990-T Instructions for Form 990-T

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2021

Instructions for Form 990-T

Department of the Treasury
Internal Revenue Service

Exempt Organization Business Income Tax Return (and Proxy Tax Under Section
6033(e))

DRAFT AS OF
November 24, 2021
What's New

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

Purpose of Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Who Must File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
When, Where, and How to File . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Depository Method of Tax Payment . . . . . . . . . . .
Other Forms That May Be Required . . . . . . . . . . .
Accounting Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Specific Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Items A through L . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Part I. Total Unrelated Business Taxable Income . .
Part II. Tax Computation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Part III. Tax and Payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Part IV. Statements Regarding Certain Activities
and Other Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Part V. Supplemental Information . . . . . . . . . . . . .
General Instructions – Schedule A (Form 990-T) .
Purpose of the Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Specific Instructions – Schedule A (Form 990-T) .
Part I. Unrelated Trade or Business Income . . . . .
Part II. Deductions Not Taken Elsewhere . . . . . . .
Part III. Cost of Goods Sold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Part IV. Rent Income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Part V. Unrelated Debt-Financed Income . . . . . . .
Part VI. Interest, Annuities, Royalties, and Rents
From Controlled Organizations . . . . . . . . . . .
Part VII. Investment Income of a Section 501(c)(7),
(9), or (17) Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Part VIII. Exploited Exempt Activity Income, Other
Than Advertising Income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Part IX. Advertising Income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Part X. Compensation of Officers, Directors, and
Trustees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Part XI. Supplemental Information . . . . . . . . . . . .
Business Activity Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Appendix A. Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Appendix B. Charitable Contribution Deduction . . .
Appendix C. Public Inspection of Form 990-T
Returns Filed by Section 501(c)(3)
Organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Reminders

Mandatory electronic filing. Mandatory electronic filing of the
Form 990-T started in February 2021. See When, Where, and
How To File, later, for more information.
Separate UBTI calculation for each trade or business.
Organizations with more than one unrelated trade or business
must compute unrelated business taxable income (UBTI),
including for purposes of determining any net operating loss
deduction, separately with respect to each trade or business.
See Schedule A (Form 990-T). The UBTI with respect to any
such trade or business shall not be less than zero when
computing total UBTI.

Qualified opportunity investment. If you deferred a capital
gain into a qualified opportunity fund (QOF), attach Schedule D,
Form 8949, and Form 8997, Initial and Annual Statement of
Qualified Opportunity Fund (QOF) Investments, to your return.
You will need to file Form 990-T with Form 8997 attached
annually until you dispose of the investment. See the Instructions
for Form 8997.
Qualified business income deduction. If you are a trust filing
Form 990-T and have unrelated business income, you may have
Qualified Business Income (QBI) and may be allowed a QBI
deduction under section 199A. See Part I, line 9, later, for more
information.

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Adjustments to tax attributable to partner's audit liability.
If your organization received Form 8986, Partner's Share of
Adjustment(s) to Partnership-Related Item(s), from one or more
partnerships that have elected to push out adjustments to
partnership-related items to their partners, see the instructions
for Part II, line 4 and Part III, line 1b.

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Omit SSN information. Don't include social security numbers
on publicly disclosed forms. Because the IRS is required to
publicly disclose a 501(c)(3) organization’s Form 990-T returns,
social security numbers should not be included on this form.
Documents subject to disclosure include schedules. See Public
Inspection Requirements of Section 501(c)(3) Organizations,
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For the latest information about developments related to Form
990-T and its instructions, such as legislation enacted after they
were published, go to IRS.gov/Form990T.

Nov 24, 2021

Temporary allowance of 100% for business meals. An
organization is allowed a 100% deduction for certain business
meal expenses paid or incurred in 2021 and 2022. See Travel,
meals, and entertainment, later.

General Instructions
Purpose of Form

Use Form 990-T and Schedule A (as applicable) to:
• Report unrelated business income;
• Figure and report unrelated business income tax liability;
• Report proxy tax liability;
• Claim a refund of income tax paid by a regulated investment
company (RIC) or a real estate investment trust (REIT), on
undistributed long-term capital gain; and

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• Request a credit for certain federal excise taxes paid or for
small employer health insurance premiums paid.

Organizations With or Without Current UBTI

Proxy tax. Organizations liable for the proxy tax on lobbying
and political expenditures. See Part II, line 3. Proxy Tax, later, for
a discussion of the proxy tax. If your organization is only required
to file because of the proxy tax, see Proxy Tax Only under Which
Parts To Complete, later.
Other taxes or amounts. Organizations that are liable for
other taxes (such as tax deferred under section 1291 (Form
990-T, Part II, line 4) or 1294 (Part III, line 4)), or organizations
liable for other amounts due (or entitled to a refund of, or credit
for other amounts such as recapture of tax credits or interest
adjustments (such as recapture of a credit or interest due under
a look-back rule (Form 990-T, Part III, line 3)). See a discussion
of these items, later. If your organization is required to file Form
990-T only because of these taxes or other amounts, see Other
Taxes under Which Parts To Complete, later.
Qualified opportunity investment (annual report).
Organizations that deferred a capital gain into a qualified
opportunity fund (QOF) must file Form 990-T with Schedule D,
Form 8949, and Form 8997 attached. Each such organization
must file Form 990-T with Form 8997 attached annually until the
organization disposes of the investment. See the Instructions for
Form 8997.

Who Must File
Organizations with Current UBTI
• Any disregarded entity, domestic, or foreign organization

exempt under section 501(a), section 529(a), or section
529A(a), if it has gross income of $1,000 or more from a
regularly conducted unrelated trade or business (see
Regulations section 1.6012-2(e)). Gross income is gross
receipts minus the cost of goods sold (see Regulations section
1.61-3). For a discussion of cost of goods sold see Schedule A
(Form 990-T), Part III. Cost of Goods Sold, later.

DRAFT AS OF
November 24, 2021
The gross receipts from a gaming business include all
amounts wagered in games, not just the net proceeds
CAUTION after payment of prizes and other expenses. Cash prizes
aren't included in cost of goods sold but are reported on
Schedule A, Part II, Line 14 as other deductions.

