This document contains temporary
regulations that provide rules for claiming the railroad track
maintenance credit under section 45G of the Internal Revenue Code
for qualified railroad track maintenance expenditures paid or
incurred by a Class II or Class III railroad and other eligible
taxpayers during the taxable year. These temporary regulations
reflect changes to the law made by the American Jobs Creation Act
of 2004 and the Gulf Opportunity Zone Act of 2005.
These temporary
regulations apply to taxable years ending on or after these
regulations are filed in the Federal Register and beginning before
January 1, 2008. However, a taxpayer may apply the temporary
regulations to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2004, and
ending before these regulations are filed in the Federal Register,
provided that the taxpayer applies all provisions in these
regulations to the taxable year. For this reason essential that
this document receive OMB approval so that taxpayers have ample
time to receive and understand these new requirements relating to
this ICR.
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