Arkansas Code
Subchapter 36 - New Markets Jobs Act of 2013
§ 15-4-3607. Recapture

The Arkansas Economic Development Commission shall recapture the tax credit allowed under this subchapter from the taxpayer that claimed the tax credit if:
(1)
(A) Any amount of a federal tax credit available with respect to a qualified equity investment that is eligible for a tax credit under this subchapter is recaptured under 26 U.S.C. § 45D, as it existed on January 1, 2013.
(B) If a recapture occurs under subdivision (1)(A) of this section, the commission's recapture shall be proportionate to the federal recapture with respect to the qualified equity investment;

(2)
(A) The issuer redeems or makes principal repayment with respect to a qualified equity investment before the seventh anniversary of the issuance of the qualified equity investment.
(B) If a recapture occurs under subdivision (2)(A) of this section, the commission's recapture shall be proportionate to the amount of the redemption or repayment with respect to the qualified equity investment;

(3)
(A) The issuer fails to:
(i) Invest an amount equal to eighty-five percent (85%) of the purchase price of the qualified equity investment in qualified low-income community investments in Arkansas within twelve (12) months of the issuance of the qualified equity investment; and
(ii) Maintain the minimum investment level required under subdivision (3)(A)(i) of this section until the last credit allowance date for the qualified equity investment.

(B)
(i) A qualified equity investment shall be considered held by an issuer even if a qualified low-income community investment has been sold or repaid if the issuer reinvests an amount equal to the capital returned to or recovered by the issuer from the original qualified low-income community investment, exclusive of any profits realized, in another qualified low-income community investment within twelve (12) months of the receipt of such returned capital.
(ii) Periodic amounts received during a calendar year as repayment of principal on a loan that is a qualified low-income community investment shall be treated as continuously invested in a qualified low-income community investment if the amounts are reinvested in one (1) or more qualified low-income community investments by the end of the following year.

(C) An issuer shall not be required to reinvest capital returned from a qualified low-income community investment, and the qualified low-income community investment shall be considered held by the issuer through the seventh anniversary of the qualified equity investment's issuance after the earlier of:
(i) The sixth anniversary of the credit allowance date of the qualified equity investment, the proceeds of which were used to make the qualified low-income community investment; or
(ii) The date by which a qualified community development entity has made qualified low-income community investments with the proceeds of such qualified equity investment on a cumulative basis equal to at least one hundred fifty percent (150%) of such proceeds; or

(4) At any time before the final credit allowance date of a qualified equity investment, the issuer uses the cash proceeds of the qualified equity investment to make qualified low-income community investments in any one (1) or more qualified active low-income community businesses, including without limitation affiliated qualified active low-income community businesses and excluding reinvestments of capital returned or repaid with respect to earlier qualified equity investments in the qualified active low-income community business and its affiliates in excess of twenty-five percent (25%) of the cash proceeds of all qualified equity investments issued by the issuer under this section.