<section number="59-10-1017"><effdate>10/14/2025</effdate><histories><history>Amended by Chapter <modchap sess="2025S1">9</modchap>, 2025 Special Session 1</history><modyear>2025</modyear></histories><catchline>Utah Educational Savings Plan tax credit.</catchline><subsection number="59-10-1017(1)">As used in this section:<subsection number="59-10-1017(1)(a)">"Account owner" means the same as that term is defined in Section <xref depth="3" refnumber="53H-10-101">53H-10-101</xref>.</subsection><subsection number="59-10-1017(1)(b)">"Grantor trust" means the same as that term is defined in Section <xref depth="3" refnumber="53H-10-201">53H-10-201</xref>.</subsection><subsection number="59-10-1017(1)(c)">"Higher education costs" means the same as that term is defined in Section <xref depth="3" refnumber="53H-10-201">53H-10-201</xref>.</subsection><subsection number="59-10-1017(1)(d)">"Maximum amount of a qualified investment for the taxable year" means, for a taxable year, the product of the percentage listed in Subsection <xref depth="4" refnumber="59-10-104(2)" start="0">59-10-104(2)</xref> and:<subsection number="59-10-1017(1)(d)(i)">subject to Subsection <xref depth="4" refnumber="59-10-1017(1)(d)(iii)" start="0">(1)(d)(iii)</xref>, for a claimant, estate, or trust that is an account owner, if that claimant, estate, or trust is other than husband and wife account owners who file a single return jointly, the maximum amount of a qualified investment:<subsection number="59-10-1017(1)(d)(i)(A)">listed in Subsection 53H-10-205(1)(e)(ii); and</subsection><subsection number="59-10-1017(1)(d)(i)(B)">increased or kept for that taxable year in accordance with Subsections 53H-10-205(1)(f) and (g);</subsection></subsection><subsection number="59-10-1017(1)(d)(ii)">subject to Subsection <xref depth="4" refnumber="59-10-1017(1)(d)(iii)" start="0">(1)(d)(iii)</xref>, for claimants who are husband and wife account owners who file a single return jointly, the maximum amount of a qualified investment:<subsection number="59-10-1017(1)(d)(ii)(A)">listed in Subsection <xref depth="4" refnumber="53H-10-205(1)(e)(iii)">53H-10-205(1)(e)(iii)</xref>; and</subsection><subsection number="59-10-1017(1)(d)(ii)(B)">increased or kept for that taxable year in accordance with Subsections <xref depth="4" refnumber="53H-10-205(1)(f)">53H-10-205(1)(f)</xref> and <xref depth="4" refnumber="59-10-1017(g)">(g)</xref>; or</subsection></subsection><subsection number="59-10-1017(1)(d)(iii)">for a grantor trust:<subsection number="59-10-1017(1)(d)(iii)(A)">if the owner of the grantor trust has a single filing status or head of household filing status as defined in Section <xref depth="3" refnumber="59-10-1018" start="0">59-10-1018</xref>, the amount described in Subsection <xref depth="4" refnumber="59-10-1017(1)(d)(i)" start="0">(1)(d)(i)</xref>; or</subsection><subsection number="59-10-1017(1)(d)(iii)(B)">if the owner of the grantor trust has a joint filing status as defined in Section <xref depth="3" refnumber="59-10-1018" start="0">59-10-1018</xref>, the amount described in Subsection <xref depth="4" refnumber="59-10-1017(1)(d)(ii)" start="0">(1)(d)(ii)</xref>.</subsection></subsection></subsection><subsection number="59-10-1017(1)(e)">"Owner of the grantor trust" means the same as that term is defined in Section <xref depth="3" refnumber="53H-10-201">53H-10-201</xref>.</subsection><subsection number="59-10-1017(1)(f)">"Qualified investment" means the same as that term is defined in Section <xref depth="3" refnumber="53H-10-201">53H-10-201</xref>.</subsection></subsection><subsection number="59-10-1017(2)">Except as provided in Section <xref depth="3" refnumber="59-10-1002.2" start="0">59-10-1002.2</xref> and subject to the other provisions of this section, a claimant, estate, or trust that is an account owner may claim a nonrefundable tax credit equal to the product of:<subsection number="59-10-1017(2)(a)">the amount of a qualified investment made:<subsection number="59-10-1017(2)(a)(i)">during the taxable year; and</subsection><subsection number="59-10-1017(2)(a)(ii)">into an account owned by the claimant, estate, or trust; and</subsection></subsection><subsection number="59-10-1017(2)(b)">the percentage listed in Subsection <xref depth="4" refnumber="59-10-104(2)" start="0">59-10-104(2)</xref>.</subsection></subsection><subsection number="59-10-1017(3)">A claimant, estate, or trust, or a person other than the claimant, estate, or trust, may make a qualified investment described in Subsection <xref depth="4" refnumber="59-10-1017(2)" start="0">(2)</xref>.</subsection><subsection number="59-10-1017(4)">A claimant, estate, or trust that is an account owner may not claim a tax credit under this section with respect to any portion of a qualified investment described in Subsection <xref depth="4" refnumber="59-10-1017(2)" start="0">(2)</xref> that a claimant, estate, trust, or person described in Subsection <xref depth="4" refnumber="59-10-1017(3)" start="0">(3)</xref> deducts on a federal income tax return.</subsection><subsection number="59-10-1017(5)">A tax credit under this section may not exceed the maximum amount of a qualified investment for the taxable year.</subsection><subsection number="59-10-1017(6)">A claimant, estate, or trust that is an account owner may not carry forward or carry back the tax credit under this section.</subsection></section>