Credit for recycling and litter prevention program donations

There is hereby allowed a credit against the tax imposed under sections 5733.06, 5733.065, and 5733.066 of the Revised Code. The credit shall equal the lesser of fifty per cent of any cash donations made during the taxable year by the taxpayer to an Ohio corporation organized prior to January 1, 1987, whose sole purpose is to promote and encourage recycling and that has been determined by the internal revenue service to be a nonprofit corporation regardless of whether the nonprofit corporation received a grant under section 3736.05 of the Revised Code, or to municipal corporations, counties, townships, park districts, and boards of education that received grants pursuant to that section, or one-half of the amount of the taxpayer's additional tax liability for the tax year resulting from the additional rates imposed by sections 5733.065 and 5733.066 of the Revised Code to provide funding for recycling and litter prevention under Chapter 3736. of the Revised Code. The taxpayer shall claim the nonrefundable credit in the order required under section 5733.98 of the Revised Code.

The tax commissioner may require the taxpayer to furnish such information as is necessary to support a claim for a credit under this section, and no credit shall be allowed unless the information is provided.