which shall be the expenditures paid or incurred during such period for such purposes and the denominator of which shall be the total of all expenditures paid or incurred for such acquisition, construction, reconstruction or erection, multiplied by the allowable percentage for each such period.
- (1-a) For a taxpayer that is an eligible farmer, as defined in subsection (n) of this section, the percentage to be used to compute the credit allowed under this subsection shall be twenty percent for property described in subparagraph (A) of paragraph two of this subsection that is principally used by the taxpayer in the production of goods by farming, agriculture, horticulture, floriculture or viticulture.
(2)
- (A) A credit shall be allowed under this subsection with respect to tangible personal property and other tangible property, including buildings and structural components of buildings, which are: depreciable pursuant to section one hundred sixty-seven of the internal revenue code, have a useful life of four years or more, are acquired by purchase as defined in section one hundred seventy-nine (d) of the internal revenue code, have a situs in this state and are (i) principally used by the taxpayer in the production of goods by manufacturing, processing, assembling, refining, mining, extracting, farming, agriculture, horticulture, floriculture, viticulture or commercial fishing, (ii) industrial waste treatment facilities or air pollution control facilities, used in the taxpayer's trade or business, (iii) research and development property, (iv) principally used in the ordinary course of the taxpayer's trade or business as a broker or dealer in connection with the purchase or sale (which shall include but not be limited to the issuance, entering into, assumption, offset, assignment, termination, or transfer) of stocks, bonds or other securities as defined in section four hundred seventy-five (c)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code, or of commodities as defined in section 475(e) of the Internal Revenue Code, (v) principally used in the ordinary course of the taxpayer's trade or business of providing investment advisory services for a regulated investment company as defined in section eight hundred fifty-one of the Internal Revenue Code, or lending, loan arrangement or loan origination services to customers in connection with the purchase or sale (which shall include but not be limited to the issuance, entering into, assumption, offset, assignment, termination, or transfer) of securities as defined in section four hundred seventy-five (c)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code, or (vi) principally used as a qualified film production facility including qualified film production facilities having a situs in an empire zone designated as such pursuant to article eighteen-B of the general municipal law, where the taxpayer is providing three or more services to any qualified film production company using the facility, including such services as a studio lighting grid, lighting and grip equipment, multi-line phone service, broadband information technology access, industrial scale electrical capacity, food services, security services, and heating, ventilation and air conditioning. For purposes of clauses (iv) and (v) of this subparagraph, property purchased by a taxpayer affiliated with a regulated broker, dealer, or registered investment adviser is allowed a credit under this subsection if the property is used by its affiliated regulated broker, dealer or registered investment adviser in accordance with this subsection. For purposes of determining if the property is principally used in qualifying uses, the uses by the taxpayer described in clauses (iv) and (v) of this subparagraph may be aggregated. In addition, the uses by the taxpayer, its affiliated regulated broker, dealer and registered investment adviser under either or both of those clauses may be aggregated. Provided, however, a taxpayer shall not be allowed the credit provided by clauses (iv) and (v) of this subparagraph unless (I) eighty percent or more of the employees performing the administrative and support functions resulting from or related to the qualifying uses of such equipment are located in this state, or (II) the average number of employees that perform the administrative and support functions resulting from or related to the qualifying uses of such equipment and are located in this state during the taxable year for which the credit is claimed is equal to or greater than ninety-five percent of the average number of employees that perform these functions and are located in this state during the thirty-six months immediately preceding the year for which the credit is claimed, or (III) the number of employees located in this state during the taxable year for which the credit is claimed is equal to or greater than ninety percent of the number of employees located in this state on December thirty-first, nineteen hundred ninety-eight or, if the taxpayer was not a calendar year taxpayer in nineteen hundred ninety-eight, the last day of its first taxable year ending after December thirty-first, nineteen hundred ninety-eight. If the taxpayer becomes subject to tax in this state after the taxable year beginning in nineteen hundred ninety-eight, then the taxpayer is not required to satisfy the employment test provided in the preceding sentence of this subparagraph for its first taxable year. For the purposes of clause (III) of this subparagraph the employment test will be based on the number of employees located in this state on the last day of the first taxable year the taxpayer is subject to tax in this state. If the uses of the property must be aggregated to determine whether the property is principally used in qualifying uses, then either each affiliate using the property must satisfy this employment test or this employment test must be satisfied through the aggregation of the employees of the taxpayer, its affiliated regulated broker, dealer, and registered investment adviser using the property. For purposes of clause (i) of this subparagraph, tangible personal property and other tangible property shall not include property principally used by the taxpayer in the production or distribution of electricity, natural gas after extraction from wells, steam, or water delivered through pipes and mains.
