8907 Nonconventional Source Fuel Credit

2007 Form 8907, Nonconventional Source Fuel Credit
Purpose: This is the first circulated draft of the 2007 Form 8907 for your review and
comments. See below for a discussion of the major changes.
TPCC Meeting: None, but one may be arranged if requested.
Prior Version: The 2006 Form 8907 is available at: http://www.irs.gov/pub/irspdf/f8907_06.pdf
Other Products: Circulations of draft tax forms, instructions, notices, and publications
are posted at: http://taxforms.web.irs.gov/draft_products.html
Comments: Please email, fax, call, or mail any comments by June 23, 2007.
Mike Cyrus
Tax Forms and Publications
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Email: [email protected]
Phone: 202-927-9545
Fax: 202-622-3262
2007 Form 8907 Major Changes
On the Form
1] The years are updated in the usual places and at the heading of columns (a), (b), and
(c).
2] Column (d) is removed because of IRC 45K(f)(1)(B) and (e)(2). In other words, there
is no provision for claiming the credit with respect to fuel other than qualified coke and
coke gas sold beyond 12/31/2007 at this time. All references to column (d) are removed
from the form.
3] The Form 3800 line reference on lines 14 and 16 is changed from "1s" to "1r" because
the lines on the 2007 Form 3800 are renamed.
In the Instructions
1] What’s New is deleted as outdated. The first two paragraphs are removed and the
third one, regarding who can report the credit directly on Form 3800, is repositioned
under Purpose of Form. The Form 3800 line reference in the repositioned paragraph is
changed from "1s" to "1r" because the lines on the 2007 Form 3800 are renamed.
2] Changes to the Nonconventional Source Fuel Credit is deleted as outdated.
3] In the second column on page 2, a new bullet is added under Coke and coke gas
(regarding original use) to reflect IRC section 45K(f)(2).
4] Several changes are made to the Line 4 instructions to make it pertain only to fuel
reported in column (b).
5] The years are updated in the usual places.

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8907

Name(s) shown on return

A

Type of qualified fuel (enter code)

B

Date the facility was placed in service

1

Barrel-of-oil equivalents

2

Enter the product of $3 multiplied by
the inflation adjustment factor. See
instructions
Multiply line 2 by line 1
Phaseout adjustment. See
instructions

5

6

Date

Subtract line 4 from line 3 in col. (b).
In col. (a) and (c), enter the amount
from line 3. If zero or less, enter zero
Add columns (a) through (c) on line 5

Signature

O.K. to print
Revised proofs
requested

OMB No. 1545-2008

Nonconventional Source Fuel Credit

Department of the Treasury
Internal Revenue Service

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Attach to your tax return.
See instructions.

Attachment
Sequence No.

146

Identifying number

(a)
Qualified coke and coke
gas sold after 12/31/2006
and before 1/1/2008

7a Reduction due to government monies and subsidized financing. Enter
the total of government grants, proceeds of tax-exempt government
obligations, and subsidized energy financing for the project for this and
all prior tax years

b Enter the total of additions to the capital account for the project for this
and all prior tax years
c Divide line 7a by line 7b. Show as a decimal to at least 4 places
d Multiply line 6 by line 7c
8 Subtract line 7d from line 6
9a Reduction due to energy credit. Enter the total amount allowed under
section 38 for this and all prior tax years by reason of the energy
percentage with respect to the property used in the project

(b)
All other qualified fuels
sold after 12/31/2006 and
before 1/1/2008

6

7a
7b
7c
7d
8

9a

b Enter the total amount recaptured with respect to the amount entered
on line 9a under section 49(b) or 50(a) for this and any prior tax year,
9b
and under section 38 for any prior tax year
c Subtract line 9b from line 9a. If zero or less, enter amount from line 8 on line 10 and go to line 11a
10 Subtract line 9c from line 8
11a Reduction due to enhanced oil recovery credit (Form 8830). Enter the
total amount allowed for this and all prior tax years by reason of any
enhanced oil recovery credit with respect to such project

