Get IRS 8801 Instructions 2016

Determine your AMT credit. Subtract the amount of AMT credit that you calculated on Form 8801, combined with any AMT credit you have carried forward from previous tax years, from your calculated regular tax for the current year. The amount you calculate equals the amount you can claim as a credit for this tax year.

The Prior-Year Minimum Tax Credit lets you get back money you paid as an Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) in a prior year. You can only claim this credit in a year when you don't have to pay AMT. You can't use the credit to reduce your AMT liability in the future.

The prior year minimum tax credit is a credit for alternative minimum tax (AMT) that you paid in a prior year. If you don't owe AMT for the tax year, but you paid AMT in one or more previous years, you may be eligible to take a credit for prior year minimum tax.

In 2018, the actual AMT Credit would be refundable to the extent of 50 percent of the AMT Credit carryover of $12 million, or $6 million. The refundable amounts in future years would be $3 million in 2019, $1.5 million in 2020, $750 thousand in 2021 and $750 thousand in 2022.

Purpose of Form Use Form 8801 if you are an individual, estate, or trust to figure the minimum tax credit, if any, for alternative minimum tax (AMT) you incurred in prior tax years and to figure any credit carryforward to 2019.

Determine your AMT credit. Subtract the amount of AMT credit that you calculated on Form 8801, combined with any AMT credit you have carried forward from previous tax years, from your calculated regular tax for the current year. The amount you calculate equals the amount you can claim as a credit for this tax year.

The Alternative Minimum Tax is a mandatory alternative to the standard income tax that gets triggered when taxpayers make more than the exemption and use many common itemized deductions. ... As a result, the AMT is projected to affect about 200,000 tax filers per year instead of the 5 million affected in the 2017 tax year.

Purpose of Form Use Form 8801 if you are an individual, estate, or trust to figure the minimum tax credit, if any, for alternative minimum tax (AMT) you incurred in prior tax years and to figure any credit carryforward to 2019.

The AMT is levied at two rates: 26 percent and 28 percent. The AMT exemption amount for 2019 is $71,700 for singles and $111,700 for married couples filing jointly (Table 3). In 2019, the 28 percent AMT rate applies to excess AMTI of $194,800 for all taxpayers ($97,400 for married couples filing separate returns).

For the 2018 tax year, the threshold is $191,500 of AMT taxable income for taxpayers filing as single and as married couples filing jointly. It is $95,750 for married couples filing separately. For the tax year 2017, the threshold was $187,800 of AMTI or $93,900 for those who are married filing separately.

The trigger varies with your regular income tax bracket and the amount of tax preference items you have. The higher your income, the more preference items you need to trigger the AMT.

AMT Overview. 1) Maximize Retirement Contributions. ... 2) FSA/HSA. ... 3) Switch from the Standard Deduction to Itemized. ... 4) Reduce your Taxable Investment Income. ... 5) Replace Private Activity Municipal Bonds. ... 6) Plan your stock options carefully. ... 7) Manage your miscellaneous itemized deductions.

Calculating the AMT is complicated. Taxpayers first calculate their normal adjusted gross income, then add back in certain items. Next, they, subtract the applicable AMT exemption amount, multiply that by the appropriate AMT tax rate and subtract the AMT foreign tax credit to calculate a tentative minimum tax.

The prior year minimum tax credit is a credit for alternative minimum tax (AMT) that you paid in a prior year. If you don't owe AMT for the tax year, but you paid AMT in one or more previous years, you may be eligible to take a credit for prior year minimum tax.