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A disregarded entity, as described in Regulations
sections 301.7701-1 through 301.7701-3, is treated as a
CAUTION branch or division of its parent organization for federal
tax purposes. Therefore, financial information applicable to a
disregarded entity must be reported as the parent organization's
financial information.

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If you are filing Form 990-T only because of the proxy

TIP tax, other taxes, or only to claim a refund, go directly to

Proxy Tax Only, Other Taxes, or Claim for Refund, later.
If you are filing Form 990-T only to claim the credit for small
employer health insurance premiums, see the instructions for
Part III, line 6f, later.

• Colleges and universities of states and other governmental
units, and subsidiary corporations wholly owned by such
colleges and universities. However, a section 501(c)(1)
corporation that is an instrumentality of the United States and
both organized and exempt from tax by an Act of Congress
doesn’t have to file.
• Qualified tuition programs described under section 529 that
have $1,000 or more of unrelated trade or business gross
income.
• Qualified ABLE programs described under section 529A that
have $1,000 or more of unrelated trade or business gross
income.
• Trustees for the following trusts that have $1,000 or more of
unrelated trade or business gross income:
1. Individual retirement accounts (IRAs), including traditional
IRAs described under section 408(a),
2. Simplified employee pension IRAs (SEP IRAs) described
under section 408(k),
3. Savings incentive match plan for employees of small
employers IRAs (SIMPLE IRAs) described under section 408(p),
4. Roth IRAs described under section 408A,
5. Coverdell education savings accounts (ESAs) described
under section 530,
6. Archer medical savings accounts (Archer MSAs) described
under section 220, and
7. Health savings accounts (HSAs) described under section 223.

Which Parts to Complete

Organizations with unrelated business taxable income.
Organizations with unrelated business taxable income must
complete Form 990-T, and also a separate Schedule A (Form
990-T) for each separate unrelated trade or business. See
Regulations section 1.512(a)-6. Complete all Schedules A (Form
990-T) first. See Instructions for Schedule A, later.
Consolidated returns. The consolidated return provisions of
section 1501 don't apply to exempt organizations, except for
organizations having title holding companies. If a title holding
corporation described in section 501(c)(2) pays any amount of
its net income for a tax year to an organization exempt from tax
under section 501(a) (or would, except that the expenses of
collecting its income exceeded that income), and the corporation
and organization file a consolidated return as described below,
then treat the title holding corporation as being organized and
operated for the same purposes as the other exempt
organization (in addition to the purposes described in section
501(c)(2)).
Two organizations exempt from tax under section 501(a), one
a title holding company and the other earning income from the
first, will be includible corporations for purposes of section
1504(a). If the organizations meet the definition of an affiliated
group and the other relevant provisions of Chapter 6 of the
Code, then these organizations may file a consolidated return.
The parent organization must attach Form 851, Affiliations
Schedule, to the consolidated return. For the first year a
consolidated return is filed, the title holding company must
attach Form 1122, Authorization and Consent of Subsidiary
Corporation To Be Included in a Consolidated Income Tax
Return. See Regulations section 1.1502-100.

Each account of a type listed above is treated as a

TIP separate trust for unrelated business income tax

purposes (even if there is a single owner or beneficiary
for multiple accounts and must have its own EIN if it will file Form
990-T to report gross unrelated business taxable income of
$1,000 or more). A custodian is treated as a trustee. See section
408(h). Individual retirement annuities, unlike individual
retirement accounts, aren't subject to unrelated business income
tax.

Organizations with no unrelated business taxable income.
An organization with no unrelated business taxable income that
needs to file Form 990-T should complete and file Form 990-T
only. Such an organization does not complete or attach
Schedule A (Form 990-T) to its return.

IRAs and other tax-exempt shareholders in a RIC or
TIP REIT filing Form 990-T only to obtain a refund of income
tax paid on undistributed long-term capital gains should
complete Form 990-T as explained in IRAs and other tax-exempt
shareholders in a RIC or REIT, later.
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MSA must file Form 990-T by the 15th day of the 4th month after
the end of its tax year. All other organizations must file Form
990-T by the 15th day of the 5th month after the end of their tax
years. If the regular due date falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or
legal holiday, file no later than the next business day. If the return
is filed late, see Interest and Penalties, later.

Proxy tax only. Organizations that are required to file Form
990-T only because they are liable for the proxy tax on lobbying
and political expenditures must complete the following.
• The heading (above Part I) except items J and K;
• Part II, lines 3 and 7;
• Part III;
• Signature area; and
• Attach a statement showing the proxy tax computation.
Other taxes. Organizations that are required to file Form
990-T only because they are liable for tax previously deferred
(such as under section 1291 or section 1294), recapture taxes,
the tax on a hospital organization’s non-compliant facility
income, or other items listed in the instructions for Part III, line 4,
must complete the following.
• The heading above Part I except items J and K;
• The applicable lines of Parts II and III;
• Signature area; and
• Attach all appropriate forms and/or schedules showing the
computation of the applicable tax or taxes.
Other amounts due. Organizations that are required to file
Form 990-T only because they are liable for amounts due
because of the recapture of a tax credit, or other items listed in
the instructions for Part III, line 3, must complete the following.
• The heading above Part I except items J and K;
• The applicable lines of Parts II and III that require an entry;
• Signature area; and
• Attach all appropriate forms and/or schedules showing the
computation of the applicable tax or taxes.

Extensions. Filers may request an automatic extension of time
to file Form 990-T by using Form 8868, Application for Automatic
Extension of Time To File an Exempt Organization Return.

DRAFT AS OF
November 24, 2021
Amended return. To correct errors or change a previously filed
return, check box F, at the top of the return. Also, in Part V,
“Supplemental Information,” include a statement that indicates
the line numbers on the original return that were changed and
give the reason for each change. Generally, the amended return
must be filed within 3 years after the date the original return was
due or 3 years after the date the organization filed it, whichever
is later.

