8932 Credit for Employer Differential Wage Payments

Form

8932

(Rev. January 2016)
Department of the Treasury
Internal Revenue Service
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OMB No. 1545-2126

Credit for Employer Differential Wage Payments
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▶ Attach to your tax return.
Information about Form 8932 and its instructions is at www.irs.gov/form8932.

Identifying number

Eligible differential wage payments paid during the tax year (see instructions) . . . . . . .
Multiply line 1 by 20% (.20) (see instructions for the adjustment you must make) . . . . . .
Credit for employer differential wage payments from partnerships, S corporations, cooperatives,
estates, and trusts (see instructions) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Add lines 2 and 3. Cooperatives, estates, and trusts, go to line 5. Partnerships and S corporations, stop here and
report this amount on Schedule K. All others, stop here and report this amount on Form 3800, Part III, line 1w .
Amount allocated to patrons of the cooperative or beneficiaries of the estate or trust (see
instructions) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Cooperatives, estates, and trusts, subtract line 5 from line 4. Report this amount on Form 3800,
Part III, line 1w . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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

Future Developments
For the latest information about developments related to
Form 8932 and its instructions, such as legislation
enacted after they were published, go to
www.irs.gov/form8932.

What's New
• The credit has been extended to cover eligible
differential wage payments made after 2014.
• For tax years beginning after 2015, employers who are
not eligible small business employers can claim this
credit.

Purpose of Form
Use Form 8932 to claim the credit for eligible differential
wage payments made to qualified employees after 2008.
For tax years beginning before 2016, you must be an
eligible small business employer (defined later) to claim
the credit. The credit is 20% of up to $20,000 of
differential wage payments paid to each qualified
employee during the tax year.
The credit for employer differential wage payments is
part of the general business credit.
Partnerships, S corporations, cooperatives, estates,
and trusts must file this form to claim the credit. All other
taxpayers are not required to complete or file this form if
their only source for this credit is a partnership,
S corporation, cooperative, estate, or trust. Instead, they
can report this credit directly on Form 3800, General
Business Credit.
For details, see section 45P and Notice 2010-15,
2010-6 I.R.B. 390, available at
www.irs.gov/irb/2010-06_IRB/ar09.html.

Definitions
Eligible Differential Wage Payments
Eligible differential wage payments are the total
differential wage payments paid to the employee for the
tax year, up to $20,000.

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Qualified Employee
A qualified employee is an employee of an eligible small
business employer for the 91-day period immediately
preceding the period for which any differential wage
payment is made.
Differential Wage Payment
To be considered a differential wage payment, the
payment must be paid after 2008 and meet both of the
following requirements.
• The payment is made by an eligible small business
employer to a qualified employee for any period during
which the employee is performing service in the
uniformed services of the United States while on active
duty for a period of more than 30 days.
• The payment represents all or a portion of the wages
the employee would have received from the employer if
the employee were performing services for the employer.
Eligible Small Business Employer
An eligible small business employer means any taxpayer
that:
• Employed on average fewer than 50 employees on
business days during the tax year, and
• Under a written plan of the employer, provides eligible
differential wage payments to every qualified employee of
the employer.
Controlled Groups
All persons treated as a single employer under
subsection (b), (c), (m), or (o) of section 414 are treated as
a single employer.
Uniformed Services
Uniformed services means the Armed Forces; the Army
National Guard and the Air National Guard when engaged
in active duty for training, inactive duty training, or fulltime National Guard duty; the commissioned corps of the
Public Health Service; and any other category of persons
designated by the President in time of war or national
emergency.

Coordination With Other Credits
The amount of any research credit or orphan drug credit
otherwise allowable for compensation paid to any
employee is reduced by the credit for differential wage
payments figured for that employee.
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Form 8932 (Rev. 1-2016)

Form 8932 (Rev. 1-2016)

Disallowance for Failure To Comply With
Employment or Reemployment Rights of
Members of the Reserve Components of the
Armed Forces of the United States
No credit will be allowed to a taxpayer for:
• Any tax year beginning after June 17, 2008, in which the
taxpayer is under a final order, judgment, or other
process issued or required by a district court of the
United States under section 4323 of title 38 of the United
States Code with respect to a violation of chapter 43 of
title 38; and
• The two succeeding tax years.

Specific Instructions
Line 1
Enter the total amount of eligible differential wage
payments made to qualified employees during the tax
year. Do not include more than $20,000 of payments for
any employee.
Line 2
Generally, you must reduce your deduction for salaries
and wages by the amount on line 2, even if you cannot
take the full credit this year because of the tax liability
limit. If you capitalized any costs on which you figured the
credit, reduce the amount capitalized by the credit
attributable to these costs.
Line 3
Enter total credits for employer differential wage
payments from:
• Schedule K-1 (Form 1065), Partner's Share of Income,
Deductions, Credits, etc., box 15 (code P);
• Schedule K-1 (Form 1120S), Shareholder's Share of
Income, Deductions, Credits, etc., box 13 (code P);
• Schedule K-1 (Form 1041), Beneficiary's Share of
Income, Deductions, Credits, etc., box 13 (code Q); or
• Form 1099-PATR, Taxable Distributions Received From
Cooperatives, box 10, or other notice of credit allocation.
Partnerships, S corporations, cooperatives, estates,
and trusts must always report the above credits on line 3.
All other filers figuring a separate credit on earlier lines
must also report the above credits on line 3. All others not
using earlier lines to figure a separate credit can report
the above credits directly on Form 3800, Part III, line 1w.
Line 5
Cooperatives. A cooperative described in section
1381(a) must allocate to its patrons the credit in excess
of its tax liability limit. Therefore, to figure the unused
amount of the credit allocated to patrons, the
cooperative must first figure its tax liability. While any
excess is allocated to patrons, any credit recapture
applies as if the cooperative had claimed the credit.

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If the cooperative is subject to the passive activity
rules, include on line 3 any Form 8932 credit from passive
activities disallowed for prior years and carried forward to
this year. Complete Form 8810, Corporate Passive
Activity Loss and Credit Limitations, to determine the
allowed credit that must be allocated to patrons. For
details, see the Instructions for Form 8810.
Estates and trusts. Allocate the credit for employer
differential wage payments on line 4 between the estate
or trust and the beneficiaries in the same proportion as
income was allocated and enter the beneficiaries' share
on line 5.
If the estate or trust is subject to the passive activity
rules, include on line 3 any Form 8932 credit from passive
activities disallowed for prior years and carried forward to
this year. Complete Form 8582-CR, Passive Activity
Credit Limitations, to determine the allowed credit that
must be allocated between the estate or trust and the
beneficiaries. For details, see the Instructions for Form
8582-CR.
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