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<section article="gec" article_name="Economic Development" number="10-4A-12" title_number="10" title_name="Statewide Development Resources and Revenue Authorities" subtitle_number="4A" subtitle_name="Invest Maryland Program">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Subject to the restriction in paragraph (2) of this subsection, a purchaser may claim the premium tax credit on a premium tax return filed after December 31, 2014, for a taxable year that begins on or after January 1, 2014.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>In each calendar year from 2015 through 2019, a purchaser may claim up to 20% of the premium tax credit allocated to that purchaser.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The credit to be applied against insurance premium tax liability in any 1 year may not exceed the insurance premium tax liability of the purchaser for that taxable year.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Any unused credit against insurance premium tax liability may be:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>carried forward indefinitely until the premium tax credits are used; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>used by the purchaser without restriction during any calendar year after 2019.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>On 30 days’ advance notice to the Corporation, premium tax credits allocated to a purchaser under this subtitle may be transferred without further restriction to any other entity that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>meets the definition of a purchaser;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>is in good standing with the Maryland Insurance Administration; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>agrees to assume all of the transferor’s obligations under the Program.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A purchaser claiming a credit against insurance premium tax liability earned through an investment under the Program is not required to pay any additional tax as a result of claiming the credit.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>A purchaser is not required to reduce the amount of premium tax included by the purchaser in connection with rate–making for any insurance contract written in the State because of a reduction in the purchaser’s insurance premium tax derived from the credit granted under this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
</section>
