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Tax breaks for businesses from the 2012 American Taxpayer Relief Act

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Home » Tax breaks for businesses from the 2012 American Taxpayer Relief Act

In addition to the lofty package of tax relief for individuals, the recently enacted 2012 American Taxpayer Relief Act extends a host of important tax breaks for businesses. We’ve put together a list to give you an overview of its impact. For more detailed information and to determine how it will affect your business, give us a call at 561-798-9988.

The following depreciation provisions are retroactively extended by the Act:

  • Fifteen-year straight line cost recovery for qualified leasehold improvements, qualified restaurant buildings and improvements, and qualified retail improvements.
  • Seven-year recovery period for motor sports entertainment complexes.
  • Accelerated depreciation for business property on an Indian reservation.
  • Increased expensing limitations and treatment of certain real property as Section 179 property;
  • Special expensing rules for certain film and television productions; and
  • The election to expense mine safety equipment.

The new law also extends and modifies the bonus depreciation provisions with respect to property placed in service after Dec. 31, 2012, in tax years ending after that date.

The following business credits and special rules are also extended:

  • The research credit is modified and retroactively extended for two years through 2013.
  • The temporary minimum low-income tax credit rate for nonfederally subsidized new buildings is extended to apply to housing credit dollar amount allocations made before Jan. 1, 2014.
  • The housing allowance exclusion for determining area median gross income for qualified residential rental project exempt facility bonds is extended two years.
  • The Indian employment tax credit is retroactively extended for two years through 2013.
  • The new markets tax credit is retroactively extended for two years through 2013.
  • The railroad track maintenance credit is retroactively extended for two years through 2013.
  • The mine rescue team training credit is retroactively extended for two years through 2013.
  • The employer wage credit for employees who are active duty members of the uniformed services is retroactively extended for two years through 2013.
  • The work opportunity tax credit is retroactively extended for two years through 2013.
  • Qualified zone academy bonds are retroactively extended for two years through 2013.
  • The enhanced charitable deduction for contributions of food inventory is retroactively extended for two years through 2013.
  • Allowance of the domestic production activities deduction for activities in Puerto Rico applies for the first eight tax years of the taxpayer beginning after Dec. 31, 2005, and before Jan. 1, 2014.
  • Exclusion from a tax-exempt organization’s unrelated business taxable income (UBTI) of interest, rent, royalties, and annuities paid to it from a controlled entity is extended through Dec. 31, 2013.
  • Treatment of certain dividends of regulated investment companies (RICs) as “interest-related dividends” is extended through Dec. 31, 2013.
  • Inclusion of RICs in the definition of a “qualified investment entity” is extended through Dec. 31, 2013.
  • The exception under subpart F for active financing income (i.e., certain income from the active conduct of a banking, financing, insurance or similar business) for tax years of a foreign corporation beginning after Dec. 31, 1998, and before Jan. 1, 2014, for tax years of foreign corporations beginning after Dec. 31, 2005, and before Jan. 1, 2014.
  • Look-through treatment for payments between related controlled foreign corporations (CFCs) under the foreign personal holding company rules is extended through Jan. 1, 2014.
  • Exclusion of 100% of gain on certain small business stock acquired before Jan. 1, 2014.
  • Basis adjustment to stock of S corporations making charitable contributions of property in tax years beginning before Dec. 31, 2013.
  • The reduction in S corporation recognition period for built-in gains tax is extended through 2013, with a 10-year period instead of a 5-year period.
  • Various empowerment zone tax incentive, including the designation of an empowerment zone and of additional empowerment zones (extended through Dec. 31, 2013) and the period for which the percentage exclusion for qualified small business stock (of a corporation which is a qualified business entity) is 60% (extended through Dec. 31, 2018).
  • Tax-exempt financing for New York Liberty Zone is extended for bonds issued before Jan. 1 2014.
  • Temporary increase in limit on cover over rum excise taxes to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands is extended for spirits brought into the U.S. before Jan. 1, 2014.
  • American Samoa economic development credit, as modified, is extended through Jan. 1, 2014.

For additional information, contact either Steve Leone, CPA, sleone@templetonco.com or Emma Pfister, CPA,epfister@templetonco.com.

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