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SECTION 4-D
) Credit relating to the annual increase in certain payments to a landlord by a taxpayer relocating industrial and commercial employment ...
General City Model 772/66 (GCM) CHAPTER 772, PART 2
§ (4-d) Credit relating to the annual increase in certain payments to
a landlord by a taxpayer relocating industrial and commercial employment
opportunities. (1) In addition to any other credit allowed by this
section, a taxpayer shall be allowed a credit against the tax imposed by
this part to be credited or refunded, without interest, in the manner
hereinafter provided in this section.

(A) Where a taxpayer shall have relocated to the city from a location
outside the state, and by such relocation shall have created a minimum
of one hundred industrial or commercial employment opportunities; and
where such taxpayer shall have entered into a written lease for the
relocation premises, the terms of which lease provide for increased
additional payments to the landlord which are based solely and directly
upon any increase or addition in real estate taxes imposed on the leased
premises, the taxpayer upon approval and certification by the industrial
and commercial incentive board as hereinafter provided shall be entitled
to a credit against the tax imposed by this section. The amount of such
credit shall be: An amount equal to the annual increased payments
actually made by the taxpayer to the landlord which are solely and
directly attributable to an increase or addition to the real estate tax
imposed upon the leased premises. Such credit shall be allowed only to
the extent that the taxpayer has not otherwise claimed said amount as a
deduction against the tax imposed by this section.

The industrial and commercial incentive board in approving and
certifying to the qualifications of the taxpayer to receive the tax
credit provided for herein shall first determine that the applicant has
met the requirements of this section, and further, that the granting of
the tax credit to the applicant is in the "public interest." In
determining that the granting of the tax credit is in the public
interest, the board shall make affirmative findings that: the granting
of the tax credit to the applicant will not effect an undue hardship on
similar taxpayers already located within the city; the existence of this
tax incentive has been instrumental in bringing about the relocation of
the applicant to the city; and the granting of the tax credit will
foster the economic recovery and economic development of the city.

The tax credit, if approved and certified by the industrial and
commercial incentive board, must be utilized annually by the taxpayer
for the length of the term of the lease or for a period not to exceed
ten years from the date of relocation, whichever period is shorter.

(B) Definitions: When used in this section, "Employment opportunity"
means the creation of a full time position of gainful employment for an
industrial or commercial employee and the actual hiring of such employee
for the said position.

"Industrial employee" means one engaged in the manufacture or
assembling of tangible goods or the processing of raw materials.

"Commercial employee" means one engaged in the buying, selling or
otherwise providing of goods or services other than on a retail basis.

"Retail" means the selling or otherwise disposing or furnishing of
tangible goods or services directly to the utlimate user or consumer.

"Full time position" means the hiring of an industrial or commercial
employee in a position of gainful employment where the number of hours
worked by such employee is not less than thirty hours during any given
work week.

"Industrial and commercial incentive board" means the board created
pursuant to section four hundred eighty-nine-nn of the real property tax
law.

(2) The credit allowed under this section for any taxable year shall
be deemed to be an overpayment of tax by the taxpayer to be credited or
refunded in accordance with the provisions of section seventy-seven of
this title.

(3) Where the taxpayer receives a refund or credit of any tax imposed
under section eleven hundred seven of the tax law for which the taxpayer
had claimed a credit under the provisions of this section in a prior
taxable year, the amount of such tax refund or credit shall be added to
the tax imposed by section three of this part, and such amount shall be
subtracted in computing entire net income for the taxable year.