77-27,195 Report; contents.

77-27,195. Report; contents.(1) The Tax Commissioner shall prepare a report identifying the amount of investment in this state and the number of equivalent jobs created by each taxpayer claiming a credit pursuant to the Nebraska Advantage Rural Development Act. The report shall include the amount of credits claimed in the aggregate. The report shall be issued on or before March 15 of each year beginning with March 15, 1988, through March 15, 2006, for all credits allowed during the previous calendar year. The report shall be issued on or before July 15 of each year beginning with July 15, 2007, for all credits allowed during the previous calendar year.(2) Beginning with applications filed on or after January 1, 2006, except for livestock modernization or expansion projects, the report shall provide information on project-specific total incentives used every two years for each approved project and shall disclose (a) the identity of the taxpayer, (b) the location of the project, and (c) the total credits used and refunds approved during the immediately preceding two years expressed as a single, aggregated total. The incentive information required to be reported under this subsection shall not be reported for the first year the taxpayer attains the required employment and investment thresholds. The information on first-year incentives used shall be combined with and reported as part of the second year. Thereafter, the information on incentives used for succeeding years shall be reported for each project every two years containing information on two years of credits used and refunds approved. The incentives used shall include incentives which have been approved by the Department of Revenue, but not necessarily received, during the previous two calendar years.(3) For livestock modernization or expansion projects, the report shall disclose (a) the identity of the taxpayer, (b) the total credits used and refunds approved during the preceding calendar year, and (c) the location of the project.(4) No information shall be provided in the report that is protected by state or federal confidentiality laws. SourceLaws 1986, LB 1124, § 9; Laws 1993, LB 725, § 19; Laws 1997, LB 886, § 9; Laws 2003, LB 608, § 11; Laws 2005, LB 312, § 22; Laws 2006, LB 990, § 7.