Delaware Administrative Code
Title 1 - Authorities, Boards and Commissions
900 - Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs
901 - Historic Preservation Tax Credit Program
Section 901-6.0 - Procedures for Certification of Completion
Current through Register Vol. 28, No. 3, September 1, 2024
6.1 Upon completion of the rehabilitation work outlined in the Part 2 application, or an approved project phase, the applicant shall submit to the State Office a Part 3 application with documentation supporting any conditions in the Part 2 application approval, the form(s) required in the Division of Revenue's regulations indicating the name of the taxpayer who will claim the tax credit, and a final accounting of qualified expenditures. The State Office may prescribe the format in which the documentation of qualified expenditures is submitted. The costs are verified by and may be adjusted by the State Office if documentation is inadequate or costs are disallowed. Any submission of Part 3 of the application with qualified rehabilitation costs of more than $750,000 shall include a certified statement by a certified public accountant verifying that the expenses statement includes only qualified rehabilitation costs.
6.2 The State Office shall not process an incomplete Part 3 application until all required application information is received. Where adequate documentation is not provided, the State Office shall notify the applicant of the additional information needed to undertake or complete the review. The State Office may inspect the completed project to determine if the work meets the definition of a certified rehabilitation. The applicant will permit the State Office to inspect the completed project to determine if the work meets the definition of a certified rehabilitation.
6.3 Prior to approval of a Part 3 application, if the State Historic Preservation Officer (or the Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places) determines that an individual historic property or a historic district is no longer eligible for listing in the National Register due to a loss of integrity, any application for tax credits that has not yet been assigned by the Delaware Division of Revenue shall have its Credit Award withdrawn.
6.4 Upon approval by the State Office that the completed rehabilitation, or an approved phase, meets the definition of a certified rehabilitation, the Delaware State Historic Preservation Officer shall issue a Certificate of Completion for the project, or approved phase. For approved phased rehabilitations, each phase must receive a Certificate of Completion in order for the overall project to be considered a certified rehabilitation.
6.5 After issuing a Certificate of Completion for a project, or an approved phase, the State Office shall submit the documentation of qualified expenditures and an 1811AC 0905 form to the Division of Revenue, and request a determination of the value of the documented expenditures and assignment of the calculated tax credits to the applicant for the completed project or an approved phase. For all projects in which the tax credits are to be applied against franchise taxes, and at other times as requested by the Division of Revenue, the forms and documentation will also be submitted to the State Bank Commissioner's Office.
6.6 The Division of Revenue or the State Bank Commissioner's Office will return the forms certifying the value of the tax credits assigned to the project, or an approved phase, to the State Office which shall transmit the Certificate of Completion and the Revenue form(s) to the applicant, or taxpayer who will claim the tax credits.
6.7 In the case of approved phased projects, a single rehabilitation project may receive more than one Certificate of Completion. Credits issued to the initial assignee, or in the case of a tax-exempt assignee, to the first taxable transferee after the associated phase completion, are subject to revocation and repayment to the Delaware Division of Revenue or the Office of the State Bank Commissioner if, under regulations issued by the State Office, a phased rehabilitation is not completed by the agreed upon completion date indicating that the applicant for the credit award is unable or unwilling to complete it; or in the event that the project does not meet the certification requirements previously agreed to with the State Office.