- (B) For purposes of this paragraph, the following definitions shall apply:
- (i) Manufacturing shall mean the process of working raw materials into wares suitable for use or which gives new shapes, new quality or new combinations to matter which already has gone through some artificial process by the use of machinery, tools, appliances and other similar equipment. Property used in the production of goods shall include machinery, equipment or other tangible property which is principally used in the repair and service of other machinery, equipment or other tangible property used principally in the production of goods and shall include all facilities used in the production operation, including storage of material to be used in production and of the products that are produced.
- (ii) Research and development property shall mean property which is used for purposes of research and development in the experimental or laboratory sense. Such purposes shall not be deemed to include the ordinary testing or inspection of materials or products for quality control, efficiency surveys, management studies, consumer surveys, advertising, promotions, or research in connection with literary, historical or similar projects.
- (iii) Industrial waste treatment facilities shall mean property constituting facilities for the treatment, neutralization or stabilization of industrial waste and other wastes (as the terms "industrial waste" and "other wastes" are defined in section 17-0105 of the environmental conservation law) from a point immediately preceding the point of such treatment, neutralization or stabilization to the point of disposal, including the necessary pumping and transmitting facilities, but excluding such facilities installed for the primary purpose of salvaging materials which are usable in the manufacturing process or are marketable.
- (iv) Air pollution control facilities shall mean property constituting facilities which remove, reduce, or render less noxious air contaminants emitted from an air contamination source (as the terms "air contaminant" and "air contamination source" are defined in section 19-0107 of the environmental conservation law) from a point immediately preceding the point of such removal, reduction or rendering to the point of discharge of air, meeting emission standards as established by the department of environmental conservation, but excluding such facilities installed for the primary purpose of salvaging materials which are usable in the manufacturing process or are marketable and excluding those facilities which rely for their efficacy on dilution, dispersion or assimilation of air contaminants in the ambient air after emission. Such term shall further include flue gas desulfurization equipment and attendant sludge disposal facilities, fluidized bed boilers, precombustion coal cleaning facilities or other facilities that conform with this subsection and which comply with the provisions of the State Acid Deposition Control Act set forth in title nine of article nineteen of the environmental conservation law.
- (v) For purposes of this paragraph, the terms "qualified film production facility" and "qualified film production company" shall have the same meaning as in section twenty-four of this chapter.
- (C) However, such credit shall be allowed with respect to industrial waste treatment facilities and air pollution control facilities only on condition that such facilities have been certified by the state commissioner of environmental conservation or his designated representative, pursuant to subdivision one of section 17-0707 or subdivision one of section 19-0309 of the environmental conservation law, as complying with applicable provisions of the environmental conservation law, the public health law, the state sanitary code and codes, rules, regulations, permits or orders issued pursuant thereto.
- (3) A taxpayer shall not be allowed a credit under this subsection with respect to any property described in clause (i) of subparagraph (B) of paragraph two hereof if such property qualifies for the modification allowed under either paragraph three or paragraph four of subsection (g) of section six hundred twelve whether or not such amount shall have been subtracted. Provided, however, with respect to property which qualifies for a modification under either clause (A), (B) or (C) of paragraph four of subsection (g) because such property was ordered on or before December thirty-first, nineteen hundred sixty-eight, but with respect to which no expenditure has been paid or incurred at such date, the taxpayer may elect to subtract the amount allowable under clauses (A), (B) or (C) or may take the credit provided by this subsection, but not both.