Where and how to file

Mandatory electronic filing. Mandatory electronic filing of
Form 990-T started in February 2021. For additional information
on the electronic filing, visit IRS.gov/Efile.

Estimated Tax Payments

Generally, an organization filing Form 990-T must make
installment payments of estimated tax if its estimated tax (tax
minus allowable credits) is expected to be $500 or more. Both
corporate and trust organizations use Form 990-W, Estimated
Tax on Unrelated Business Taxable Income for Tax-Exempt
Organizations, to figure their estimated tax liability. Don't include
the proxy tax when computing your estimated tax liability for
2021.

Claim for refund (including special instructions for IRA
trustees). If your only reason for filing a Form 990-T is to claim
a refund, complete the following:
• The heading above Part I except items J and K;
• Enter -0- on Part I, lines 1 and 11, and Part III, line 4;
• Enter the credit or payment on Part III, lines 6a through 6g, as
appropriate;
• Part III, lines 7, 10, and 11; and
• Signature area.
For claims described below, follow the additional instructions
for that claim.
IRAs and other tax-exempt shareholders in a RIC or
REIT. If you are an IRA or other tax-exempt shareholder that is
invested in a RIC or a REIT and file Form 990-T only to obtain a
refund of income tax paid on undistributed long-term capital
gains, follow steps above under Claim for Refund (including
special instructions for IRA trustees); check the applicable box in
item H at the top of Form 990-T; and attach Copy B of Form
2439, Notice to Shareholder of Undistributed Long-Term Capital
Gains.
Composite Form 990-T. If you are a trustee of more than
one IRA invested in a RIC, you may be able to file a composite
Form 990-T to claim a refund of tax under section 852(b) instead
of filing a separate Form 990-T for each IRA. See Notice 90-18,
1990-1 C.B. 327, for information on who can file a composite
return. Complete steps above under Claim For Refund (including
special instructions for IRA trustees) and follow the additional
requirements in the notice.
Backup withholding. If your only reason for filing Form
990-T is to claim a refund of backup withholding, complete steps
above under Claim for Refund (including special instructions for
IRA trustees) and attach a copy of the Form 1099 showing the
withholding.

To figure estimated tax, only trusts must take the alternative
minimum tax (if applicable) into account. See Form 990-W for
more information.

Depository Method of Tax Payment

The organization must pay any tax due in full by the due date of
the return without extension.

Electronic Deposit Requirement
The organization must deposit all depository taxes (such as
employment tax, excise tax, and corporate income tax)
electronically. Generally, electronic fund transfers are made
using the Electronic Federal Tax Payment System (EFTPS). For
more information about EFTPS or to enroll in EFTPS, visit the
EFTPS website at EFPTS.gov, or call 1-800-555-4477
(TTY/TDD 1-800-733-4829). You can also get Pub. 966,
Electronic Federal Tax Payment System: A Guide to Getting
Started.
Depositing on time. For EFTPS deposits to be made timely,
the organization must submit the deposit by 8 p.m. Eastern time
the day before the deposit is due.
Same-day wire payment option. If you fail to submit a deposit
transaction on EFTPS by 8 p.m. eastern time the day before the
date a deposit is due, you can still make your deposit on time by
using the Federal Tax Application (FTA), a same-day federal tax
payment system that works in conjunction with EFTPS. Make
arrangements with your financial institution ahead of time, noting
the institution's availability, deadlines, and costs, if you believe
you would ever need the same-day wire payment option. To
learn more, visit IRS.gov/SameDayWire.

When, Where, and How to File
When to file
15th day of 4th month or 15th day of 5th month. An
employees' trust defined in section 401(a), an IRA (including
SEPs and SIMPLEs), a Roth IRA, a Coverdell ESA, or an Archer
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Timeliness of deposits. The IRS will use business days to
determine the timeliness of deposits. Business days are any day
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that isn’t a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday in the District of
Columbia.

Forms W-2 and W-3. File Form W-2, Wage and Tax
Statement, and Form W-3, Transmittal of Wage and Tax
Statements, to report wages, tips, other compensation, withheld
income taxes, and withheld social security/Medicare taxes for
employees.

Interest and Penalties

Your organization may be subject to interest and penalty
charges if it files a late return or fails to pay tax when due.
Generally, the organization isn't required to include interest and
penalty charges on Form 990-T because the IRS can figure the
amount and bill the organization for it.

Form 461. Noncorporate taxpayers may need to file Form 461,
Limitation on Business Losses. See Form 461 and its
instructions.

DRAFT AS OF
November 24, 2021
Interest. Interest is charged on taxes not paid by the original
due date for the return even if the organization uses Form 8868
to request an automatic extension of time to file. Interest is also
charged on penalties imposed for failure to file, negligence,
fraud, substantial valuation misstatements, and substantial
understatements of tax from the due date (including extension)
to the date of payment. The interest charge is figured at the
underpayment rate determined under section 6621.

Form 720. File Form 720, Quarterly Federal Excise Tax Return,
to report environmental excise taxes, communications and air
transportation taxes, fuel taxes, manufacturer's taxes, ship
passenger tax, and certain other excise taxes. See Trust fund
recovery penalty, earlier.
Form 926. File Form 926, Return by a U.S. Transferor of
Property to a Foreign Corporation, if the organization is required
to report certain transfers to foreign corporations under section
6038B.

Late filing of return. An organization that fails to file its return
when due (including extension of time for filing) is subject to a
penalty of 5% of the unpaid tax for each month or part of a month
the return is late, up to a maximum of 25% of the unpaid tax. The
minimum penalty for a return that is more than 60 days late is the
smaller of the tax due or $435. The penalty won't be imposed if
the organization can show that the failure to file on time was due
to reasonable cause. If you receive a notice about a penalty after
you file this return, reply to the notice with an explanation and we
will determine if you meet reasonable-cause criteria. Don’t
include an explanation when you file your return.

Form 940. File Form 940, Employer's Annual Federal
Unemployment (FUTA) Tax Return, if the organization is liable
for FUTA tax.

