(a) Any business receiving tax incentives due to its location within a River Edge Redevelopment Zone must annually report to the Department of Revenue information reasonably required by the Department to enable the Department of Revenue to verify and calculate the total tax benefits for property taxes and taxes imposed by the State that are received by the business, broken down by incentive category. To the extent that a business receiving tax incentives has obtained a River Edge Building Materials Exemption Certificate, that business is required to report those building materials exemption benefits only under subsection (a-5) of this Section. No additional reporting for those building materials exemption benefits is required under this subsection (a). Reports will be due no later than May 31 of each year and shall cover the previous calendar year. The first report will be for the 2012 calendar year and will be due no later than May 31, 2013. Failure to report data may result in ineligibility to receive incentives. The Department, in consultation with the Department of Revenue, is authorized to adopt rules governing ineligibility to receive exemptions, including the length of ineligibility. Factors to be considered in determining whether a business is ineligible shall include, but are not limited to, prior compliance with the reporting requirements, cooperation in discontinuing and correcting violations, the extent of the violation, and whether the violation was willful or inadvertent.
     (a-5) Each contractor or other entity that has been issued a River Edge Building Materials Exemption Certificate under Section 2-54 of the Retailers’ Occupation Tax Act shall annually report to the Department of Revenue the total tax benefits for taxes imposed by the State that are received under River Edge building materials exemption. Reports shall contain information reasonably required by the Department of Revenue to enable it to verify and calculate the total tax benefits for taxes imposed by the State, and shall be broken down by River Edge Redevelopment Zone. Reports are due no later than May 31 of each year and shall cover the previous calendar year. The first report will be for the 2013 calendar year and will be due no later than May 31, 2014. Failure to report data may result in revocation of the River Edge Building Materials Exemption Certificate issued to the contractor or other entity. The Department of Revenue is authorized to adopt rules governing revocation determinations, including the length of revocations. Factors to be considered in revocations shall include, but are not limited to, prior compliance with the reporting requirements, cooperation in discontinuing and correcting violations, and whether the certificate was used unlawfully during the preceding year.
     (b) Each person required to file a return under the Gas Revenue Tax Act, the Gas Use Tax Act, the Electricity Excise Tax Act, or the Telecommunications Excise Tax Act shall file, on or before May 31 of each year, a report with the Department of Revenue, in the manner and form required by the Department of Revenue, containing information reasonably required by the Department of Revenue to enable the Department of Revenue to verify and calculate the amount of the deduction for taxes imposed by the State that is taken under each Act, respectively, due to the location of a business in a River Edge Redevelopment Zone. The report shall be itemized by business and the business location address.
     (c) Employers shall report their job creation, retention, and capital investment numbers within the River Edge Redevelopment Zone annually to the Department of Revenue no later than May 31 of each calendar year.
     (d) The Department of Revenue will aggregate and collect the tax, job, and capital investment data by River Edge Redevelopment Zone and report this information, formatted to exclude company-specific proprietary information, to the Department by August 1, 2013, and by August 1 of every calendar year thereafter. The Department will include this information in their required reports under Section 6 of this Act.
     (e) The Department of Revenue, in its discretion, may require that the reports filed under this Section be submitted electronically.
     (f) The Department of Revenue shall have the authority to adopt rules as are reasonable and necessary to implement the provisions of this Section.