Form 8830 – Fill Out and Use This PDF

1Qualified enhanced oil recovery costs

2Current year credit. Multiply line 1 by 15% (.15) (see instructions)

	3 Enhanced oil recovery credits		If you are a—	Then enter total of current year credit(s) from—
	from flow-through entities
		a	Shareholder	Schedule K-1	(Form 1120S), lines 12d, 12e, or 13		%
		b	Partner	Schedule K-1	(Form 1065), lines 13d, 13e, or 14

4 Total current year credit. Add lines 2 and 3

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5a	Individuals. Enter amount from Form 1040, line 40			%
b Corporations. Enter am ount from Form 1120, Schedule J, line 3 (or Form 1120- A, Part I, line 1)
c	Other filers. Enter regular tax before credits from your return (see instructions)
6	Credits that reduce regular tax before the general business credit:
a	Credit for child and dependent care expenses (Form 2441, line 10)	6a
b	Credit for the elderly or the disabled (Schedule R (Form 1040), line 21)	6b
c	Mortgage interest credit (Form 8396, line 11)	6c
d	Foreign tax credit (Form 1116, line 32, or Form 1118, Sch. B, line 12)	6d
e	Possessions tax credit (Form 5735)	6e
f	Orphan drug credit (Form 6765, line 10)	6f
g	Credit for fuel from a nonconventional source	6g
h	Qualified electric vehicle credit (Form 8834, line 19)	6h

iAdd lines 6a through 6h

7	Net regular tax. Subtract line 6i from line 5
8	Tentative minimum tax (see instructions):
a	Individuals. Enter amount from Form 6251, line 26	%
b	Corporations. Enter amount from Form 4626, line 13
c	Estates and trusts. Enter amount from Form 1041, Schedule H, line 37
9	Net income tax:
a	Individuals. Add line 7 above and line 28 of Form 6251	%
b	Corporations. Add line 7 above and line 15 of Form 4626
c	Estates and trusts. Add line 7 above and line 39 of Form 1041, Schedule H
10	If line 7 is more than $25,000, enter 25% (.25) of the excess (see instructions)
11	Subtract line 8 or line 10, whichever is greater, from line 9. If less than zero, enter -0-
12	Enhanced oil recovery credit allowed for the current year. Enter the smaller of line 4 or line 11.
	This is your General Business Credit for 1994. Enter here and on Form 1040, line 44; Form 1120,
	Schedule J, line 4e; Form 1120-A, Part I, line 2a; Form 1041, Schedule G, line 2c; or the appropriate
	line of other income tax returns

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General Instructions

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

Purpose of Form

Use Form 8830 to claim the enhanced oil recovery credit. Partnerships and S corporations use the form to figure the credit to pass through to partners and shareholders. The credit is 15% of certain costs paid or incurred in connection with an enhanced oil recovery project.

An owner of an operating mineral interest may claim or elect not to claim this credit on either an original or amended return at any time within 3 years from the due date of the return (determined without regard to extensions).

Amount of Credit

The tentative credit is 15% (.15) of qualified costs for the year. The credit is reduced when the reference price, determined under section 29(d)(2)(C), exceeds $28 per barrel. The $28 value is adjusted for inflation for years after 1991. If the reference price exceeds the base value of $28 (as adjusted by inflation) by more than $6, the credit is zero. For 1994, there is no reduction of the credit.

Definitions

Qualified enhanced oil recovery costs

means:

1.Any amount paid or incurred during the tax year for tangible property—

a. That is an integral part of a qualified enhanced oil recovery project, and

b. For which depreciation (or amortization in lieu of depreciation) is allowable.

2.Any intangible drilling and development costs—

a. That are paid or incurred in connection with a qualified enhanced oil recovery project, and

b. For which the taxpayer may make an election under section 263(c). For an integrated oil company, this includes intangible drilling costs required to be amortized under section 291(b).

3.Any qualified tertiary injectant expenses paid or incurred in connection with a qualified enhanced oil recovery project, and for which a deduction under section 193 is allowable.

