I. An investment tax credit equal to 75 percent of the contribution made to the authority during the contributor's tax year shall be allowed against any of the following individually or in combination:
      (a) Taxes imposed by RSA 77-A.
      (b) Taxes imposed by RSA 400-A.
      (c) Taxes imposed by RSA 77-E.
   II. Credits provided by this section applied against the liabilities imposed by RSA 400-A and RSA 77-E shall be deemed to be taxes paid for the purpose of RSA 77-A:5, III and X, respectively.
   III. The credit or any unused portion thereof may be carried forward for no more than 5 succeeding years, but shall not exceed $1,000,000 in any given tax year.
   IV. (a) The credit provided by this section shall be available to contributors on or after contributions for which credit is to be taken are actually received by the authority.
      (b) Contributions received by the authority for which credit is to be taken shall not exceed $5,000,000 in any state fiscal year. Contributions received by the authority in excess of $5,000,000 in any state fiscal year shall not be eligible for credit in such fiscal year but may be carried forward to the next succeeding fiscal year or years and shall be given priority in determining the total contributions eligible for credit in such fiscal year.
   V. Estimated tax payments under RSA 400-A:32 due and payable after the date of contribution to the authority may be reduced by the credit allowable under this section.
Source. 1998, 338:3, eff. July 1, 1999.