- (4) A taxpayer shall not be allowed a credit under this subsection with respect to tangible personal property and other tangible property, including buildings and structural components of buildings, which it leases to any other person or corporation except where a taxpayer leases property to an affiliated regulated broker, dealer, or registered investment adviser that uses such property in accordance with clause (iv) or (v) of subparagraph (A) of paragraph two of this subsection. For purposes of the preceding sentence, any contract or agreement to lease or rent or for a license to use such property shall be considered a lease. Provided, however, in determining whether a taxpayer shall be allowed a credit under this subsection with respect to such property, any election made with respect to such property pursuant to the provisions of paragraph eight of subsection (f) of section one hundred sixty-eight of the internal revenue code, as such paragraph was in effect for agreements entered into prior to January first, nineteen hundred eighty-four, shall be disregarded. For purposes of this paragraph, the use of a qualified film production facility by a qualified film production company shall not be considered a lease of such facility to such company.
- (5) If the amount of credit allowable under this subsection for any taxable year shall exceed the taxpayer's tax for such year, the excess allowed for a taxable year commencing prior to January first, nineteen hundred eighty-seven may be carried over to the following year or years and may be deducted from the taxpayer's tax for such year or years, but in no event shall such credit be carried over to taxable years commencing on or after January first, nineteen hundred ninety-seven, and any amount of credit allowed for a taxable year commencing on or after January first, nineteen hundred eighty-seven and not deductible in such year may be carried over to the ten taxable years next following such taxable year and may be deducted from the taxpayer's tax for such year or years. In lieu of carrying over any such excess, (A) a taxpayer who qualifies as an owner of a new business for purposes of paragraph ten of this subsection may, at the taxpayer's option, receive such excess as a refund, and (B) a taxpayer that is an eligible farmer as defined in subsection (n) of this section may, at the taxpayer's option, for taxable years beginning before January first, two thousand twenty-eight receive such excess as a refund. Any refund paid pursuant to this paragraph shall be deemed to be a refund of an overpayment of tax as provided in section six hundred eighty-six of this article, provided, however, that no interest shall be paid thereon.
- (6) At the option of the taxpayer for taxable years commencing prior to January first, nineteen hundred eighty-seven, air or water pollution control facilities which qualify for elective modifications under subsection (h) of section six hundred twelve, or research and development facilities which qualify for elective modifications under paragraphs two and four of subsection (g) of section six hundred twelve may be treated as property principally used by the taxpayer in the production of goods by manufacturing, processing, assembling, refining, mining, extracting, farming, agriculture, horticulture, floriculture, viticulture or commercial fishing, provided the property otherwise qualifies under paragraph two of this subsection, in which event, a modification shall not be allowed under such subsection (h) and under such paragraphs two and four of subsection (g).
(7)
- (A) With respect to property which is depreciable pursuant to section one hundred sixty-seven of the internal revenue code but is not subject to the provisions of section one hundred sixty-eight of such code and which is disposed of or ceases to be in qualified use prior to the end of the taxable year in which the credit is to be taken, the amount of the credit shall be that portion of the credit provided for in this subsection which represents the ratio which the months of qualified use bear to the months of useful life. If property on which credit has been taken is disposed of or ceases to be in qualified use prior to the end of its useful life, the difference between the credit taken and the credit allowed for actual use must be added back in the year of disposition. Provided, however, if such property is disposed of or ceases to be in qualified use after it has been in qualified use for more than twelve consecutive years, it shall not be necessary to add back the credit as provided in this subparagraph. The amount of credit allowed for actual use shall be determined by multiplying the original credit by the ratio which the months of qualified use bear to the months of useful life. For purposes of this subparagraph, useful life of property shall be the same as the taxpayer uses for depreciation purposes when computing his federal income tax liability.
- (B) Except with respect to that property to which subparagraph (D) of this paragraph applies, with respect to three-year property, as defined in subsection (e) of section one hundred sixty-eight of the internal revenue code, which is disposed of or ceases to be in qualified use prior to the end of the taxable year in which the credit is to be taken, the amount of the credit shall be that portion of the credit provided for in this subsection which represents the ratio which the months of qualified use bear to thirty-six. If property on which credit has been taken is disposed of or ceases to be in qualified use prior to the end of thirty-six months, the difference between the credit taken and the credit allowed for actual use must be added back in the year of disposition. The amount of credit allowed for actual use shall be determined by multiplying the original credit by the ratio which the months of qualified use bear to thirty-six.
