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2005 Idaho Code - 63-2902 — DEFINITIONS
TITLE 63 REVENUE AND TAXATION CHAPTER 29 THE IDAHO CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS INCENTIVE ACT OF 2005 63-2902. DEFINITIONS. (1) The definitions contained in the Idaho income tax act, shall apply to this chapter unless modified in this chapter or unless the context clearly requires another definition. (2) As used in this chapter: (a) "Commission" means the Idaho state tax commission. (b) "Headquarters or administrative facilities" means facility or facilities, including related parking facilities, where corporate staff employees are physically employed, and where the majority of the company's services are handled either on a regional or national basis. Company services may include: accounts receivable and payable, accounting, data processing, distribution management, employee benefit plan, financial and securities accounting, information technology, insurance, legal, merchandising, payroll, personnel, purchasing/procurement, planning, reporting and compliance, tax, treasury, or other headquarters-related services. (c) "Idaho income tax act" means chapter 30, title 63, Idaho Code. (d) "Investment in new plant" means investment in headquarters or administrative facilities, that are: (i) Qualified investments; or (ii) Buildings or structural components of buildings. (e) "New employee": (i) Means an individual, employed primarily within the project site by the taxpayer, subject to Idaho income tax withholding whether or not any amounts are required to be withheld, covered for unemployment insurance purposes under chapter 13, title 72, Idaho Code, and who was eligible to receive employer provided coverage under a health benefit plan as described in section 41-4703, Idaho Code, during the taxable year. A person shall be deemed to be so employed if such person performs duties on a regular full-time basis. (ii) The number of employees employed primarily within the project site by the taxpayer, during any taxable year for a taxpayer shall be the mathematical average of the number of such employees reported to the Idaho department of commerce and labor for employment security purposes during the twelve (12) months of the taxable year which qualified under paragraph (e)(i) of this subsection (2). In the event the business is in operation for less than the entire taxable year, the number of employees of the taxpayer for the year shall be the average number actually employed during the months of operation, provided that the qualifications of paragraph (e)(i) of this subsection (2) are met. (iii) Existing employees of the taxpayer who obtain new qualifying positions within the project site and employees transferred from a related taxpayer or acquired as part of the acquisition of a trade or business from another taxpayer within the prior twelve (12) months are not included in this definition unless the new position or transfer creates a net new job in Idaho. (f) "Project period" means the period of time beginning at the earlier of a physical change to the project site or the first employment of new employees located in Idaho who are related to the activities at the project site, but no earlier than January 1, 2005, and ending when the facilities constituting the project are placed in service, but no later than December 31, 2009. (g) "Project site" means an area or areas at which headquarters and headquarters facilities are located and at which the tax incentive criteria have been or will be met and which are either: (i) A single geographic area located in this state at which the headquarters or administrative facilities owned or leased by the taxpayer are located; or (ii) One (1) or more geographic areas located in this state if eighty percent (80%) or more of the investment required by subsection (2)(j)(i) of this section is made at one (1) of the areas. (iii) The project site must be identified and described to the commission by a taxpayer subject to tax under the Idaho income tax act, in the form and manner prescribed by the commission. (h) "Qualified investment" shall be defined as in section 63-3029B, Idaho Code. (i) "Recapture period" means: (i) In the case of credits described in sections 63-2903 and 63-2904, Idaho Code, the same period for which a recapture of investment tax credit under section 63-3029B, Idaho Code, is required; or (ii) In the case of credits described in section 63-2905, Idaho Code, five (5) years from the date the project period ends. (j) "Tax incentive criteria" means a taxpayer meeting at a project site the requirements of both subparagraphs (i) and (ii) of this paragraph (j). (i) During the project period, making capital investments in new plant of at least fifty million dollars ($50,000,000) at the project site. (ii) During a period of time beginning on January 1, 2005, and ending at the conclusion of the project period: 1. Increasing employment at the project site by at least five hundred (500) new employees: (A) Each of whom must earn at least twenty-four dollars and four cents ($24.04) per hour worked during the taxpayer's taxable year; or (B) Each of whom is part of a group of five hundred (500) or more employees at the project site which group on average earns at least twenty-eight dollars and eighty-five cents ($28.85) per hour worked during the taxpayer's taxable year. Calculation of the group average earnings may not include amounts paid to any employee earning more than ninety-six dollars and fifteen cents ($96.15) or less than fifteen dollars and fifty cents ($15.50) per hour worked during the taxpayer's taxable year. (C) Earnings calculated pursuant to subparagraph (ii) of this paragraph (j) shall include income upon which Idaho income tax withholding is required under section 63-3035, Idaho Code, but shall not include income such as stock options or restricted stock grants. (D) For purposes of determining whether the increased employment threshold has been met, employment at the project site shall be determined by calculating the increase of such new employees reported to the Idaho department of commerce and labor for employment security purposes over the employees so reported as of the beginning of the project period or no earlier than January 1, 2005, whichever is larger; and 2. Maintaining net increased employment in Idaho required by subparagraph (ii)1. of this paragraph (j) during the remainder of the project period. (k) "Taxpayer," for purposes of paragraphs (j) and (e) of this subsection (2), means either: (i) A single taxpayer; or (ii) In the context of a unitary group filing a combined report under section 63-3027(t), Idaho Code, all members of a unitary group includable in a combined report for the tax years in which the credit provided for by this chapter may be claimed. For all other purposes, the terms of section 63-3009, Idaho Code, and section 63-3027(t)(1), Idaho Code, apply to the meaning of "taxpayer."
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