Section 280-RICR-20-20-14.6 - TimingA. Property is considered first placed in service by the taxpayer in the tax year in which under the taxpayer's depreciation practice, the period for depreciation for the property begins or the year in which the property is placed in a condition or state of readiness and availability for a specifically assigned function, whichever is earlier.B. Only the amounts actually paid by the taxpayer for qualifying property after July 1, 1994 qualify for the credit.C. Acquisitions in a taxable year do not affect similar property previously qualifying. For example, a taxpayer builds an addition to a previously qualifying building for use as office space. The investment in the addition will not qualify for the credit since it is not used for research and development in the experimental or laboratory sense but it will not trigger a recapture of the credit taken on the previously existing structure. If the addition were built for and used principally in research and development in the experimental or laboratory sense (and the other criteria for the credit were satisfied), the credit would apply to the addition. 280 R.I. Code R. § 280-RICR-20-20-14.6