New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 18 - TREASURY - TAXATION
Chapter 7 - CORPORATION BUSINESS TAX ACT
Subchapter 3 - COMPUTATION OF TAX
Section 18:7-3.13 - Estimated tax

(a) For any privilege periods beginning on or after January 1, 1985, each taxpayer shall pay its estimated tax in four installments as follows:

(b) For privilege periods beginning on or after January 1, 2003, each taxpayer with gross receipts of $50,000,000 or more for the prior privilege period shall pay its estimated tax for its current privilege period in installments as follows:

(c) When the tax liability for the preceding tax year is $500.00 or less, a taxpayer may, in lieu of making the installment payments otherwise required, discharge its entire obligation with respect to estimating its tax by making a single payment on or before the original due date for filing its return. The single payment is 50 percent of the tax shown on the face of its return. Such tax must be determined with reference to the tentative return or final return which was filed or should have been filed on or before the original date of such return. The single payment should be computed by taking into account any payment which may have been made on the 15th day of the first month of its current tax year.

(d) For purposes of applying this rule, it is necessary that the preceding tax year be a full calendar or fiscal year, or where such return is for a short period of less than 12 months, the actual tax liability for such short period must be divided by the number of whole months covered by the return and multiplied by 12 to impute a tax for a full calendar or fiscal year. For the purpose of this computation a fraction of a month is to be disregarded.

(e) A taxpayer shall be entitled to a credit in the amount of the estimated tax payments made and shall be entitled to the return of any amount so paid which is in excess of the total tax payable under N.J.S.A. 54:10A-15(c).

(f) Any amount overpaid and appearing on the face of the respective New Jersey corporation business tax return for the immediate preceding year may be applied in lieu of any payment of estimated tax otherwise due pursuant to this section where the taxpayer indicates on the face of such return that it elects to have such overpayment so applied. Such amount will be considered to be a payment of the first installment of the estimated tax for the next succeeding year unless the taxpayer designates otherwise on the face of the return for the year in which the overpayment was made.

(g) The term "taxpayer" as used in this section is defined at N.J.A.C. 18:7-1.3 and includes corporations as defined at N.J.S.A. 54:10A-4(c), a combined group as defined at N.J.S.A. 54:10A-4(z), investment companies, regulated investment companies, real estate investment trusts, financial business corporations, banking corporations, and savings institutions. For more information on combined groups and combined reporting, see N.J.A.C. 18:7-21.

(h) The due date for any payment of estimated tax cannot be extended.