§ 135.130 RSMo — Transfer of business facility, all or part — apportionment of tax credit — estate of taxpayer entitled to credit and distributee of estate also entitled to credit

1. If a taxpayer, hereafter referred to in this section as "transferor", shall have established a new business facility and, prior to the expiration of the ten-year period during which the credit allowed by section 135.110 may be claimed by the transferor, all or a portion of such new business facility is acquired by, or leased to, any other taxpayer, hereafter referred to in this section as "transferee", the transferor shall allow the transferee to claim such credit as provided in subsection 2 of this section.

2. If all or a portion of the new business facility is acquired by, or leased to, the transferee, the portion thereof so acquired by, or leased to, the transferee shall be considered a new business facility in the hands of the transferee. In such event, the transferee shall be entitled to a credit, computed in accordance with section 135.110 , with respect to the portion of the new business facility held by it. Such credit shall be allowed for the remaining portion of the ten-year period during which the transferor could have claimed such credit if all or a portion of the new business facility had not been acquired by, or leased to, the transferee. The portion, if any, of the new business facility retained by the transferor shall continue to be a new business facility in the hands of the transferor and it shall be entitled to the credit allowed by section 135.110 for the remaining portion of such ten-year period.

3. The transferor shall notify the director of economic development of the transferor's intentions to transfer the rights to claim such credit to the transferee by written statement attached to the tax credit application for the taxable year in which the new business facility is acquired by, or leased to, the transferee, setting forth such other information as the director of economic development may, by rules and regulations, require.

4. If an individual taxpayer entitled to the credit allowed by section 135.110 shall die prior to the expiration of the ten-year period during which such taxpayer is entitled to such credit and the new business facility with respect to which such credit was claimed passes to the estate of the deceased taxpayer, such estate shall be entitled to a credit with respect to such new business facility, and upon distribution of the new business facility, or a portion thereof, to a distributee of such estate the credit with respect to such new business facility, or portion thereof, such distributee shall be entitled to a credit with respect to such new business facility or portion thereof.