Missouri Revised Statutes Title XL. Additional Executive Departments § 620.650. Purpose of qualified funds--tax credit by for qualified contribution to qualified fund, amount, application, restrictions--tax on qualified funds uninvested capital, amount, distributions deemed made at end of tax year

1. The sole purpose of each qualified fund is to make investments.  One hundred percent of investments made from qualified contributions shall be qualified investments.

2. Any person who makes a qualified contribution to a qualified fund shall receive a tax credit against the tax otherwise due pursuant to chapter 143, chapter 147, or chapter 148, other than taxes withheld pursuant to sections 143.191 to 143.265, in an amount equal to one hundred percent of such person's qualified contribution.

3. Such person shall submit to the department an application for the tax credit on a form provided by the department.  The department shall award tax credits in the order the applications are received and based upon the strategy approved by the corporation.  Tax credits issued pursuant to this section may be claimed for the tax year in which the qualified contribution is made or in any of the following ten years, and may be assigned, transferred or sold.

4. There is hereby imposed on each qualified fund a tax equal to fifteen percent of the qualified fund's uninvested capital at the close of such qualified fund's tax year.  For purposes of tax computation, any distribution made by a qualified fund during a tax year is deemed made at the end of such tax year.  Each tax year, every qualified fund shall remit the tax imposed by this section to the director of the department of revenue for deposit in the state treasury to the credit of the general revenue fund.