Form FORM 8923 FORM 8923 Mine Rescue Team Training Credit

8923

Form
(Rev. December 2008)
Department of the Treasury
Internal Revenue Service
Name(s) as shown on return

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Mine Rescue Team Training Credit
OMB No. 1545-2067
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Attach to your tax return.
Identifying number

Total training program costs of qualified mine rescue team employees paid or incurred during
the tax year (up to $50,000 per qualified employee)

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Multiply line 1 by 20% (.20) (see instructions for the adjustment you must make)

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Mine rescue team training credits from partnerships and S corporations

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Add lines 2 and 3. Partnerships and S corporations, report this amount on Schedule K; all others,
report this amount on the applicable line on Form 3800 (e.g., line 1u of the 2008 Form 3800)

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General Instructions

Specific Instructions

Section references are to the Internal Revenue Code unless
otherwise noted.
Note. Taxpayers other than partnerships or S corporations
whose only source of this credit is from those pass-through
entities are not required to complete or file this form. Instead,
report this credit directly on the applicable line of Form 3800,
General Business Credit.

Line 2
In general, you must reduce your allowable training program
costs by the amount on line 2. This is required even if you
cannot take the full credit this year and must carry part of it
back or forward. If you capitalized any costs included on line
1, reduce the amount capitalized by the credit on line 2
attributable to these costs.

Purpose of Form
Taxpayers who employ individuals as miners in U.S.
underground mines use Form 8923 to claim the mine rescue
team training credit. This credit applies to training program
costs paid or incurred for qualified mine rescue team
employees for tax years beginning before January 1, 2010.

Definitions
Training program costs. Taxpayers who employ individuals
as miners in U.S. underground mines can claim a credit of
20% of the training program costs paid or incurred during
the tax year for training of qualified mine rescue team
employees. The maximum amount of training program costs
that may be taken into account annually for each qualified
employee is $50,000. The training costs include wages paid
or incurred while the qualified employee is attending a
training program.
Qualified employee. A qualified mine rescue team employee
is any full-time employee of the taxpayer who is a miner
eligible to serve for more than 6 months of the year as a
mine rescue team member. The employee must have
completed, at a minimum, an initial 20-hour course of
instruction, as prescribed by the Mine Safety and Health
Administration’s Office of Educational Policy and
Development, or received at least 40 hours of refresher
training in such instruction. See 30 CFR section 49.8 for
refresher training requirements.
Wages. Wages qualifying for the credit generally have the
same meaning as wages subject to the Federal
Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA), but without regard to any
dollar limit.

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Cat. No. 37735E

Form

8923

(Rev. 12-2008)