(a) Any person eligible for credit under this subchapter, except a person engaged in a resident curator relationship, may transfer, sell or assign any unused credits. Any person that transfers, sells or assigns any unused portion of a tax credit shall obtain and produce to the transferee, purchaser or assignee a certificate from the Division of Revenue or the Office of the State Bank Commissioner setting forth the amount of unused credit.

Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 1814

  • Certificate: shall mean the certificate issued by the Delaware State Historic Preservation Officer attesting that certified rehabilitation or, if applicable, phase thereof has been completed and that the documentation of qualified expenditures and project plans that would be required in order to qualify for tax credit under § 47 of the Internal Revenue Code (26 U. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 1812
  • Credit award: shall mean the amount of qualified expenditures as determined by the State Office as part of the Stage II Approval multiplied by the appropriate amount as determined in § 1813 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 1812
  • Division of Revenue: means the Division of Revenue of the Department of Finance of the State. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 502
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Person: shall include any individual; any form of company or corporation which is lawful within the State (including limited liability companies and S corporations), whether or not for profit; any form of partnership which is lawful within the State (including limited liability partnerships); whether or not for profit; any trust or estate; and any lawful joint venture. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 1812
  • Phased rehabilitation: shall mean any certified rehabilitation of a certified historic property reasonably expected to be completed in 2 or more distinct stages of development as more fully described in Treasury Regulation 1-48-12(b)(v) or any successor provision. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 1812
  • Property: shall mean real estate, and shall include any building or structure, including multiple-unit structures. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 1812
  • Resident curator: shall mean a person who has entered into a contractual agreement with the owner of a qualified property in which the person agrees to pay for full restoration of the owner's qualifying property in exchange for a life tenancy in the property without remunerative compensation to the owner for the life tenancy. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 1812
  • State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, The United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 502
  • State Office: shall mean the Delaware State Historic Preservation Office. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 1812
  • Tax: shall be deemed also to refer to license fees imposed under Part III of this title. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 502
  • Taxable: means any person, fiduciary, association of persons, syndicate, joint venture or copartnership subject to making return or to payment of tax imposed by this title. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 101
  • Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302

(b) Credits granted to or acquired by a pass-through entity created or recognized under Delaware law, or by multiple owners of property, if not transferred, sold or assigned, may be divided among the partners, members, shareholders or owners either according to the distributive shares of income of such entity or pursuant to an executed agreement among such partners, members, shareholders or owners if such agreement documents an alternate method of distribution.

(c) Any transferee, purchaser or assignee of tax credits under this subchapter may use such acquired credits to offset state income or franchise tax liabilities imposed upon such transferee, purchaser or assignee. To claim the state tax credit, the transferee, purchaser or assignee shall attach the certificate obtained by the transferor, seller or assignor in accordance with subsection (a) of this section to the Delaware tax return against which the credit is claimed and submit such tax return to the Division of Revenue or the Office of the State Bank Commissioner with respect to income taxes in this title and Title 5 franchise taxes, respectively.

(d) If the credit allowed under this section exceeds the transferee, purchaser or assignee’s tax due for the current tax year, the transferee, purchaser or assignee of the tax credit may carry forward such excess in accordance with § 1813 of this title.

(e) Credits issued to the initial assignee, or in the case of a tax-exempt assignee, to the first taxable transferee after the associated phase completion, shall be subject to revocation and repayment to the Delaware Division of Revenue or the Office of the State Bank Commissioner if, under regulations issued by the State Office, a phased rehabilitation is not completed by the agreed upon completion date demonstrates that the applicant for the credit award for the project is unable or unwilling to complete it or, in the event that the project does not meet the certification requirements previously agreed to with the State Office.

73 Del. Laws, c. 6, § ?3; 74 Del. Laws, c. 68, § ?107(F); 74 Del. Laws, c. 388, § ?5;

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