Form 941 and Form 943. File Form 941, Employer's
QUARTERLY Federal Tax Return, or Form 943, Employer's
Annual Federal Tax Return for Agricultural Employees, to report
income tax withheld, and employer and employee social security
and Medicare taxes. Also, see Trust fund recovery penalty,
earlier.

Late payment of tax. The penalty for late payment of taxes is
usually 1/2 of 1% of the unpaid tax for each month or part of a
month the tax is unpaid. The penalty can’t exceed 25% of the
unpaid tax. If you receive a notice about a penalty after you file
this return, reply to the notice with an explanation and we will
determine if you meet reasonable-cause criteria. Don’t include
an explanation when you file your return.

Form 945. File Form 945, Annual Return of Withheld Federal
Income Tax, to report income tax withheld from nonpayroll
distributions or payments, including pensions, annuities, IRAs,
gambling winnings, and backup withholding.
Form 965-A, and Form 965-B. See Form 965-A, Individual
Report of Net 965 Tax Liability; and Form 965-B, Corporate and
Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) Report of Net 965 Tax
Liability and Electing REIT Report of 965 Amounts; and their
respective instructions, for more information.

Estimated tax penalty. An organization that doesn’t make
estimated tax payments when due may be subject to an
underpayment penalty for the period of underpayment.
Generally, an organization is subject to this penalty if its tax
liability for the tax year is $500 or more and it didn’t make
estimated tax payments of at least the smaller of its tax liability
for the tax year or 100% of the prior year's tax. See section 6655
for details and exceptions.

Form 1098. File Form 1098, Mortgage Interest Statement, to
report the receipt from any individual of $600 or more of
mortgage interest (including points) in the course of the
organization's trade or business and reimbursements of
overpaid interest.

Trust fund recovery penalty. This penalty may apply if certain
excise, income, social security, and Medicare taxes that must be
collected or withheld aren't paid to the United States Treasury.
These taxes are generally reported on:
• Form 720, Quarterly Federal Excise Tax Return;
• Form 941, Employer's Quarterly Federal Tax Return;
• Form 943, Employer's Annual Federal Tax Return for
Agricultural Employees; or
• Form 945, Annual Return of Withheld Federal Income Tax.
The trust fund recovery penalty may be imposed on all
persons who are determined by the IRS to have been
responsible for collecting, accounting for, and paying over these
taxes, and who acted willfully in not doing so. The penalty is
equal to the unpaid trust fund tax. See the Instructions for Form
720; Pub. 15 (Circular E), Employer's Tax Guide; or Pub. 51
(Circular A), Agricultural Employer's Tax Guide, for details,
including the definition of responsible persons.

Forms 1099-A, B, DIV, INT, LTC, MISC, NEC, OID, R, S, and
SA. Organizations engaged in an unrelated trade or business
may be required to:
• File an information return on Forms 1099-A, B, DIV, INT, LTC,
MISC, NEC, OID, R, S, and SA;
• Report acquisitions or abandonments of secured property
through foreclosure;
• Report proceeds from broker and barter exchange
transactions;
• Report certain dividends and distributions;
• Report interest income;
• Report certain payments made on a per diem basis under a
long-term care insurance contract, and certain accelerated
death benefits;
• Report miscellaneous income (such as payments to providers
of health and medical services, and miscellaneous income
payments);
• Report nonemployee compensation;
• Report original issue discount;
• Report distributions from retirement or profit-sharing plans,
IRAs, SEPs, SIMPLEs, insurance contracts;
• Report proceeds from real estate transactions; and

Other penalties. There are also penalties that can be imposed
for negligence, substantial understatement of tax, reportable
transaction understatements, and fraud. See sections 6662,
6662A, and 6663.

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• Report distributions from an HSA, Archer MSA, or Medicare
Advantage MSA.

Form 8810. File Form 8810, Corporate Passive Activity Loss
and Credit Limitations, for closely held corporations that have
losses or credits (including prior year unallowed losses and
credits) from passive activities.

When filing the above listed Form 1099 series
information returns, the organization must also file Form
CAUTION 1096, Annual Summary and Transmittal of U.S.
Information Returns.

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Form 8865. File Form 8865, Return of U.S. Persons With
Respect To Certain Foreign Partnerships, if the organization:
1. Controlled a foreign partnership (that is, owned more than
a 50% direct or indirect interest in the partnership).
2. Owned at least a 10% direct or indirect interest in a
foreign partnership while U.S. persons controlled that
partnership.
3. Had an acquisition, disposition, or change in proportional
interest in a foreign partnership that:
a. Increased its direct interest to at least 10% or reduced its
direct interest of at least 10% to less than 10%.
b. Changed its direct interest by at least a 10% interest.
4. Contributed property to a foreign partnership in exchange
for a partnership interest if:
a. Immediately after the contribution, the organization
directly or indirectly owned at least a 10% interest in the foreign
partnership; or
b. The FMV of the property the organization contributed to
the foreign partnership in exchange for a partnership interest,
when added to other contributions of property made to the
foreign partnership by the organization or a related person
during the preceding 12-month period, exceeds $100,000.

Form 4466. File Form 4466, Corporation Application for Quick
Refund of Overpayment of Estimated Tax, to apply for a quick
refund if the organization overpaid its estimated tax for the year
by at least 10% of its expected income tax liability and at least
$500.

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November 24, 2021
Form 5498. File Form 5498, IRA Contribution Information, to
report contributions (including rollover contributions) to any IRA,
including a SEP, SIMPLE, Roth IRA, and to report Roth IRA
conversions, IRA recharacterizations, and the fair market value
(FMV) of the account.
Form 5498-ESA. File Form 5498-ESA, Coverdell ESA
Contribution Information, to report contributions (including
rollover contributions) to a Coverdell education savings account
(ESA).

Form 5498-SA. File Form 5498-SA, HSA, Archer MSA, or
Medicare Advantage MSA Information, to report contributions to
an HSA or Archer MSA and the fair market value of an HSA,
Archer MSA, or Medicare Advantage MSA. See the Instructions
for Forms 1099-SA and 5498-SA.
Form 5713. File Form 5713, International Boycott Report, if the
organization had operations in, or related to, certain “boycotting”
countries.