- (C) Except with respect to that property to which subparagraph (D) of this paragraph applies, with respect to property subject to the provisions of section one hundred sixty-eight of the internal revenue code, other than three-year property as defined in subsection (e) of such section one hundred sixty-eight which is disposed of or ceases to be in qualified use prior to the end of the taxable year in which the credit is to be taken, the amount of the credit shall be that portion of the credit provided for in this subsection which represents the ratio which the months of qualified use bear to sixty. If property on which credit has been taken is disposed of or ceases to be in qualified use prior to the end of sixty months, the difference between the credit taken and the credit allowed for actual use must be added back in the year of disposition. The amount of credit allowed for actual use shall be determined by multiplying the original credit by the ratio which the months of qualified use bear to sixty.
- (D) With respect to any property to which section one hundred sixty-eight of the internal revenue code applies, which is a building or a structural component of a building and which is disposed of or ceases to be in qualified use prior to the end of the taxable year in which the credit is to be taken, the amount of the credit shall be that portion of the credit provided for in this subsection which represents the ratio which the months of qualified use bear to the total number of months over which the taxpayer chooses to deduct the property under the internal revenue code. If property on which credit has been taken is disposed of or ceases to be in qualified use prior to the end of the period over which the taxpayer chooses to deduct the property under the internal revenue code, the difference between the credit taken and the credit allowed for actual use must be added back in the year of disposition. Provided, however, if such property is disposed of or ceases to be in qualified use after it has been in qualified use for more than twelve consecutive years, it shall not be necessary to add back the credit as provided in this subparagraph. The amount of credit allowed for actual use shall be determined by multiplying the original credit by the ratio which the months of qualified use bear to the total number of months over which the taxpayer chooses to deduct the property under the internal revenue code.
- (E) For purposes of this paragraph, property (i) which is described in subparagraph (B), (C) or (D) of this paragraph, and (ii) which is subject to paragraph twenty-six of subsection (c) and paragraph twenty-five of subsection (b) of section six hundred twelve of this chapter, shall be treated as property which is depreciable pursuant to section one hundred sixty-seven of the internal revenue code but is not subject to section one hundred sixty-eight of such code.
- (F) For purposes of this paragraph, where a credit is allowed with respect to an air pollution control facility on the basis of a certificate of compliance issued pursuant to the environmental conservation law and the certificate is revoked pursuant to subdivision three of section 19-0309 of the environmental conservation law, such revocation shall constitute a disposal or cessation of qualified use, unless such facility is described in clause (i) or (iii) of subparagraph (A) of paragraph two of this subsection. Also for purposes of this subparagraph, the use of an air pollution control facility or an industrial waste treatment facility for the primary purpose of salvaging materials which are usable in the manufacturing process or are marketable shall constitute a cessation of qualified use, unless such facility is described in clause (i) or (iii) of subparagraph (A) of paragraph two of this subsection.
- (G) For taxable years commencing on or after January first, nineteen hundred eighty-seven, the amount required to be added back pursuant to this paragraph shall be augmented by an amount equal to the product of such amount and the underpayment rate of interest (without regard to compounding), set by the commissioner pursuant to subsection (j) of section six hundred ninety-seven, in effect on the last day of the taxable year.
- (H) If, as of the close of the taxable year, there is a net increase with respect to the taxpayer in the amount of nonqualified nonrecourse financing (within the meaning of section 46(c) (8) of the internal revenue code) with respect to any property with respect to which the credit under this subsection was limited based on attributable nonqualified nonrecourse financing, then an amount equal to the decrease in such credit which would have resulted from reducing, by the amount of such net increase, the cost or other basis taken into account with respect to such property must be added back in such taxable year. The amount of nonqualified nonrecourse financing shall not be treated as increased by reason of a transfer of (or agreement to transfer) any evidence of an indebtedness if such transfer occurs (or such agreement is entered into) more than one year after the date such indebtedness was incurred.
