§287.756. Tax credit for environmental equipment purchases
A. Any business entity authorized to do business in the state of Louisiana and subject to the state corporation income tax imposed by this Part, except a corporation classified under the Internal Revenue Code as a Subchapter S Corporation, shall be allowed a tax credit for the purchase of environmental equipment designed to recover or recycle chlorofluorocarbons used as refrigerants in commercial, home, and automobile air-conditioning systems, refrigeration units, and industrial cooling applications.
B. The tax credit shall be twenty percent of the purchase price of the equipment if paid for in a single taxable year. If the equipment purchased is financed over two or more taxable years, the tax credit in a taxable year shall be twenty percent of that portion of the original purchase price paid in that taxable year.
C. All environmental equipment for which a tax credit is sought shall conform with technical standards set by the secretary of the Department of Environmental Quality. The secretary of the Department of Revenue shall utilize those standards in the promulgation of such rules and regulations as may be deemed necessary to carry out the purposes of this Section.
D. The tax credit allowed by this Section shall apply only to equipment purchased between July 1, 1989 and December 31, 1991. The credit for equipment purchased prior to January 1, 1991 shall be claimed on either an amended return for the applicable tax year or in the first taxable year filing following January 1, 1991.
E. The tax credit allowed by this Section shall not exceed the total income tax liability of the corporation.
Acts 1991, No. 312, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1991; Acts 1997, No. 658, §2.
{{NOTE: SEE ALSO R.S. 47:297(G).}}
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