Company: SOJE
Filing Date: 2025-10-30
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000092122-25-000084
Chunk: 437

Company: SOUTHERN CO
Filing Date: 2025-10-30
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 2
Chunk 437
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 PTCs for solar and wind power projects, which were originally set to run through 2032. Such projects must now either begin construction by July 2026 or be fully operational by the end of 2027 in order to claim the applicable tax credits. Nuclear, hydropower, and geothermal energy projects maintain tax credits under the new law. Battery energy storage projects retain their full tax credit through 2033, with a gradual phase-out by 2036. The OBBB adds new restrictions for tax credits for renewable facilities that are owned or influenced by a prohibited foreign entity or receive material assistance from a prohibited foreign entity. Pursuant to an executive order, the U.S. Treasury issued a notice on August 15, 2025, making changes to the start-of-construction guidance for wind and solar projects that begin construction after September 1, 2025. The Southern Company system is implementing the guidance in its plans for future renewable projects. Additionally, the IRS is expected to issue significant guidance on the tax provisions in the OBBB. The Southern Company system is still assessing and will continue to monitor the impacts of the OBBB. The ultimate outcome of this legislation cannot be determined at this time.

Corporate Alternative Minimum Tax

On June 2, 2025 and September 30, 2025, the U.S. Treasury and the IRS issued guidance on the application of the CAMT. Southern Company has filed its consolidated 2024 federal income tax return and determined it was not subject to CAMT. Southern Company is still assessing the issued guidance and is not expecting to be subject to CAMT for the 2025 tax year. The ultimate outcome of this legislation cannot be determined at this time.

Natural Gas Safe Harbor Method

In April 2023, the IRS issued Revenue Procedure 2023-15, which provides a safe harbor tax method of accounting that taxpayers may use to determine whether certain expenditures to maintain, repair, replace, or improve natural gas transmission and distribution property must be capitalized or allowed as repair deductions. The revenue procedure allows multiple alternatives for implementation. In April 2024, the IRS issued Revenue Procedure 2024-23, which gives additional implementation guidance on the natural gas safe harbor tax method of accounting for qualifying repair deductions. Southern Company and Southern Company Gas submitted a tax accounting method change for qualifying expenditures with the filing of its consolidated 2024 federal income tax return. The new tax method of accounting resulted in a material net positive cash flow for Southern Company Gas. This method change