5. a. The authority shall, in cooperation with the director, establish and administer a corporation business tax credit transfer certificate program and an insurance premiums tax credit transfer certificate program to enable business entities with unused, otherwise allowable amounts of tax credits issued pursuant to sections 2 through 8 of P.L.2020, c.156 (C. 34:1B-270 through C. 34:1B-276) to exchange these credits, in whole or in part, for private financial assistance prior to the expiration of the tax credit.

A certificate issued by the director and the authority shall include a statement waiving the rights of the business entity to which the tax credit has been granted to claim any amount of remaining credit against any tax liability.

b. A business entity holding an unused, otherwise allowable tax credit issued pursuant to sections 2 through 8 of P.L.2020, c.156 (C. 34:1B-270 through C. 34:1B-276) may apply to the director and the authority for a tax credit transfer certificate pursuant to subsection a. of this section. Upon receipt thereof, the business entity may sell or assign, in full or in part, the tax credit transfer certificate to another taxpayer in exchange for private financial assistance to be provided by the purchaser or assignee of the tax credit transfer certificate to the seller thereof. The developer shall not sell a tax credit transfer certificate allowed under this section for consideration received by the developer of less than 85 percent of the transferred credit amount before considering any further discounting to present value which shall be permitted, except a developer of a residential project consisting of newly-constructed residential units that has received federal low income housing tax credits under 26 U.S.C. § 42(b)(1)(B)(i) may assign a tax credit transfer certificate for consideration of no less than 75 percent subject to the submission of a plan to the authority and the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency to use the proceeds derived from the assignment of tax credits to complete the residential project. The purchaser or assignee of the tax credit transfer certificate may apply the face value of the tax credit transfer certificate acquired against the purchaser’s or assignee’s applicable tax liability by claiming the tax credit on the purchaser’s or assignee’s corporation business tax or insurance premiums tax return with the corresponding tax credit transfer certificate accompanying the tax return. A purchaser or assignee of a tax credit transfer certificate pursuant to this section shall not make any subsequent transfers, assignments, or sales of the tax credit transfer certificate.

c. The authority shall publish on its Internet website the following information concerning each tax credit transfer certificate approved by the authority and the director pursuant to this section:

(1) the name of the transferor;

(2) the name of the transferee;

(3) the value of the tax credit transfer certificate;

(4) the State tax against which the transferee may apply the tax credit; and

(5) the consideration received by the transferor.

L.2020, c.156, s.5; amended 2021, c.160, s.3.