(10) For purposes of paragraph five of this subsection, an individual who is either a sole proprietor or a member of a partnership shall qualify as an owner of a new business unless:
- (A) the business of which the individual is an owner is substantially similar in operation and in ownership to a business entity taxable, or previously taxable, under section one hundred eighty-three, one hundred eighty-four or former section one hundred eighty-five former section of article nine; article nine-A or thirty-three of this chapter; article twenty-three of this chapter or which would have been subject to tax under such article twenty-three (as such article was in effect on January first, nineteen hundred eighty), article thirty-two of this chapter or which would have been subject to tax under such article thirty-two (as such article was in effect on December thirty-first, two thousand fourteen) or the income (or losses) of which is (or was) includable under article twenty-two of this chapter whereby the intent and purpose of this paragraph and paragraph five of this subsection with respect to refunding of credit to new business would be evaded; or
- (B) the individual has operated such new business entity in this state for more than five taxable years (excluding short years of the business).
- (11) Retail enterprise tax credit. A retail enterprise, not eligible to claim the credit under paragraph one of this subsection, but eligible to claim the credit allowable under section thirty-eight of the internal revenue code pursuant solely to the provisions of subparagraph (E) of paragraph one of subsection (a) of section forty-eight of such code, shall be allowed a credit as hereinafter computed. The amount of the credit shall be the percentage appearing in paragraph one of this subsection for the periods described therein for the amount of qualified rehabilitation expenditures, as defined in subsection (g) of section forty-eight of such code, paid or incurred with respect to a qualified rehabilitated building, as defined in such subsection (g), located in this state and such expenditures shall be further limited to only the portion thereof paid or incurred with respect to that part of a qualified rehabilitated building employed by such taxpayer in the retail sales activity of such retail enterprise. For the purposes of this subsection, the term "retail enterprise" means a taxpayer which is: (A) a registered vendor under article twenty-eight of this chapter, (B) primarily engaged in the retail sale, as the term "retail sale" is defined in subparagraph (i) of paragraph four of subdivision (b) of section eleven hundred one of this chapter, of tangible personal property, and (C) otherwise eligible for the credit allowed pursuant to section thirty-eight of the internal revenue code.
- (12) Rehabilitation credit for historic barns. A taxpayer shall be allowed a credit, to be computed as hereinafter provided, against the tax imposed by this article. The amount of the credit shall be twenty-five percent of the taxpayer's qualified rehabilitation expenditures paid or incurred within the five years immediately preceding the year in which such tax credit shall be applied with respect to any barn located in this state which qualifies as an historic barn pursuant to subdivision five of section four hundred eighty-three-b of the real property tax law. For purposes of this paragraph, the term "barn" means a building that is or was used as an agricultural facility or for purposes related to agriculture. Provided, however, such qualified rehabilitation expenditures shall not include any such expenditures which are included, directly or indirectly, in the computation of a credit claimed by the taxpayer pursuant to paragraph one of this subsection. Provided further that no rehabilitation credit shall be allowed for any rehabilitation of a barn which, immediately prior to the commencement of such rehabilitation, was used for residential purposes, or which converts a barn not suitable for residential purposes into one which is so suitable, nor shall a rehabilitation credit be allowed for any rehabilitation that materially alters the historic appearance of the barn. (13)(A)(i) If a taxpayer is required by paragraph seven of this subsection to add back a portion of the credit taken because property was destroyed or ceased to be in qualified use as a direct result of the September eleventh, two thousand one terrorist attacks, such taxpayer may elect to defer the amount to be recaptured for all such property to the taxable year next succeeding the taxable year in which the destruction or cessation of qualified use occurred. The taxable year in which the destruction or cessation of qualified use occurred shall be hereinafter referred to as the "recapture event taxable year". If the taxpayer's total employment number in the state on the last day of the taxable year next succeeding the recapture event taxable year is a significant percentage of the taxpayer's average total employment number in the state for the taxpayer's recapture event taxable year and the two taxable years immediately preceding the recapture event taxable year, then the taxpayer shall not be required to recapture any credit with respect to such property. If the taxpayer's total employment number in the state on the last day of the taxable year next succeeding the recapture event taxable year is not a significant percentage of the taxpayer's average total employment number in the state for the taxpayer's recapture event taxable year and the two taxable years immediately preceding the recapture event taxable year, the taxpayer shall be required to recapture the portion of the credit taken under this subsection, as required by paragraph seven of this subsection, for all of its property destroyed or which ceased to be in qualified use as a direct result of the September eleventh, two thousand one terrorist attacks. The amount required to be recaptured shall be augmented as required pursuant to subparagraph (G) of paragraph seven of this subsection by using an interest rate equal to two times the rate of interest specified in such subparagraph seven applicable for the taxable year in which the recapture occurs.
