3. a. A limited liability company or foreign limited liability company that is classified as a partnership for federal income tax purposes may obtain and retain in its records for inspection by the director the consent of each of its members that are not corporations exempt from tax pursuant to section 3 of P.L.1945, c.162 (C. 54:10A-3), or individuals, trusts or estates subject to the “New Jersey Gross Income Tax Act”, N.J.S. 54A:1-1 et seq., to the following jurisdictional requirements in a form prescribed by the Director of the Division of Taxation: that this State shall have the right and jurisdiction to tax and collect the tax, hereby imposed, on the entire net income of the member (1) based upon combining the respective numerators and denominators of the allocation fractions of the member with the member’s share of the numerators and denominators of the limited liability company or foreign limited liability company to determine an allocation factor to be applied to the member’s entire net income, including the member’s distributive share of the company income, to determine the portion of the member’s entire net income allocated to this State if the relationship between the member and limited liability company or foreign limited liability company is unitary, or (2) based upon separately using the allocation fractions of the limited liability company or foreign limited liability company to determine the allocation factor to be applied to the member’s distributive share of the company income, using the allocation fractions of the member to determine the allocation factor to be applied to the member’s entire net income excluding the member’s distributive share of the income of the limited liability company or foreign limited liability company, and then combining those allocated amounts of net income to determine the portion of the member’s entire net income allocated to this State if the relationship between the member and limited liability company or foreign limited liability company is not unitary.

b. A limited liability company or foreign limited liability company that is not a qualified investment partnership and that has not obtained and retained the written consent of one or more of its members that are not corporations exempt from tax pursuant to section 3 of P.L.1945, c.162 (C. 54:10A-3), or individuals, trusts or estates subject to the “New Jersey Gross Income Tax Act”, N.J.S. 54A:1-1 et seq., shall, on or before the 15th day of the fourth month succeeding the close of each privilege period, remit a payment of tax equal to the nonconsenting members’ share of the entire net income of the limited liability company or foreign limited liability company for that privilege period, multiplied by an allocation factor determined, pursuant to section 6 of P.L.1945, c.162 (C. 54:10A-6), based on the allocation fractions of the limited liability company or foreign limited liability company for that privilege period, and multiplied by the maximum rate set forth at paragraph (1) of subsection (c) of section 5 of P.L.1945, c.162 (C. 54:10A-5) for that privilege period. The limited liability company or foreign limited liability company shall have the right, but not the obligation, to recover from the nonconsenting members such payments made by the company.

c. An amount of tax paid by a limited liability company or foreign limited liability company pursuant to subsection b. of this section attributable to a nonconsenting member shall be credited to the member as of the date of its receipt by the director.

L.2001,c.136,s.3.