OMB No. 1545-1809 Credit for Employer-Provided Child Care

Facilities and Services

Form 8882

Department of the Treasury

Internal Revenue Service

Name(s) shown on return Identifying number

For Paperwork Reduction Act Notice, see instructions. Cat. No. 33436Y Form 8882 (2002)

2002

Attachment

 Attach to your tax return. Sequence No.131

Part II Allowable Credit (See Who must file Form 3800 to find out if you complete Part II or file Form 3800.)

● Individuals. Enter the amount from Form 1040, line 42

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Corporations. Enter the amount from Form 1120, Schedule J, line 3; or the applicable

line of your return

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11a 11a

Credit for child and dependent care expenses (Form 2441, line 11) 11b

Credit for the elderly or the disabled (Schedule R (Form 1040), line 24)

b

11d

Foreign tax credit

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e 11e

Possessions tax credit (Form 5735, line 17 or 27)

11f f

11g g

Credit for fuel from a nonconventional source

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Qualified electric vehicle credit (Form 8834, line 20)

Add lines 11a through 11l 11m

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Net income tax. Subtract line 11m from line 10. If zero, skip lines 13 through 16 and

enter -0- on line 17

9 Alternative minimum tax:

● Individuals. Enter the amount from Form 6251, line 35

● Corporations. Enter the amount from Form 4626, line 15 9

● Estates and trusts. Enter the amount from Form 1041, Schedule I, line 56

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Tentative minimum tax (see instructions):

● Individuals. Enter the amount from Form 6251, line 33

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● Corporations. Enter the amount from Form 4626, line 13

● Estates and trusts. Enter the amount from Form 1041,

Schedule I, line 54

14 Enter 25% (.25) of the excess, if any, of line 13 over $25,000 (see instructions)

Subtract line 16 from line 12. If zero or less, enter -0-

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Credit allowed for the current year. Enter the smaller of line 7 or line 17 here and on Form 1040,

line 53; Form 1120, Schedule J, line 6d; Form 1120-A, Part I, line 2a; Form 1041, Schedule G, line

2c; or the applicable line of your return. If line 17 is smaller than line 7, see instructions



Mortgage interest credit (Form 8396, line 11)

c 11c

8 Regular tax before credits:

10 Add lines 8 and 9 10

12

Enter the greater of line 14 or line 15

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 15

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Adoption credit (Form 8839, line 18) 11h

District of Columbia first-time homebuyer credit (Form 8859, line 11) 11i

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k

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Child tax credit (Form 1040, line 50)

Education credits (Form 8863, line 18)

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11k

Estates and trusts. Enter the sum of the amounts from Form 1041, Schedule G, lines 1a

and 1b, or the amount from the applicable line of your return

Net regular tax. Subtract line 11m from line 8. If zero or less, enter -0-

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11l

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Credit for qualified retirement savings contributions (Form 8880, line 14)

Current Year Credit (Members of controlled groups or businesses under common control, see

instructions.)

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Part I

Qualified child care facility expenditures paid or incurred (see

instructions)

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Form 8882

credits from

pass-through

entities:

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Current year credit. Enter the smaller of line 6 or $150,000 (S corporations, partnerships,

estates, and trusts, see instructions)

Enter 25% (.25) of line 1

a

b

Shareholder

Partner

If you are a—

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Then enter the total of the Form 8882 credits from—

Schedule K-1 (Form 1065) lines 12c, 12d, or 13

Schedule K-1 (Form 1120S) lines 12d, 12e, or 13 

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Add lines 2, 4, and 5

Qualified child care resource and referral expenditures paid or incurred

Enter 10% (.10) of line 3

c Beneficiary Schedule K-1 (Form 1041) line 14

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Form 8882 (2002) Page 2

Purpose of Form

Employers use Form 8882 to claim the credit for qualified

child care facility and resource and referral expenditures. The

credit is part of the general business credit. You may claim

the credit any time within 3 years from the due date of your

return on either an original or amended return.

How To Figure the Credit

The credit is 25% of the qualified child care facility

expenditures plus 10% of the qualified child care resource

and referral expenditures paid or incurred during the tax year.

The credit is limited to $150,000 per tax year.

Qualified child care facility expenditures are amounts

paid or incurred:

● To acquire, construct, rehabilitate, or expand property that:

1. Is to be used as part of a qualified child care facility of

the taxpayer,

2. Is depreciable (or amortizable) property, and

3. Is not part of the principal residence of the taxpayer or

any employee of the taxpayer;

● For the operating expenses of a qualified child care facility

of the taxpayer, including expenses for training of employees,

scholarship programs, and providing increased compensation

to employees with higher levels of child care training; or

● Under a contract with a qualified child care facility to

provide child care services to employees of the taxpayer.

Note: Any expenses for child care included in qualified child

care facility expenditures may not exceed the fair market

value of such care.

A qualified child care facility is a facility that meets the

requirements of all applicable laws and regulations of the

state or local government in which it is located, including the

licensing of the facility as a child care facility. The following

conditions must also be met.