- (ii) The taxpayer's total employment number shall include all employees of the taxpayer employed full-time by the taxpayer in the state. The average total employment number for the recapture event taxable year and the two taxable years immediately preceding the recapture event taxable year shall be computed by determining the taxpayer's total employment number on the thirty-first day of March, the thirtieth day of June, the thirtieth day of September and the thirty-first day of December during the applicable taxable years, adding together the number of such individuals determined to be so employed on each of such dates and dividing the sum so obtained by the number of such dates occurring within such applicable taxable years. However, in the case of the taxable year which included September eleventh, two thousand one, the average total employment number for such taxable year shall be determined by using the total employment number on September first, two thousand one in lieu of September thirtieth, two thousand one and, if such taxable year included December thirty-first, two thousand one, by excluding the total employment number on December thirty-first, two thousand one.
- (B) In lieu of subparagraph (A) of this paragraph, a taxpayer may elect to recapture the portion of the credit taken under this subsection, as required by paragraph seven of this subsection, for all of its property destroyed or which ceased to be in qualified use as a direct result of the September eleventh, two thousand one terrorist attacks, in the taxable year in which the destruction or cessation of qualified use occurred. If the taxpayer makes such election and acquires property (hereinafter referred to as "replacement property") to replace any property destroyed as a direct result of the September eleventh, two thousand one terrorist attacks (regardless of when such property was placed in service and whether a credit was claimed on that property pursuant to this subsection), and such replacement property is similar or related in service or use to such destroyed property, the investment credit base of the replacement property shall be determined without regard to any basis reduction required pursuant to section 1033 of the internal revenue code.
- (C) The election made by the taxpayer under subparagraph (A) or (B) of this paragraph shall be made in the manner and form prescribed by the commissioner.
- (D) A taxpayer, over fifty percent of whose employees died as a direct result of the September eleventh, two thousand one terrorist attacks, may make the election provided for in subparagraph (A) of this paragraph, and shall not be required to recapture any credit with respect to property which was destroyed or which ceased to be in qualified use as a direct result of such attacks, whether or not it meets the employment test specified in clause (i) of subparagraph (A) of this paragraph.
- (a-1) Employment incentive credit (EIC). (1)(A) Where a taxpayer is allowed a credit under subsection (a) of this section, other than at the optional rate applicable to research and development property, the taxpayer shall be allowed a credit for each of the two years next succeeding the taxable year for which the credit under such subsection (a) is allowed with respect to such property, whether or not deductible in such taxable year or in subsequent taxable years pursuant to paragraph five of subsection (a) of this section. Provided, however, that the credit allowable under this subsection for any taxable year shall be allowed only if the average number of employees during such taxable year is at least one hundred one percent of the average number of employees during the employment base year. The employment base year shall be the taxable year immediately preceding the taxable year for which the credit under such subsection (a) is allowed except that in the case of a new business, the employment base year shall be the taxable year in which the credit under such subsection (a) is allowed.
- (B) The amount of the credit allowed under this subsection shall be as set forth in the following table: Average number of employees during Credit allowed under this the taxable year expressed as a subsection expressed as a percentage of average number of percentage of the applicable employees in employment base year: investment credit base: Less than 102% 1.5% at least 102% and less than 103% 2% at least 103% 2.5%
- (2) The average number of employees in a taxable year shall be computed by ascertaining the number of employees within the state employed by the taxpayer on the thirty-first day of March, the thirtieth day of June, the thirtieth day of September and the thirty-first day of December in the taxable year, by adding together the number of employees ascertained on each of such dates and dividing the sum so obtained by the number of such abovementioned dates occurring within the taxable year. For the purposes of this subsection, the term "employees within the state" shall not include, except with respect to the employment base year, any employee with respect to whom a credit provided for under subsection (k) of this section is claimed for the taxable year, based on employment within a zone equivalent area designated as such pursuant to article eighteen-B of the general municipal law.