Also, the organization may have to file Form 8865 to report
certain dispositions by a foreign partnership of property it
previously contributed to that foreign partnership if it was a
partner at the time of the disposition. See Form 8865 and its
separate instructions.

Form 5884-C. File Form 5884-C, Work Opportunity Credit for
Qualified Tax-Exempt Organizations Hiring Qualified Veterans,
to claim the work opportunity credit for qualified first-year wages
paid to qualified veterans who begin working for the organization
on or after November 22, 2011, and before January 1, 2026.

Form 8886. File Form 8886, Reportable Transaction Disclosure
Statement, to disclose information for each reportable
transaction in which the organization participated. Form 8886
must be filed for each tax year that the federal income tax liability
of the organization is affected by its participation in the
transaction. The organization may have to pay a penalty if it is
required to file Form 8886 but doesn’t do so. The following are
reportable transactions.
• Any listed transaction that is the same as, or substantially
similar to tax avoidance transactions identified by the IRS.
• Any transaction offered under conditions of confidentiality for
which the organization paid an advisor a fee of at least
$250,000.
• Certain transactions for which the organization has
contractual protection against disallowance of the tax benefits.
• Any transaction resulting in a loss of at least $10 million in any
single year or $20 million in any combination of years.
• Certain transactions identified by the IRS in published
guidance as a “transaction of interest” (a transaction that the IRS
believes has a potential for tax avoidance or evasion, but hasn’t
yet been identified as a listed transaction).

Form 5884-D. File Form 5884-D, Employee Retention Credit
for Certain Tax-Exempt Organizations Affected by Qualified
Disasters, to claim the employee retention credit against certain
payroll taxes if activities of the organization became inoperable
because of damage from a qualified disaster. See the
instructions for Form 5884-D for more information.
Form 6198. File Form 6198, At-Risk Limitations, if the
organization has a loss from an at-risk activity conducted as a
trade or business or for the production of income.
Form 8275 and 8275-R. Taxpayers and income tax return
preparers file Form 8275, Disclosure Statement, and Form
8275-R, Regulation Disclosure Statement, to disclose items or
positions taken on a tax return or that are contrary to Treasury
regulations (to avoid parts of the accuracy-related penalty or
certain preparer penalties).
Form 8300. File Form 8300, Report of Cash Payments Over
$10,000 Received in a Trade or Business, if the organization
received more than $10,000 in cash or foreign currency in one
transaction or in a series of related transactions. See Form 8300
and Regulations section 1.6050I-1(c).

Form 8886-T. File Form 8886-T, Disclosure by Tax-Exempt
Entity Regarding Prohibited Tax Shelter Transaction, to disclose
information with respect to each prohibited tax shelter
transaction to which the organization is a party.
Penalties. The organization may have to pay a penalty if it is
required to disclose a reportable transaction under section 6011
and fails to properly complete and file Form 8886. The penalty is
$50,000 ($200,000 if the reportable transaction is a listed
transaction) for each failure to file Form 8886 with its return or for
failure to provide a copy of Form 8886 to the Office of Tax
Shelter Analysis (OTSA). Other penalties, such as an
accuracy-related penalty under section 6662A, may also apply.
See the Instructions for Form 8886 for details.

Form 8582. File Form 8582, Passive Activity Loss Limitations,
for trusts that have losses (including prior year unallowed losses)
from passive activities.
Form 8697. File Form 8697, Interest Computation Under the
Look-Back Method for Completed Long-Term Contracts, to
figure the interest due or to be refunded under the look-back
method of section 460(b)(2). The look-back method applies to
certain long-term contracts that are accounted for under either
the percentage method or the completion-capitalized cost
method.
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report revenue and expenses for federal income tax purposes.
An accounting method includes not only the overall plan of
accounting for gross income or deductions (for example, an
accrual method or the cash receipts and disbursement method),
but also the treatment of an item used in such overall plan.
However, a practice that does not affect the timing for reporting
an item of income or deduction for purposes of determining
taxable income is not an accounting method. A taxpayer,
including a tax-exempt entity, adopts any permissible accounting
method in the first year in which it uses the method in
determining its taxable income. See Rev. Proc. 2015-13, 2015-5
I.R.B. 419.

Form 8899. File Form 8899, Notice of Income From Donated
Intellectual Property, to report income from qualified intellectual
property.
Form 8925. File Form 8925, Report of Employer-Owned Life
Insurance Contracts, which must be filed by every applicable
policyholder owning one or more employer-owned life insurance
contracts issued after August 17, 2006.

DRAFT AS OF
November 24, 2021
Form 8975. Certain United States persons that are the ultimate
parent entity of a United States multinational enterprise group
with annual revenue for the preceding reporting period of $850
million or more are required to file Form 8975. Form 8975 and its
Schedules A (Form 8975) must be filed with the income tax
return of the ultimate parent entity of a U.S. multinational
enterprise group for the tax year in or within which the reporting
period covered by Form 8975 ends. For more information, see
Form 8975, Schedule A (Form 8975), and the Instructions for
Form 8975 and Schedule A (Form 8975).

An exempt organization may adopt an accounting
method not only for purposes of calculating taxable
CAUTION income, but also for purposes of determining whether
taxable income will be subject to federal income tax. For
example, a tax-exempt entity may adopt an accounting method
for an item of income from an unrelated trade or business activity
even if the gross income from the activity is less than $1,000 and
is therefore not taxed for federal income tax purposes pursuant
to Regulations section 1.6012-2(e).

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Form 8978. File Form 8978, Partner's Additional Reporting
Year Tax, to report adjustments shown on Form 8986, Partner's
Share of Adjustment(s) to Partnership-Related Items, received
from a partnership that has elected to push out adjustments to
partnership-related items to their partners.

An accounting method for an item of income or deduction
generally may be adopted separately for each of the taxpayer’s
trades or businesses. However, in order to be permissible, an
accounting method must clearly reflect the taxpayer’s income.
Unless instructed otherwise, the organization generally should
use the same accounting method on the Form 990-T and all
schedules to report revenue and expenses that it regularly uses
to keep its books and records.