11a

b Enter the total amount of enhanced oil recovery credit recapture with
respect to the amount on line 11a for any prior tax year

11b

c Subtract line 11b from line 11a. If zero or less, enter the amount from line 10 on line 12 and go to
line 13
12 Subtract line 11c from line 10
13 Nonconventional source fuel credit from partnerships, S corporations, estates, and trusts
14 Add lines 12 and 13. Estates and trusts, go to line 15; partnerships and S corporations, report this
amount on Schedule K; all others, report this amount on Form 3800, line 1r
15 Amount allocated to beneficiaries of the estate or trust (see instructions)
16 Estates and trusts: subtract line 15 from line 14. Report this amount on Form 3800, line 1r
For Paperwork Reduction Act Notice, see instructions.

(c)
Qualified coke and
coke gas
sold after 12/31/2007

Cat. No. 37716X

9c
10

11c
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8907

(2007)

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Form 8907 (2007)

General Instructions

Use Form 8907 to figure the nonconventional source fuel
credit. The credit is part of the general business credit. This
credit is allowed for a qualified fuel that you produced and that
was sold by you to an unrelated person during the tax year.
Qualified fuels for this credit are:
● Gas produced from biomass,

● Liquid, gaseous, or solid synthetic fuels produced from
coal, and

● Coke or coke gas. The coke or coke gas must not be
produced in a facility that produces coke or coke gas from
petroleum-based products.
See Qualified Fuels below for more information.

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● The fuel is sold during the period beginning on the later of
January 1, 2006, or the date the facility is placed in service
and ending 4 years after the date the period began.

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Section references are to the Internal Revenue Code unless
otherwise noted.

Purpose of Form

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Taxpayers that are not partnerships, S corporations,
estates, or trusts, and whose only source of this credit is from
those pass-through entities, are not required to complete or
file this form. Instead, they can report this credit directly on
line 1sX of Form 3800.

Qualified Fuels
Gas produced from biomass. This fuel qualifies for the
credit if:
● It is produced by the taxpayer in a facility located in the
United States or a U.S. possession that was originally placed
in service after December 31, 1992, and before July 1, 1998,
(pursuant to a binding written contract in effect before
January 1, 1997), and
● The fuel is sold before January 1, 2008.
Biomass means any organic material other than oil, natural
gas, and coal (including lignite), or any product thereof.
Liquid, gaseous, or solid fuels produced from coal. This
includes lignite and any of these fuels when used as
feedstocks. The fuel qualifies for the credit if:
● It is produced by the taxpayer in a facility located in the
United States or a U.S. possession that was placed in service
after December 31, 1992, and before July 1, 1998, (pursuant
to a binding written contract in effect before January 1, 1997),
and
● The fuel is sold before January 1, 2008.
Coke and coke gas. The fuel qualifies for the credit if:
● It is not produced in a facility that produces coke or coke
gas from petroleum-based products,
● It is produced by the taxpayer in a facility located in the
United States or a U.S. possession that was placed in service
before January 1, 1993, or after January 1, 1998, and before
January 1, 2010,
● The original use of the facility began with the taxpayer, and

You cannot claim the credit for coke or coke gas if
the facility used to produce coke or coke gas was
used to produce other qualified fuels and a credit
CAUTION for those fuels was allowed for this tax year or any
preceding tax year by section 45K(f) or 29(g), as applicable.

Specific Instructions

Line A

Enter a code identifying the type of qualified fuel sold as
follows:

● For gas produced from biomass, enter “A”.

● For liquid, gaseous, or solid synthetic fuels produced from
coal, enter “B”.
● For coke or coke gas, enter “C”.

Line B

Enter the date the facility was placed in service. If there is
more than one facility, attach a statement showing separately
for each facility the type of fuel it produced and the date it was
placed in service.

