Eligible employee training costs tax credit

# (A)

As used in this section:

# (1)

"Eligible employee" and "eligible training costs" have the same meanings as in section 5733.42 of the Revised Code.

# (2)

"Tax assessed under this chapter" means, in the case of a dealer in intangibles, the tax assessed under sections 5725.13 to 5725.17 of the Revised Code and, in the case of a domestic insurance company, the taxes assessed under sections 5725.18 to 5725.26 of the Revised Code.

# (3)

"Taxpayer" means a dealer in intangibles or a domestic insurance company subject to a tax assessed under this chapter.

# (4)

"Credit period" means, in the case of a dealer in intangibles, the calendar year ending on the thirty-first day of December next preceding the day the report is required to be returned under section 5725.14 of the Revised Code and, in the case of a domestic insurance company, the calendar year ending on the thirty-first day of December next preceding the day the annual statement is required to be returned under section 5725.18 or 5725.181 of the Revised Code.

# (B)

There is hereby allowed a nonrefundable credit against the tax imposed under this chapter for a taxpayer for which a tax credit certificate is issued under section 5733.42 of the Revised Code. The credit may be claimed for credit periods beginning on or after January 1, 2003, and ending on or before December 31, 2007. The amount of the credit for the credit period beginning on January 1, 2003, shall equal one-half of the average of the eligible training costs paid or incurred by the taxpayer during calendar years 1998, 1999, and 2000, not to exceed one thousand dollars for each eligible employee on account of whom eligible training costs were paid or incurred by the taxpayer. The amount of the credit for the credit period beginning on January 1, 2004, shall equal one-half of the average of the eligible training costs paid or incurred by the taxpayer during calendar years 2002, 2003, and 2004, not to exceed one thousand dollars for each eligible employee on account of whom eligible training costs were paid or incurred by the taxpayer. The amount of the credit for the credit period beginning on January 1, 2005, shall equal one-half of the average of the eligible training costs paid or incurred by the taxpayer during calendar years 2003, 2004, and 2005, not to exceed one thousand dollars for each eligible employee on account of whom eligible training costs were paid or incurred by the taxpayer. The amount of the credit for the credit period beginning on January 1, 2006, shall equal one-half of the average of the eligible training costs paid or incurred by the taxpayer during calendar years 2004, 2005, and 2006, not to exceed one thousand dollars for each eligible employee on account of whom eligible training costs were paid or incurred by the taxpayer. The amount of the credit for the credit period beginning on January 1, 2007, shall equal one-half of the average of the eligible training costs paid or incurred by the taxpayer during calendar years 2005, 2006, and 2007, not to exceed one thousand dollars for each eligible employee on account of whom eligible training costs were paid or incurred by the taxpayer.

The credit claimed by a taxpayer each credit period shall not exceed one hundred thousand dollars.

A taxpayer shall apply to the director of job and family services for a tax credit certificate in the manner prescribed by division (C) of section 5733.42 of the Revised Code. Divisions (C) to (H) of that section govern the tax credit allowed by this section, except that "credit period" shall be substituted for "tax year with respect to a calendar year" wherever that phrase appears in those divisions and that a taxpayer under this section shall be considered a taxpayer for the purposes of that section.

A taxpayer may carry forward the credit allowed under this section to the extent that the credit exceeds the taxpayer's tax due for the credit period. The taxpayer may carry the excess credit forward for three credit periods following the credit period for which the credit is first claimed under this section. The credit allowed by this section is in addition to any credit allowed under section 5729.031 of the Revised Code.