The Department of Taxation and Finance annually produces a mandated dataset of credit activity under the General Business Corporation Franchise Tax (Article 9‐A) to help analyze the effects of the claims. The data used to generate this report come from an annual study file based on the latest available data drawn from New York State corporation tax returns. The totals in the summary datasets may not match the detail datasets due to rounding and disclosure requirements. The totals in the summary datasets may not match the detail data due to rounding and disclosure requirements. Total values for numbers of taxpayers and amount of credit, in addition to mean and median credit, were computed using all taxpayers in the study file.

A series of datasets presents profiles of the credits distributed by different subgroupings. These include: • Summarization of tax credit activity by credit and component • Summarization of tax credit activity by credit, component and basis of taxation. • Summarization of tax credit activity by credit, component and NAICS industry description.
• Summarization of tax credit activity by credit, component and the size of the credit used.
• Summarization of tax credit activity by credit, component and the size of the entire net income of the taxpayer.

Secrecy provisions preclude providing all subgroupings for all credits and also generally require the omission of credit refund data. These datasets only contains data for corporate franchise taxpayers filing under Article 9-A. It does not include statistics for taxpayers filing as banks under Article 32 (however, starting in 2015 banks and general business corporations will file under the same tax article, Article 9A), insurance companies filing under Article 33, or taxpayers filing under any of the various sections of Article 9. Nor does it provide data for taxpayers claiming credits under Article 22, the Personal Income Tax. These taxpayers claim credit by virtue of being sole proprietors or as recipients of credit that originated with flow-through entities (i.e., S corporations, limited liability companies, or partnerships).