Line 1
Enter the barrel-of-oil equivalent of the qualified fuel in the
appropriate column. If you sold more than one type of fuel for
any column, compute the barrel-of-oil equivalent separately
for each type of fuel and enter the total in the appropriate
column. Compute the barrel-of-oil equivalent separately for
each type of qualified fuel by:
1. Determining the British Thermal Unit (BTU) value of the
amount of qualified fuel sold during the year using prevailing
industry standards, then
2. Dividing the BTU value of the fuel by 5.8 million.
Note. For liquid, gaseous, or solid synthetic fuels produced
from coal, do not include the BTU value of any additives used
to produce the fuel.
The average barrel-of-oil equivalent for coke and
coke gas cannot exceed 4,000 barrels a day.
When determining the average, do not take into
CAUTION account days before the date the facility was
placed in service.

Line 2
The $3 amount used to compute the credit must be adjusted
by multiplying it by the inflation adjustment factor for the type
of qualified fuel and the calendar year in which the sale
occurs. The inflation adjustment factor for coke and coke gas
will be different from the inflation adjustment factor for all
other qualified fuels.
Inflation adjustment factor. The inflation adjustment factor
for each calendar year and type of qualified fuel is provided in
the Internal Revenue Bulletin in April of the following year. The
Internal Revenue Bulletin is available at www.irs.gov/irb.

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INSTRUCTIONS TO PRINTERS
FORM 8907, PAGE 3 of 4 (Page 4 is blank)
MARGINS: TOP 13mm (1⁄ 2 "), CENTER SIDES.
PRINTS: HEAD TO HEAD
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Form 8907 (2007)

Line 4 Column (b)

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The Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006
provides that sales of qualified coke and coke gas
are not subject to a phaseout adjustment. Do not
CAUTION complete the worksheet below for entries made in
column (a) or column (c).

The amount of the credit is reduced for other than coke and
coke gas if the reference price for domestic crude oil reaches
a certain amount. Compute the phaseout adjustment for
column (b) of line 4 as follows:
(a) Determine the reference price for the
calendar year in which the fuel was sold.
The reference price for each calendar
year is provided in the Internal Revenue
Bulletin in April of the following year (a)
(b) Multiply $23.50 by the appropriate
inflation adjustment factor for the
qualified fuel and calendar year in which
the fuel was sold
(b)
(c) Subtract line (b) from line (a). If zero
or less, stop here; enter zero on line 4
and go to line 5
(c)
(d) Multiply $6.00 by the appropriate
inflation adjustment factor for the
qualified fuel and calendar year in which
the fuel was sold
(d)
(e) Divide line (c) by line (d)

● The total amount of subsidized energy financing provided
directly or indirectly under a federal, state, or local program
provided for the project.

(e)

(f) Phaseout Adjustment. Multiply line (e)
by the amount from line 3 of the form.
Enter this figure on line 4 and go to
line 5
(f)

Line 15

Estates and trusts. Allocate the amount on line 14 between
the estate and trust and the beneficiaries in proportion to the
income allocable to each. On line 15, enter the beneficiaries’
allocated amount.
Paperwork Reduction Act Notice. We ask for the information
on this form to carry out the Internal Revenue laws of the
United States. You are required to give us the information. We
need it to ensure that you are complying with these laws and
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section 6103.
The time needed to complete and file this form will vary
depending on individual circumstances. The estimated
burden for individual taxpayers filing this form is approved
under OMB control number 1545-0074 and is included in the
estimates shown in the instructions for their individual
income tax return. The estimated burden for all other
taxpayers who file this form is shown below.
Recordkeeping
Learning about the law or the form

11 hr., 28 min.
47 min.

Line 7a

Preparing and sending the form to the IRS

Enter the sum, for this and all prior tax years, of:

If you have comments concerning the accuracy of these
time estimates or suggestions for making this form simpler,
we would be happy to hear from you. See the instructions for
the tax return with which this form is filed.

● Grants provided by the United States, a state, or a political
subdivision of the state for the project;
● Proceeds of a tax-exempt issue of state or local
government obligations used to provide financing for the
project; and

1 hr., 1 min.