- (3) If the amount of credit allowable under this subsection for any taxable year shall exceed the taxpayer's tax for such year, the excess allowed for a taxable year may be carried over to the ten taxable years next following such taxable year and may be deducted from the taxpayer's tax for such year or years. In lieu of carrying over any such excess, a taxpayer who qualifies as an owner of a new business for purposes of paragraph ten of subsection (a) of this section may, at his or her option, receive such excess as a refund. Any refund paid pursuant to this paragraph shall be deemed to be a refund of an overpayment of tax as provided in section six hundred eighty-six of this article, provided, however, that no interest shall be paid thereon.
- (a-2) Hire a vet credit. (1) Allowance of credit. For taxable years beginning on or after January first, two thousand fifteen and before January first, two thousand twenty-nine, a taxpayer shall be allowed a credit, to be computed as provided in this subsection, against the tax imposed by this article, for hiring and employing, for not less than twelve continuous and uninterrupted months (hereinafter referred to as the twelve-month period) in a full-time or part-time position, a qualified veteran within the state. The taxpayer may claim the credit in the year in which the qualified veteran completes the twelve-month period of employment by the taxpayer. If the taxpayer claims the credit allowed under this subsection, the taxpayer may not use the hiring of a qualified veteran that is the basis for this credit in the basis of any other credit allowed under this article.
(2) Qualified veteran. A qualified veteran is an individual:
- (A) who served on active duty in the United States army, navy, air force, space force, marine corps, coast guard or the reserves thereof, or who served in active military service of the United States as a member of the army national guard, air national guard, New York guard or New York naval militia, or who served in the active uniformed services of the United States as a member of the commissioned corps of the national oceanic and atmospheric administration or the commissioned corps of the United States public health service; who (i) was released from active duty by general or honorable discharge, or (ii) has a qualifying condition, as defined in section one of the veterans' services law, and has received a discharge other than bad conduct or dishonorable from such service, or (iii) is a discharged LGBT veteran, as defined in section one of the veterans' services law, and has received a discharge other than bad conduct or dishonorable from such service;
- (B) who commences employment by the qualified taxpayer on or after January first, two thousand fourteen, and before January first, two thousand twenty-eight; and
- (C) who certifies by signed affidavit, under penalty of perjury, that he or she has not been employed for thirty-five or more hours during any week in the one hundred eighty day period immediately prior to his or her employment by the taxpayer.
- (3) Employer prohibition. An employer shall not discharge an employee and hire a qualifying veteran solely for the purpose of qualifying for this credit.
- (4) Amount of credit. The amount of the credit shall be fifteen percent of the total amount of wages paid to the qualified veteran during the veteran's first twelve-month period of employment. Provided, however, that, if the qualified veteran is a disabled veteran, as defined in paragraph (b) of subdivision one of section eighty-five of the civil service law, the amount of the credit shall be twenty percent of the total amount of wages paid to the qualified veteran during the veteran's first twelve-month period of employment. The credit allowed pursuant to this subsection shall not exceed in any taxable year: (i) fifteen thousand dollars for any qualified veteran, other than a disabled veteran, employed in a full-time position for one thousand eight hundred twenty or more hours in one twelve-month period, (ii) twenty thousand dollars for any qualified veteran who is a disabled veteran employed in a full-time position for one thousand eight hundred twenty or more hours in one twelve-month period, (iii) seven thousand five hundred dollars for any qualified veteran, other than a disabled veteran, employed in a part-time position for at least one thousand forty hours but not more than one thousand eight hundred nineteen hours in one twelve-month period, and (iv) ten thousand dollars for any qualified veteran who is a disabled veteran employed in a part-time position for at least one thousand forty hours but not more than one thousand eight hundred nineteen hours in one twelve-month period.
- (5) Carryover. If the amount of credit allowable under this subsection for any taxable year exceeds the taxpayer's tax for such year, any amount of credit not deductible in such taxable year may be carried over to the following three years and may be deducted from the taxpayer's tax for such year or years.