Buy Maryland Cybersecurity Tax Credit (BMC)

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_Certain sellers have reached their statutory cap for tax year 2025 and Commerce is no longer able to award tax credits to buyers who made purchases from those sellers in tax year 2025. Please contact Cindy Zeng at cindy.zeng@maryland.gov before completing a buyer application._

The Buy Maryland Cybersecurity Tax Credit provides an incentive for Qualified Maryland Companies to purchase cybersecurity technologies and services from a Qualified Maryland Cybersecurity Seller. Qualified Maryland Companies may claim a tax credit for 50% of the net purchase price of cybersecurity technologies and services purchased from a Qualified Maryland Cybersecurity Seller. The tax credit must be claimed for the tax year in which a purchase is made.

The tax credit is awarded on a first come first served basis, and is subject to funding available to the Department of Commerce. 25% of the annual funding amount is earmarked for cybersecurity service purchases, and the remaining 75% is available for cybersecurity technology purchases.

The tax credit was created in 2018. The Department of Commerce has $4.0 million available for tax credit for each tax year after 2018. This means $3.0 million is available for the purchase of cybersecurity technologies and $1.0 million is available for the purchase of cybersecurity services.

The Buy Maryland Cybersecurity Tax Credit is designed to promote the cybersecurity industry in Maryland by helping small businesses purchase cybersecurity technologies and services from Maryland cybersecurity companies to protect business information.

The following resources will assist a business with identifying its cybersecurity needs. Stop. Think. Connect. Small Business Resources (Homeland Security) Small Business Information Security: The Fundamentals (NIST) BENEFIT Benefit for Companies Purchasing Cybersecurity Technologies and Services

A Qualified Maryland Company that purchases cybersecurity technologies or services from a Qualified Maryland Cybersecurity Seller may claim up to $50,000 in tax credits in a single tax year. This means a Qualified Maryland Company may apply for the tax credit for up to $100,000 in cybersecurity purchases from Qualified Maryland Cybersecurity Sellers in a single tax year. Benefit for Companies Selling Cybersecurity Technologies and Services

A single Qualified Maryland Cybersecurity Seller may have up to $400,000 in cybersecurity sales benefit from the tax credit in a single tax year. Once an aggregate of $200,000 in tax credits are claimed for the purchase of cybersecurity technologies or services from a single Qualified Maryland Cybersecurity Seller in a tax year, additional purchases from that Qualified Maryland Cybersecurity Seller in that tax year are not eligible for the tax credit.

Qualified Maryland Cybersecurity Sellers are certified by the Department of Commerce. View the current list of Qualified Maryland Cybersecurity Sellers

Cybersecurity purchases made from any company listed as a Qualified Maryland Cybersecurity Company on Commerce's website may be eligible for the tax credit.

A purchase of Qualified Maryland Cybersecurity Seller technologies or services from a third-party reseller are eligible for the tax credit. However, the purchase price of sales from a third-party reseller must be reduced by 20% before calculating the 50% tax credit. The 20% reduction to the purchase price from a third-party reseller is the Department of Commerce's estimate of the percentage added by third-party resellers.

A reseller is any company selling cybersecurity technologies or services which is not…

Topic areas: Security and Defense, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).

Funding amount

This grant provides Varies in funding.

Deadline

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis; there is no single fixed deadline.

Who can apply

This opportunity is open to the following applicant types:

• Not specified by the program.

Eligibility

The program did not publish a separate eligibility statement. See the official opportunity page for the full eligibility criteria.

Agency

Buy Maryland Cybersecurity Tax Credit (BMC) is administered by Maryland Department of Commerce (MD Commerce), listed via Maryland Department of Commerce.