5. a. The qualified investment in property purchased for business relocation or expansion shall be the applicable percentage of the cost of each property purchased for business relocation or expansion which is placed in service or use in this State by the taxpayer during the tax year. Provided, that only the cost of property purchased for business relocation or expansion placed in service or use in this State during the tax year for which the average value of the taxpayer’s real and tangible personal property within the State as shall be determined pursuant to subsection (A) of section 6 of P.L.1945, c.162 (C. 54:10A-6), is greater than that average value for the previous tax year, shall be considered in determining qualified investment.

b. For the purpose of subsection a., the applicable percentage of any cost of property purchased for business relocation or expansion shall be determined under the following table:

The applicable

If property has a: percentage is:

three year recovery period ……………….. 35%

five year recovery period ………………… 70%

seven year or more recovery period …………. 100%

The recovery period of any property, for purposes of this section, shall be determined as of the date such property is first placed in service or use in this State by the taxpayer, determined in accordance with section 168 of the federal Internal Revenue Code of 1986, 26 U.S.C. § 168.

c. For purposes of subsection a., the cost of each property purchased for business relocation or expansion shall be determined under the following restrictions:

(1) cost shall not include the value of property given in trade or exchange for the property purchased for business relocation or expansion;

(2) if property is damaged or destroyed by fire, flood, storm or other casualty, or is stolen, the cost of replacement property shall not include any insurance proceeds received in compensation for the loss;

(3) in the case of self-constructed property, the cost thereof shall be the amount properly charged to the capital account for depreciation in accordance with federal income tax law; and

(4) the cost of property used by the taxpayer out-of-State and then brought into this State shall be determined based on the remaining recovery period of the property at the time it is placed in service or use in this State, and the cost shall be the original cost of the property to the taxpayer less straight line depreciation allowable for the tax years or portions thereof the taxpayer used the property outside this State.

(5) The cost of equipment acquired by written lease is the minimum amount required by the agreement, agreements, contract or contracts to be paid over the term of the lease, provided however, that the minimum amount shall not include any amount required to be paid, as determined by the director, after the expiration of the recovery period of the equipment.

d. No amount of cost for property the cost of which qualifies for the credit allowable under section 42 of P.L.1987, c.102 (C. 54:10A-5.3), or for the credits allowed under the “Manufacturing Equipment and Employment Investment Tax Credit Act,” P.L.1993, c.171 (C. 54:10A-5.16 et al.), shall be allowed as qualified investment under this section.

L.1993,c.170,s.5.