Qualified enhanced oil recovery

project means any project involving the application of one or more tertiary recovery methods defined in section 193(b)(3) (and listed below) that can reasonably be expected to result in more than an insignificant increase in the amount of crude oil that will ultimately be recovered. The project must be located within the United States, which includes the seabed and subsoil adjacent to the territorial waters of the United States and over which the United States has exclusive rights by international law for exploration and

exploitation of natural resources (see section 638(1)). The first injection of liquids, gases, or other matter must begin after 1990. However, any significant expansion after 1990 of a project begun before 1991 is treated as a project where the first injection begins after 1990.

Additionally, the operator (or designated owner) must submit a certification from a petroleum engineer that the project meets the above requirements. File this certification with the Internal Revenue Service Center, Austin, TX 73301, by the due date of the operator’s (or designated owner’s) Federal income tax return. The petroleum engineer certifying a project must be duly registered or certified by any state.

The operator (or designated owner) must certify each following year that the project continues to be implemented substantially in accordance with the petroleum engineer’s certification. This continued certification must be filed with the Internal Revenue Service Center, Austin, TX 73301, by the due date for filing the operator’s (or designated owner’s) Federal income tax return.

If the application of a tertiary recovery method is terminated, the operator (or designated owner) must notify the Internal Revenue Service Center, Austin, TX 73301, of the termination by the due date of the operator’s (or designated owner’s) Federal income tax return for the tax year in which the project terminates.

See Regulations section 1.43-3 for the information that these certifications must include.

Tertiary recovery methods qualifying for the credit include:

●Miscible fluid displacement,

●Steam drive injection,

●Microemulsion flooding,

●In situ combustion,

●Polymer-augmented water flooding,

●Cyclic-steam injection,

●Alkaline (or caustic) flooding,

●Carbonated water flooding,

●Immiscible nonhydrocarbon gas displacement, or

●Any other method approved by the Secretary of the Treasury.

Specific Instructions

Part I

Use lines 1 and 2 to figure any enhanced oil recovery credit from your own trade or business. Skip lines 1 and 2 if you are claiming only a credit that was allocated to you from an S corporation or a partnership.

S Corporations and Partnerships

Figure the total credit on lines 1 through 4. Then allocate the line 4 credit among the individual shareholders or partners in the same way that income and loss are shared.

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Line 1.—Enter the total of the qualified costs paid or incurred during the year in connection with a qualified enhanced oil recovery project. See Definitions above.

Line 2.—Enter 15% of line 1 on line 2. This is your current year credit.

You must reduce the otherwise allowable deduction(s) for line 1 costs by the line 2 credit attributable to these costs. Also, if any part of the line 1 costs are for expenditures that increase the basis of property, reduce the otherwise allowable basis increase by the line 2 credit attributable to these costs.

Who Must File Form 3800

If for this year you have more than one of the credits included in the general business credit listed below, or have a carryback or carryforward of any of the credits, or have an investment credit from a passive activity, you must complete Form 3800, General Business Credit, instead of completing Part II of Form 8830 to figure the tax liability limitation.

The general business credit consists of the following credits: Investment (Form 3468), Jobs (Form 5884), Alcohol used as fuel (Form 6478), Research (Form 6765), Low-income housing (Form 8586), Enhanced oil recovery (Form 8830), Disabled access (Form 8826), Renewable electricity production (Form 8835), Indian employment (Form 8845), Employer social security and Medicare taxes paid on certain employee tips (Form 8846), and Contributions to selected community development corporations (Form 8847).

The empowerment zone employment credit (Form 8844), while a component of the general business credit, is figured separately on Form 8844 and is never carried to Form 3800.

Part II

Line 5c.—Form 990-T filers, enter the total of either lines 35c and 37 or lines 36 and 37, whichever applies.

Line 8.—Enter the tentative minimum tax (TMT) that was figured on the appropriate alternative minimum tax (AMT) form or schedule. Although you may not owe AMT, you must still compute the TMT to figure your credit.

Line 10.—See section 38(c)(3) for special rules for married couples filing separate returns, for controlled corporate groups, and for estates and trusts.

Line 12.—Enter the general business credit on the appropriate line of your income tax return.

Note: If you cannot use all of your credit because of the tax liability limitations (line 12 is smaller than line 4), carry any excess back 3 years and then forward to each of the 15 years after the year of the credit. Any unused credit from 1994 cannot be carried back to a tax year beginning before January 1, 1991. See the separate Instructions for Form 3800 for details.