Tax credits

(a) For purposes of section 235-55, each resident shareholder shall be considered to have paid a tax imposed on the shareholder in an amount equal to the shareholder's pro rata share of any net income tax paid by the S corporation to a state that does not measure the income of S corporation shareholders by the income of the S corporation. For purposes of the preceding sentence, the term "net income tax" means any tax imposed on or measured by a corporation's net income.

     (b)  Each shareholder of an S corporation shall be allowed a credit against the tax imposed by section 235-51 in an amount equal to the shareholder's pro rata share of the tax credit earned by the S corporation in this State. [L 1990, c 16, pt of §1; am L 1992, c 105, §1; am L 2007, c 151, §2]