● The principal use of the facility must be to provide child

care (unless the facility is also the personal residence of the

person operating the facility).

● Enrollment in the facility must be open to employees of the

taxpayer during the tax year.

● If the facility is the principal trade or business of the

taxpayer, at least 30% of the enrollees of the facility must be

dependents of employees of the taxpayer.

● The use of the facility (or the eligiblity to use the facility)

must not discriminate in favor of highly compensated

employees.

Qualified child care resource and referral expenditures

are amounts paid or incurred under a contract to provide

child care resource and referral services to employees of the

taxpayer. The provision of the services (or the eligibility to

use the services) must not discriminate in favor of highly

compensated employees.

No Double Benefit Allowed

You must reduce:

Recapture of Credit

You may have to recapture part or all of the credit if, before

the 10th tax year after the tax year in which your qualified

child care facility is placed in service, the facility ceases to

operate as a qualified child care facility or there is a change

in ownership of the facility. However, a change in ownership

will not require recapture if the person acquiring the interest

in the facility agrees, in writing, to assume the recapture

liability. See section 45F(d) for details.

Controlled Groups

All members of a controlled group of corporations (within the

meaning of section 52(a)) and all partnerships, corporations,

unincorporated businesses, and other persons under

common control (within the meaning of section 52(b)) are

treated as one person for purposes of the credit. The group

member who would have the largest credit if this rule did not

apply completes Form 8882, Part I, figures the group credit

on line 7, and skips Part II. On separate Forms 8882, each

member (including the member who completed the group

Form 8882) skips lines 1 through 6 and enters its share of

the group credit on line 7. Each member then completes Part

II on its separate form (or Form 3800, if required). Each

member also must attach a statement showing how the

group credit was divided among all members. The members

share the credit on line 2 in the same proportion that they

contributed qualified child care facility expenditures and

share the credit on line 4 in the same proportion that they

contributed qualified resource and referral expenditures.

Additional Information

For more details, see section 45F.

Specific Instructions

Part I—Current Year Credit

Figure the credit for expenditures you paid on lines 1 through

4. Do not complete lines 1 through 4 for credits allocated to

you from S corporations, partnerships, estates, or trusts;

instead, complete line 5.

Line 1

Enter your qualified child care facility expenditures (defined

above) paid or incurred during the tax year.

Line 3

Enter your qualified child care resource and referral

expenditures (defined above) paid or incurred during the tax

year.

Line 5

Enter the amount of credit that was allocated to you as a

partner, shareholder, or beneficiary.

General Instructions

Section references are to the Internal Revenue Code.

Any recapture tax is reported on the line of your tax return

where other recapture taxes are reported (or, if no such line,

on the “total tax” line). The recapture tax may not be used in

figuring the amount of any credit or in figuring the alternative

minimum tax.

Line 7

S corporations and partnerships. Allocate the credit on line

7 among the shareholders and partners. Attach Form 8882

to the return and on Schedule K-1 show the credit for each

shareholder or partner. Electing large partnerships must

include this credit in “general credits.”

● The basis of any qualified child care facility by the amount

of the credit on line 7 allocable to capital expenditures

related to the facility,

● Any otherwise allowable deductions used to figure the

credit by the amount of the credit on line 7 allocable to those

deductions, and

● Any expenditures used to figure any other credit by the

amount of the credit on line 7 allocable to those expenditures

(for purposes of figuring the other credit).

Note: For credits entered on line 5, only the pass-through

entity is required to make this reduction.
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section 6103.

● A carryback or carryforward of any of those credits.

See the instructions for Form 3800 to find out which

credits are included in the general business credit. If you

must file Form 3800, enter the credit from line 7 of this form

on Form 3800, line 1o.

Line 14

See section 38(c)(4) for special rules that apply to married

couples filing separate returns, controlled corporate groups,

estates, and trusts.

Line 15

Although you may not owe the alternative minimum tax

(AMT), you generally must still compute the tentative

minimum tax (TMT) to figure your allowable credit. For a

small corporation exempt from the AMT under section 55(e),

enter zero. Otherwise, complete and attach the applicable

AMT form or schedule and enter the TMT on line 15.

Line 18

If you cannot use all of your credit because of the tax liability

limit (line 17 is smaller than line 7), carry the unused credit

back 1 year then forward up to 20 years. See the instructions

for Form 3800 for details.

● More than one of the credits included in the general

business credit (other than a credit from Form 8844 or 8884),

or

Part II—Allowable Credit

The credit allowed for the current year may be limited based

on your tax liability. Use Part II to figure the allowable credit

unless you must file Form 3800, General Business Credit.

Who must file Form 3800. You must file Form 3800 if you

have:

● A credit for employer-provided child care facilities and

services from a passive activity,

Estates and trusts. The credit on line 7 is allocated between

the estate or trust and the beneficiaries in proportion to the

income allocable to each. On the dotted line next to line 7, the

estate or trust should enter its part of the total credit. Label it

“1041 Portion” and use this amount in Part II (or Form 3800, if

required) to figure the credit to claim on Form 1041.