(1) Except as provided in subsection (5) of this section, for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2009, an approved company may be eligible for a nonrefundable credit of up to one hundred percent (100%) of the Kentucky income tax imposed under KRS § 141.020 or 141.040, and the limited liability entity tax imposed under KRS § 141.0401 that would otherwise be owed by the approved company to the Commonwealth for the approved company’s tax year, on the income, Kentucky gross profits, or Kentucky gross receipts of the approved company generated by or arising from the reinvestment project.
(2) The credit allowed the approved company shall be applied against both the income tax imposed by KRS § 141.020 or 141.040, and the limited liability entity tax imposed by KRS § 141.0401, with credit ordering as provided in KRS § 141.0205, for the tax year for which the tax return of the approved company is filed. Any credit not used in the year in which it was first available may be carried forward to subsequent years, provided that no credit may be carried forward beyond the term of the reinvestment agreement.

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 154.34-120

  • Approved company: means an eligible company approved under KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 154.34-010
  • Approved costs: means the eligible equipment and related costs approved by the authority that may be recovered by an approved company through the incentives authorized by this subchapter. See Kentucky Statutes 154.34-010
  • Commonwealth: means the Commonwealth of Kentucky. See Kentucky Statutes 154.34-010
  • Company: may extend and be applied to any corporation, company, person, partnership, joint stock company, or association. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Final approval: means the action taken by the authority designating a preliminarily approved eligible company as an approved company to receive incentives under this subchapter. See Kentucky Statutes 154.34-010
  • Incentives: means the Kentucky tax credit as prescribed in this subchapter. See Kentucky Statutes 154.34-010
  • Project: includes but is not limited to agribusiness, agricultural or forestry production, harvesting, storage, or processing facilities or equipment. See Kentucky Statutes 154.1-010
  • Reinvestment project: means :
    (a) A reinvestment in the facility of an eligible company and in the full-time employees of an eligible company through the acquisition, construction, and installation of new equipment and, with respect thereto, the construction, rehabilitation, and installation of improvements to facilities necessary to house the new equipment, including surveys. See Kentucky Statutes 154.34-010
  • Year: means calendar year. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010

(3) The approved company shall not be required to pay estimated tax payments under KRS § 141.044 on the Kentucky taxable income, Kentucky gross receipts, or Kentucky gross profits generated by or arising from the eligible project.
(4) The credit provided by this section shall be determined as provided in KRS
141.415.
(5) (a) For an approved company which receives preliminary approval prior to February 1, 2010, the amount of incentives allowed in any year shall not exceed the lesser of the tax liability of the approved company related to the reinvestment project for that taxable year or the approved costs that have not yet been recovered.
(b) For an approved company which receives preliminary approval on or after February 1, 2010, the amount of incentives allowed in any year shall not exceed the lesser of the tax liability of the approved company related to the reinvestment project for that taxable year or twenty percent (20%) of the total amount of the approved costs.
(c) The incentives shall be allowed for each taxable year of the approved company during the term of the reinvestment agreement for which a tax return is filed by the approved company.
Effective: June 27, 2019
History: Amended 2019 Ky. Acts ch. 151, sec. 72, effective June 27, 2019. — Amended
2010 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 2, sec. 8, effective June 4, 2010. — Created 2009 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 1, sec. 5, effective June 26, 2009.
Legislative Research Commission Note (6/26/2009). 2009 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 1, sec. 7, provides that, notwithstanding the amendments contained in Sections 1 to 6 of that Act (which includes this statute), “all reinvestment projects preliminarily approved on or after the effective date of this Act shall not be eligible for final approval until July 1, 2010″; and 2009 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 1, sec. 8,
provides that, notwithstanding the amendments in Sections 1 to 6 of that Act or the repeals in Section 114 of that Act, “all reinvestment projects preliminarily or finally approved prior to the effective date of this Act shall be governed by Subchapter 34 of KRS Chapter 154 as it existed prior to the effective date of this Act.”