Videocast: Section 45Q Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) credit
Last year’s Inflation Reduction Act created the Low-Income Communities Bonus Credit Program. This program provides additional energy tax credits on top of the existing 30% investment tax credit. According to Section 48(e) of...more
In February 2020, the IRS issued Notice 2020-12, which provides long-awaited guidance on when a “qualified facility” or carbon capture equipment, in each case within the meaning of section 45Q, is considered to have “begun...more
Earlier in the year, the IRS released Revenue Procedure 2020-12, which establishes a safe harbor for the allocation of section 45Q credits in so-called “partnership flip structures” and the equity treatment of tax equity...more
The guidance issued on February 19 by the Internal Revenue Service is the type that the carbon capture and storage industry had sought, and will hopefully open up the market for investment by eliminating tax-related...more
Treasury and the IRS released initial guidance on the amended Section 45Q carbon oxide sequestration credit on February 19, 2020. Notice 2020-12 and Revenue Procedure 2020-12 provide guidance relating to the beginning of...more
In Private Letter Ruling 201946007, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) allowed a tax equity investor to participate with a regulated utility in a tax equity financing arrangement for wind investments without being subject to...more
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently published Revenue Procedure 2018-50, which provides the inflation-adjustment factors and reference prices to be used in the calculation of renewable energy production tax credits...more
On September 7, 2017, the IRS issued Revenue Procedure 2017-47, which provides a safe harbor for regulated public utilities for inadvertent or unintentional uses of a practice or procedure that is inconsistent with the...more
On January 19, 2017, the IRS released an advance version of Revenue Procedure 2017-19, which provides a safe harbor (the "Safe Harbor") under which the IRS will not challenge the treatment of an Energy Savings Performance...more