Form 8990. File Form 8990, Limitation on Business Interest
Expense Under Section IRC 163(j), to claim a deduction for
business interest unless the taxpayer meets certain specified
exceptions. Also, Form 8990 must be filed by any taxpayer that
owns an interest in a partnership with current year or prior year
carryover excess business interest expense allocated from the
partnership.

Accounting method change. Once a taxpayer, including a
tax-exempt entity, adopts an accounting method for federal
income tax purposes, the taxpayer generally must request the
IRS’s consent before it can change its accounting method (even
if the year in which the taxpayer seeks to make the change is a
year in which it generates only tax-exempt income or is
otherwise not taxed on its taxable income). In most cases a
taxpayer requests consent to change an accounting method by
filing Form 3115, Application for Change in Accounting Method.
See Rev. Proc. 2015-13, or any successor, for general
procedures for obtaining consent to change an accounting
method.
Depending on the specific accounting method change being
requested, the taxpayer may be able to request automatic
consent. This means that as long as the taxpayer follows the
applicable procedures, the taxpayer does not have to wait for
formal approval by the IRS before applying the new accounting
method. See Rev. Proc. 2019-43, 2019-48 I.R.B. 1107, or its
successor, for a list of accounting method changes that may
qualify for automatic consent.
For example, a tax-exempt entity that has adopted an
accounting method for an item of income from an unrelated
trade or business generally must request consent before it can
change its method of accounting for that item in any subsequent
year. This is true regardless of whether gross income from the
unrelated trade or business is $1,000 or more in such
subsequent year.
Alternatively, if a taxpayer, including a tax-exempt entity, has
not yet adopted an accounting method for an item of income or
deduction, a change in how the entity reports the item is not a
change in accounting method. In this case, the procedures
applicable to requests for accounting method changes (the
requirement to file Form 3115) are not applicable. See Rev.
Proc. 2015-13 for the definition of what constitutes an
accounting method change.
Thus, a tax-exempt entity that has never taken into account
an item of income or deduction in determining taxable income
does not have to request consent to change its method of

Form 8991. File Form 8991, Tax on Base Erosion Payments of
Taxpayers With Substantial Gross Receipts, for any corporation,
other than a regulated investment company, a real estate
investment trust, or an S corporation, that has average annual
gross receipts for the 3-tax-year period ending with the
preceding tax year of at least $500 million.
Form 8993. File Form 8993, Section 250 Deduction for
Foreign-Derived Intangible Income (FDII) and Global Intangible
Low-Taxed Income (GILTI), for the allowance of a deduction for
the eligible percentage of FDII. The deduction is allowed only to
domestic corporations (not including real estate investment
trusts (REITs), regulated investment companies (RICs), and S
corporations).
Form 8994. File Form 8994, Employer Credit for Paid Family
and Medical Leave, to figure the employer credit for paid leave.
Form 8995. Refer to Form 8995, Qualified Business Income
Deduction Simplified Computation, if you are a trust filing Form
990-T and have unrelated business income, to determine if you
have Qualified Business Income (QBI) and may be allowed a
QBI deduction under section 199A. See instructions for line Part
I, line 9.
Form 8995-A. Refer to Form 8995, Qualified Business Income
Deduction Simplified Computation, if you are a trust filing Form
990-T and have unrelated business income, to determine if you
have Qualified Business Income (QBI) and may be allowed a
QBI deduction under section 199A. See instructions for Part I,
line 9.
Form 8997. File Form 8997, Initial and Annual Statement of
Opportunity Fund Investments, annually to report investments
held in a qualified opportunity fund at any time during the year.
See the Instructions for Form 8997.

Accounting Methods

An accounting method, for federal income tax purposes, is a
practice a taxpayer follows to determine the year in which to
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deduction claimed on Part I, line 8, or any expense carryovers
from prior years) reported on Form 990-T for the same tax year.

reporting that item on its Form 990-T. Additionally, a tax-exempt
entity that has never been subject to federal income tax on an
item of income or deduction, but that is required to file a Form
990-T solely due to owing a section 6033(e)(2) proxy tax, does
not have to request consent to change its method for reporting
the item.
Adjustments required when changing an accounting
method. A taxpayer, including a tax-exempt entity, that
changes its accounting method generally must calculate and
report an adjustment to ensure that no portion of the item being
changed is permanently omitted or duplicated (see section
481(a)). However, depending on the specific method change,
the IRS may provide that an adjustment is not required or
permitted.

Rounding Off to Whole Dollars
You may round off cents to whole dollars on the organization’s
return and schedules. If you do round to whole dollars, you must
round all amounts. To round, drop amounts under 50 cents and
increase amounts from 50 to 99 cents to the next dollar. For
example $1.39 become $1 and $2.50 becomes $3. If you have
to add two or more amounts to figure the amount to enter on a
line, include cents when adding the amounts and round off only
the total. If you are entering amounts that include cents, make
sure to include the decimal point. There is no cents column on
the form.

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November 24, 2021
Generally, a taxpayer, including a tax-exempt entity, will
recognize a positive section 481(a) adjustment (that is,
CAUTION an increase to income) ratably over four tax years and
will recognize a negative section 481(a) adjustment in full in the
year of change. See Rev. Proc. 2015-13, or its successor.

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Public Inspection Requirements of Section 501(c)
(3) Organizations

Under section 6104(d), a section 501(c)(3) organization that files
Form 990-T must make its entire annual exempt organization
business income tax return (including amended returns)
available for public inspection. See Appendix C. Public
Inspection of Form 990-T Returns Filed by Section 501(c)(3)
Organization, later.

An organization may elect a 1-year adjustment period for
positive section 481(a) adjustment that is less than $50,000. See
the Instructions for Form 3115 for more information and
requirements to make this election.
Include any positive section 481(a) adjustment on
Schedule A (Form 990-T), Part I, line 12 (Other income). If the
section 481(a) adjustment is negative, report it as a deduction on
Schedule A (Form 990-T), Part II, line 14 (Other deductions).
The section 481(a) adjustment should not be reported on Form
990-T as a negative number.
However, as discussed above, if a tax-exempt entity has not
yet adopted an accounting method for an item, a change in how
the entity reports the item for purposes of filing the Form 990-T is
not a change in accounting method. In this case, an adjustment
under section 481(a) is not required or permitted.

