Arkansas Code of 1987 (2023) › Title 15 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (§§ 15-1-101 — 15-76-324) › Subtitle 1 - DEVELOPMENT OF ECONOMIC AND NATURAL RESOURCES GENERALLY (§§ 15-1-101 — 15-14-108) › Chapter 4 - DEVELOPMENT OF BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY GENERALLY (§§ 15-4-101 — 15-4-3910) › Subchapter 36 - NEW MARKETS JOBS ACT OF 2013 (§§ 15-4-3601 — 15-4-3614) › Section 15-4-3607 - Recapture

The Arkansas Economic Development Commission shall recapture the tax credit allowed under this subchapter from the taxpayer that claimed the tax credit if:
(1)
(A)
Any amount of a federal tax credit available with respect to a qualified equity investment that is eligible for a tax credit under this subchapter is recaptured under
26 U.S.C. § 45D
, as it existed on January 1, 2013.
(B)
If a recapture occurs under subdivision (1)(A) of this section, the commission's recapture shall be proportionate to the federal recapture with respect to the qualified equity investment;
(2)
(A)
The issuer redeems or makes principal repayment with respect to a qualified equity investment before the seventh anniversary of the issuance of the qualified equity investment.
(B)
If a recapture occurs under subdivision (2)(A) of this section, the commission's recapture shall be proportionate to the amount of the redemption or repayment with respect to the qualified equity investment;
(3)
(A)
The issuer fails to:
(i)
Invest an amount equal to eighty-five percent (85%) of the purchase price of the qualified equity investment in qualified low-income community investments in Arkansas within twelve (12) months of the issuance of the qualified equity investment; and
(ii)
Maintain the minimum investment level required under subdivision (3)(A)(i) of this section until the last credit allowance date for the qualified equity investment.
(B)
(i)
A qualified equity investment shall be considered held by an issuer even if a qualified low-income community investment has been sold or repaid if the issuer reinvests an amount equal to the capital returned to or recovered by the issuer from the original qualified low-income community investment, exclusive of any profits realized, in another qualified low-income community investment within twelve (12) months of the receipt of such returned capital.
(ii)
Periodic amounts received during a calendar year as repayment of principal on a loan that is a qualified low-income community investment shall be treated as continuously invested in a qualified low-income community investment if the amounts are reinvested in one (1) or more qualified low-income community investments by the end of the following year.
(C)
An issuer shall not be required to reinvest capital returned from a qualified low-income community investment, and the qualified low-income community investment shall be considered held by the issuer through the seventh anniversary of the qualified equity investment's issuance after the earlier of:
(i)
The sixth anniversary of the credit allowance date of the qualified equity investment, the proceeds of which were used to make the qualified low-income community investment; or
(ii)
The date by which a qualified community development entity has made qualified low-income community investments with the proceeds of such qualified equity investment on a cumulative basis equal to at least one hundred fifty percent (150%) of such proceeds; or
(4)
At any time before the final credit allowance date of a qualified equity investment, the issuer uses the cash proceeds of the qualified equity investment to make qualified low-income community investments in any one (1) or more qualified active low-income community businesses, including without limitation affiliated qualified active low-income community businesses and excluding reinvestments of capital returned or repaid with respect to earlier qualified equity investments in the qualified active low-income community business and its affiliates in excess of twenty-five percent (25%) of the cash proceeds of all qualified equity investments issued by the issuer under this section.
Added by Act 2013, No. 1474,§ 1, eff. 4/22/2013.