Summary


Emergency Rule 12ER11-01 (Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program): (1) provides the taxpayers authorized under Chapter 2010-24, L.O.F., eligible to participate in the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program and when those taxpayers are authorized to participate in the Program; (2) requires eligible taxpayers to file an Application for Tax Credit Contributions to Nonprofit Scholarship Funding Organizations with the Department to receive a credit allocation from the tax cap authorized by the law for the 2010-2011 state fiscal year; (3) establishes the procedures the Department will use to notify an applicant of the taxpayer’s credit allocation; (4) provides that a contribution to an eligible nonprofit scholarship funding organization must be made by an eligible taxpayer prior to taking a tax credit on a tax return; (5) establishes procedures for taxpayers to carry forward a tax credit for a period of up to three years when a taxpayer’s tax liability is insufficient to take the full amount of the tax credit; (6) establishes procedures for taxpayers who are unable to use a credit allocation to submit an Application for Rescindment of Tax Credit Allocation to Nonprofit Scholarship Funding Organizations to rescind that credit and when those funds are eligible to other taxpayers for that state fiscal year; and (7) provides how taxpayers may obtain copies of the applications used in the administration of the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program.