Specific Instructions
Period Covered

File the 2021 form for calendar year 2021 or a fiscal year
beginning in 2021 and ending in 2022. For a fiscal year, fill in the
tax year information at the top of the form.
The 2021 Form 990-T may also be used if:

• The organization has a tax year of less than 12 months that

begins and ends in 2022, and
• The 2022 Form 990-T isn't available at the time the
organization is required to file its return. The organization must
show its 2022 tax year on the 2021 Form 990-T and take into
account any tax law changes that are effective for tax years
beginning after 2021.

Accounting Period
The return must be filed using the organization's established
annual accounting period. If the organization has no established
accounting period, file the return on the calendar-year basis.
To change an accounting period, some organizations may
make a notation on a timely filed Form 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, or
990-T. Others may be required to file Form 1128, Application To
Adopt, Change, or Retain a Tax Year. For details on which
procedure applies to your organization, see Rev. Proc. 85-58,
1985-2 C.B. 740, and the Instructions for Form 1128.

Name and Address

The name and address on Form 990-T should be the same as
the name and address shown on other Forms 990.
Include the suite, room, or other unit number after the street
address. If the Post Office doesn’t deliver mail to the street
address and the organization has a P.O. box, show the box
number instead of the street address.

For the short period return, figure the tax by placing the
organization's taxable income on an annual basis. If the
organization changes its accounting period, file Form 990-T for
the short period that begins with the first day after the end of the
old tax year and ends on the day before the first day of the new
tax year. For details, see section 443.

If the organization receives its mail in care of a third party
(such as an accountant or an attorney), enter on the street
address line “C/O” followed by the third party's name and street
address or P.O. box.
Change of name. If the organization has changed its
name, it must check the box next to “Name of
CAUTION organization” and also provide the following when filing
this return, if it is:

Reporting 990-T Information on Other Returns

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Your organization may be required to file an annual information
return on:
• Form 990, Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax;
• Form 990-EZ, Short Form Return of Organization Exempt
From Income Tax;
• Form 990-PF, Return of Private Foundation or Section
4947(a)(1) Nonexempt Charitable Trust Treated as a Private
Foundation; or
• Form 5500, Annual Return/Report of Employee Benefit Plan.

• A corporation, is incorporated with the state or limited liability
company treated as a corporation for tax purposes (that is, not a
disregarded entity)—an amendment to the articles of
incorporation or articles of organization along with proof of filing
with the state.
• A trust—an amendment to the trust agreement with the
trustee(s) signature.
• An association, or an unincorporated association—an
amendment to the articles of association, constitution, by-laws,

If so, include on that information return the unrelated business
gross income and expenses (but not including the specific
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A public college or university subject to tax on its unrelated
business taxable income under section 511(a)(2)(B) should
check the box for “501(c) corporation.”
“Other trust” includes IRAs, SEPs, SIMPLEs, Roth IRAs,
Coverdell IRAs, and Archer MSAs.
Section 529 organizations check the 501(c) corporation or
501(c) trust box depending on whether the organization is a
corporation or a trust. Also, the box for 529(a) in Item B must be
checked.

or other organizing document with signatures of at least two
officers/members.

Items A through L
Item A. If the organization has changed its address since it last
filed a return, check Item A.
If a change in address occurs after the return is filed, use

DRAFT AS OF
November 24, 2021
TIP Form 8822-B, Change of Address or Responsible Party Business, to notify the IRS of the new address.

Compute your tax in Part II on the appropriate line. If you
check (501(c)) corporation), you must compute your tax
CAUTION on Part II, line 1, and leave line 2 blank. If you check
(501(c) trust), (401(a) trust), or (Other trust), you must compute
your tax on Part II, line 2, and leave line 1 blank.

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Item B. Check the box under which the organization receives its
tax exemption.
Qualified pension, profit-sharing, and stock bonus plans
should check the 501 box and enter “a” between the first set of
parentheses. Do not make an entry in the space between the
second parentheses.
For other organizations exempt under section 501, check the
box for 501 and enter the section that describes their tax exempt
status, for example, 501(c)(3).
For tax exempt organizations that don't receive their
exemption under section 501, use the following guide.
IF you are a . . . . . . . . . . . . .

THEN check this box

IRA, SEP, or SIMPLE

408(e)

Roth IRA

408A

Archer MSA

220(e)

Coverdell ESA

530(a)

Qualified State Tuition Program

529(a)

Qualified ABLE Program

529A

Item H. Check if filing Form 990-T only to claim a credit from
Form 8941 or to claim a refund shown on Form 2439.
Item I. Check if you are a 501(c)(3) organization filing a
consolidated return with a 501(c)(2) title holding corporation.
See Consolidated returns, earlier, for additional information.

Item J. Enter the total number of Schedules A attached to Form
990-T. An organization with one or more unrelated trades or
businesses will complete a separate Schedule A for each
unrelated trade or business.
Complete all needed Schedules A before completing

TIP Parts I through V of Form 990-T.

Item K. Check the “ Yes,” box if your organization is a
corporation and either 1 or 2 below applies:
1. The corporation is a subsidiary in an affiliated group
(defined in section 1504) but isn't filing a consolidated return for
the tax year with that group.
2. The corporation is a subsidiary in a parent-subsidiary
controlled group (defined in section 1563).

A public college or university that has not obtained
recognition of exemption under section 501(c)(3) should not
check any box in Item B.

Excluded member. If the corporation is an "excluded
member" of a controlled group (see section 1563(b)(2)), it is still
considered a member of a controlled group for purposes of Item
K.

