Specific Instructions
Line 4
Enter the date of allocation. This is the date the authorized official of the state housing agency signs and dates the carryover allocation document.
Line 5
Enter the amount of carryover allocation. If you checked the “building based” box on line 3a, enter the amount of credit allocated to the building under section 42(h)(1)(E). If you checked the “project based” box on line 3a, enter the amount of credit allocated to all the buildings in the project under section 42(h)(1)(F).
Lines 6a, 6b, and 6c
Complete these lines only if both of the following apply.
• There is a binding agreement between the housing credit agency and the building owner for a specific housing credit dollar amount.
• An election is made to use an applicable percentage for a month other than the month in which the property is placed in service.
See Regulations sections 1.42-6 and 1.42-8 for requirements that must be met.
The applicable percentage cannot be less than 9% for any building that (1) is not federally subsidized, and (2) is placed in service after July 30, 2008. See section 42(b)(2) and Notice 2008-106, 2008-49 I.R.B. 1239.
The applicable percentage cannot be less than 4% for any new or existing federally subsidized building that is placed in service by the taxpayer after December 31, 2020. For the minimum 4% rate to apply, a building must also receive an allocation of housing credit dollar amount after December 31, 2020, or have a portion of the building financed with an obligation described in section 42(h)(4)(A) that is issued after December 31, 2020. See section 42(b)(3) and section 201(b) of the Taxpayer Certainty and Disaster Act of 2020 (Division EE of P.L. 116-260), and also Rev. Rul. 2021-20, 2021-51 I.R.B. 875, and Rev. Proc. 2021-43, 2021-51 I.R.B. 882.