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The period in which a tax credit project must stay in compliance for the investor to keep the tax credits.

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The period in which an investor receives tax credits from a tax credit project.

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Amount of impairment loss for investment that generates income tax credit and other income tax benefit under tax credit program elected to be accounted for using proportional amortization method. Includes, but is not limited to, investment under tax credit program not meeting condition for accounting under proportional amortization method.

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Amount of investment that generates income tax credit and other income tax benefit under tax credit program elected to be accounted for using proportional amortization method. Includes, but is not limited to, investment under program not meeting condition for accounting under proportional amortization method.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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