Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 54A:4-1.1

  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Judgement: The official decision of a court finally determining the respective rights and claims of the parties to a suit.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
3. a. For taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2020 but before January 1, 2024, a resident taxpayer who:

(1) pays any income tax or wage tax imposed for the taxable year by another state of the United States, or political subdivision of such state, or by the District of Columbia;

(2) applies for and is denied a refund from such state or jurisdiction for taxes paid to that state or jurisdiction on income derived from services rendered while the resident taxpayer was within New Jersey;

(3) files an appeal with a tax court or tribunal through which the resident taxpayer formally protests the denial by another state or jurisdiction of the refund requested by the resident taxpayer for taxes paid on income derived from services rendered while the resident taxpayer was within New Jersey; and

(4) obtains a final judgement from the tax court or tribunal resulting in the resident taxpayer being refunded taxes paid to another state or jurisdiction on income derived from services rendered while the resident taxpayer was within New Jersey shall be allowed a credit against the tax otherwise due for the taxable year under the “New Jersey Gross Income Tax Act,” N.J.S. 54A:1-1 et seq., in amount equal to 50 percent of the amount of taxes that are owed to the State of New Jersey as a result of the readjustment of the credit for tax of another state pursuant to subsection (e) of N.J.S. 54A:4-1

b. If the amount of the credit allowed pursuant to subsection a. of this section exceeds the amount of tax otherwise due, that amount of excess shall be an overpayment for the purposes of N.J.S.54A:9-7; provided however, that subsection (f) of N.J.S. 54A:9-7 shall not apply.

L.2023, c.125, s.3.