Corporation business tax benefit certificate transfer program

4. a. The Director of the Division of Taxation in the Department of the Treasury shall establish a corporation business tax benefit certificate transfer program to allow a person who performs a remediation in this State with remediation tax credits otherwise allowable, to surrender those tax benefits for use by other corporation business taxpayers in this State, provided that the taxpayer receiving the surrendered tax benefits is not affiliated with a corporation that is surrendering its tax benefits. For the purposes of this section, the test of affiliation is whether the same entity directly or indirectly owns or controls 5% or more of the voting rights or 5% or more of the value of all classes of stock of both the taxpayer receiving the benefits and a corporation that is surrendering the benefits. The tax benefits may be used on the corporation business tax returns to be filed by those taxpayers. b. The director shall be authorized to approve the transfer of no more than $12,000,000 of tax benefits in each of the following State fiscal years: 2005, 2006, and 2007. The maximum value of surrendered tax benefits that a corporation shall be permitted to surrender over the three-year period pursuant to the program is $4,000,000. Applications must be received on or before February 1, 2005 and each February 1 thereafter. c. The Director of the Division of Taxation in the Department of the Treasury, shall review and approve applications by taxpayers under the Corporation Business Tax Act (1945), P.L.1945, c.162 (C.54:10A-1 et seq.), to acquire surrendered tax benefits approved pursuant to subsection b. of this section which shall be issued in the form of corporation business tax benefit transfer certificates. No taxpayer who is liable pursuant to paragraph (1) of subsection c. of P.L.1976, c.141 (C.58:10-23.11) for contamination at any site in the State may acquire a surrendered tax benefit pursuant to this section. The applications shall be submitted and the division shall approve or disapprove the applications.