Every authority and every municipality in which any property of the authority is located may enter into agreements with respect to the payment by the authority to such municipality of annual sums of money in lieu of taxes on such property in such amounts as may be agreed upon between the authority and the municipality, and each such authority may make, and each such municipality is empowered to accept, such payments and to apply them in the manner in which taxes may be applied in such municipality; provided no such annual payment with respect to any parcel of such property shall exceed the amount of taxes paid thereon for the taxable year immediately prior to the time of its acquisition by the authority.