36 OK Stat § 36-625 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 36. Insurance|§36-625. Credit against tax by investment in Oklahoma securities.

|A. If the annual statement of any insurance company or other entity taxed pursuant to the provisions of Section 624 of this title covering the period of time from January 1, 1988 through June 30, 1988, shows it to have investments at the close of said period of time in Oklahoma securities, as hereinafter defined, of as much as two percent (2%) but less than twelve percent (12%) of its admitted assets, it will be entitled to a credit on the premium tax levied on premiums collected during said period of time by paragraph 2 of Section 624 of this article so as to reduce the same to a tax of two and three-fourths percent (2 3/4%); if said investments are as much as twelve percent (12%) but less than fourteen percent (14%) of said assets its annual premium tax shall be reduced to a tax of two and one-half percent (2 1/2%); if said investments are as much as fourteen percent (14%) but less than sixteen percent (16%) of said assets its annual premium tax shall be reduced to a tax of two and one-fourth percent (2 1/4%); if said investments are as much as sixteen percent (16%) but less than eighteen percent (18%) of said assets its annual premium tax shall be reduced to a tax of two percent (2%); if said investments are as much as eighteen percent (18%) but less than twenty percent (20%) of said assets its annual premium tax shall be reduced to a tax of one and three-fourths percent (1 3/4%); if said investments are as much as twenty percent (20%) but less than twenty-two percent (22%) of said assets its annual premium tax shall be reduced to a tax of one and one-half percent (1 1/2%); if said investments are as much as twenty-two percent (22%) but less than twenty-four percent (24%) of said assets its annual premium tax shall be reduced to a tax of one and one-fourth percent (1 1/4%); if said investments are as much as twenty-four percent (24%) but less than twenty-six percent (26%) of said assets its annual premium tax shall be reduced to a tax of one percent (1%); if said investments are as much as twenty-six percent (26%) percent but less than twenty-eight percent (28%) of said assets its annual premium tax shall be reduced to a tax of three-fourths of one percent (3/4 of 1%); if said investments are as much as twenty-eight percent (28%) but less than thirty percent (30%) of said assets its annual premium tax shall be reduced to a tax of one-half of one percent (1/2 of 1%); if said investments are as much as thirty percent (30%) of said assets its annual premium tax shall be reduced to no percent (0%). |B. If the annual statement of any insurance company or other entity taxed pursuant to the provisions of Section 624 of this title covering calendar year 1988 shows it to have investments in Oklahoma securities, as hereinafter defined, for the period of time beginning July 1, 1988 through December 31, 1988, of as much as two percent (2%) but less than twelve percent (12%) of its admitted assets, it will be entitled to a credit on the premium tax levied by paragraph 2 of Section 624 of this article so as to reduce the same to a tax of two and three-fourths percent (2 3/4%); if said investments are as much as twelve percent (12%) but less than fourteen percent (14%) of said assets its annual premium tax shall be reduced to a tax of two and one-half percent (2 1/2%); if said investments are as much as fourteen percent (14%) but less than sixteen percent (16%) of said assets its annual premium tax shall be reduced to a tax of two and one-fourth percent (2 1/4%); if said investments are as much as sixteen percent (16%) but less than eighteen percent (18%) of said assets its annual premium tax shall be reduced to a tax of two percent (2%); if said investments are as much as eighteen percent (18%) but less than twenty percent (20%) of said assets its annual premium tax shall be reduced to a tax of one and three-fourths percent (1 3/4%); if said investments are as much as twenty percent (20%) but less than twenty-two percent (22%) of said assets its annual premium tax shall be reduced to a tax of one and one-half percent (1 1/2%); if said investments are as much as twenty-two percent (22%) but less than twenty-four percent (24%) of said assets its annual premium tax shall be reduced to a tax of one and one-fourth percent (1 1/4%); if said investments are as much as twenty-four percent (24%) of said assets its annual premium tax shall be reduced to a tax of one percent (1%). The credits authorized by this subsection and the credits authorized by Section 624.1 of this title shall not reduce the premium tax rate for premiums collected on or after July 1, 1988 through December 31, 1988, of an insurance company or other entity subject to said tax to less than one percent (1%).C. Beginning with the taxes payable for calendar year 1989, the premium tax levied by Section 624 of this title shall not be reduced by the credits for investment of assets provided for in this section.D. Oklahoma securities as used in this section shall mean real estate in this state, bonds of the State of Oklahoma, bonds or interest-bearing warrants of any county, city, town, school district or municipality or subdivision of the State of Oklahoma, notes or bonds secured by mortgages or other liens on real estate located in the State of Oklahoma, cash deposits in regularly established national or state banks, Federal Savings and Loan Associations, Federal Savings Banks, or any institution insured by either the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, in this state on the basis of the average monthly deposits throughout the calendar year, policy loans secured by the legal reserve on policies insuring residents of the State of Oklahoma, and any other Oklahoma property or securities in which by the laws of the State of Oklahoma such insurance companies may invest their funds.Provided, that if any insurance company, copartnership, association, interinsurance exchange, person, insurer, nonprofit hospital service and medical indemnity corporation, or health maintenance organization secures such a credit prior to such a holding, it shall, within ninety (90) days after the mailing thereto by the Insurance Commissioner of a registered notice of said holding and the amount of said credit, pay said amount to the Insurance Commissioner, and if it fails to do so it shall be the duty of the Attorney General to institute proceedings in the name of the State of Oklahoma on the relation of the Insurance Commissioner in a court of competent jurisdiction to collect said amount.Amended by Laws 1985, c. 179, § 2, emerg. eff. June 21, 1985; Laws 1988, c. 83, § 7, emerg. eff. March 25, 1988.