Item C. Enter the total of the end-of-year assets from the
organization's books of account.
Item D. An employees' trust described in section 401(a) and
exempt under section 501(a) should enter its own trust
identification number in this block.
An IRA trust enters its own EIN in this block. An IRA trust
never enters a social security number or the trustee's EIN.
An EIN may be applied for:
• Online—Click on the Employer ID Numbers (EINs) link at
IRS.gov/EIN. The EIN is issued immediately once the application
information is validated.
• By mailing or faxing Form SS-4, Application for Employer
Identification Number.

Item L. Enter the name and address of the person who has the
organization's books and records and the telephone number at
which he or she can be reached.

Part I. Total Unrelated Business
Taxable Income
Line 1. Total of Unrelated Business Taxable
Income Computed From all Unrelated Trades or
Businesses

Note. Only organizations located in the United States or U.S.
possessions can use the online application. Foreign
organizations must use one of the other methods to apply for an
EIN.

Enter the sum of the positive amounts from all Schedules A
(Form 990-T), Part II, line 18. Do not include any amount from
Schedule A (Form 990-T), Part II, line 18 that is less than zero in
the computation of total unrelated trade or business income
reported on Part I, line 1.

Item E. If the organization is covered by a group exemption,
enter the group exemption number.

Line 2. Reserved

Item F. Check this box if the organization previously filed a
Form 990-T return with the IRS for a tax year and is now filing
another return for the same tax year to amend the previously
filed return. Also, see Amended return, earlier, for information
you must include in an amended return.

Do not enter any amount on this line.

Line 4. Charitable Contributions

Enter contributions or gifts actually paid within the tax year to or
for the use of charitable and governmental organizations
described in section 170(c). Also, enter any unused
contributions carried over from earlier years. The deduction for
contributions will be allowed whether or not directly connected

Item G. Check the box that describes your organization.

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in those years in calculating the QBI. Additionally, W-2 wages
and unadjusted basis immediately after the acquisition (UBIA) of
qualified property from an unrelated trade or business that
operated at a loss for the current tax year are not used in
calculating the limitation on QBI for taxpayers over the threshold.

with the conduct of a trade or business. See Appendix B,
Charitable Contribution Deduction, later.

Line 6. Deduction for Net Operating Loss
Arising in Tax Years Beginning Before 2018

Part II. Tax Computation

Enter the smaller of (a) the amount of net operating losses
arising in tax years beginning before January 1, 2018, or (b) the
amount shown on Part I, line 1.

Line 1. Organizations Taxable as Corporations

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Line 8. Specific Deduction

Multiply Part I, line 11 by 21% (0.21).

A specific deduction of $1,000 is allowed except for computing
the net operating loss and the net operating loss deduction
under section 172.

Line 2. Trusts

Trusts exempt under section 501(a), which otherwise would be
subject to subchapter J (estates, trusts, etc.), are taxed at trust
rates. This rule also applies to employees' trusts that qualify
under section 401(a). Most trusts figure the tax on the unrelated
business taxable income amount on Part I, Line 11 using the Tax
Rate Schedule for Trusts, below. If the tax rate schedule is used,
enter the tax on Part II, line 2 and check the “Tax rate schedule”
box. If the trust is eligible for the rates on net capital gains and
qualified dividends, complete Schedule D (Form 1041) and enter
on Part II, line 2 the tax from Schedule D (Form 1041). Check the
“Schedule D” box on line 2 and attach Schedule D (Form 1041)
to Form 990-T.

Only one specific deduction may be taken, regardless of the
number of unrelated businesses conducted. However, a
diocese, province of a religious order, or convention or
association of churches is allowed one specific deduction for
each parish, individual church, district, or other local unit that
regularly conducts an unrelated trade or business. This applies
only to those parishes, districts, or other local units that aren't
separate legal entities, but are components of a larger entity
(diocese, province, convention, or association). Each specific
deduction will be the smaller of $1,000 or the gross income from
any unrelated trade or business the local unit conducts. If you
claim a total specific deduction larger than $1,000, attach a
statement showing how you figured the amount. The attached
statement should include the name of each local unit, its gross
unrelated business income, and its allowable specific deduction
(which cannot exceed the smaller of $1,000 or the local unit’s
gross unrelated business income).

A trust with more than one unrelated trade or business
that computes its tax on Schedule D (Form 1041) may
CAUTION need to adjust the amount entered on Schedule D (Form
1041), Part V, line 22, to include only the net gain from
Schedule D (Form 1041), line 18a (column 2) or line 19 (column
2) that is included in income on Part I of Form 990-T.

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The diocese, province of a religious order, or convention or
association of churches must file a return reporting the gross
income and deductions of all its units that aren't separate legal
entities. These local units can’t file separate returns because
they aren't separately incorporated. Local units that are
separately incorporated must file their own returns and can’t be
included with any other entity except for a title holding company.
See Consolidated Returns, earlier.

Tax Rate Schedule for Trusts
If the amount on Part II, line 2, is:
Over—
$0
2,650
9,550
13,050

For details on the specific deduction, see section 512(b)(12)
and the related regulations.

$2,650
9,550
13,050
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Tax is:
10%
$265 + 24%
1,921 + 35%
3,146 + 37%

Of the amount
over—
$0
2,650
9,550
13,050

Line 3. Proxy Tax

To pay the section 6033(e)(2) proxy tax on nondeductible
lobbying and political expenditures, enter the proxy tax on Part II,
line 3 and attach a statement showing the computation.

Line 9. Section 199A Deduction

For Trust filers only. If you are a trust filing Form 990-T and
have unrelated business income, you may have Qualified
Business Income (QBI) and may be allowed a QBI deduction
under section 199A.
Refer to the Instructions for Form 8995, Qualified Business
Income Deduction Simplified Computation, or Form 8995-A,
Qualified Business Income Deduction, (as applicable) to
determine whether you meet the requirements for the QBI
deduction and how to complete the applicable form.
For purposes of calculating the QBI deduction, the taxable
income before the QBI deduction is the amount reported on Part
I, line 7 minus the amount reported on Part I, line 8.

Exempt organizations, except section 501(c)(3) and certain
other organizations, must include certain information regarding
lobbying expenditures on Form 990. In addition, organizations
may have to provide notices to members regarding their share of
dues to which the expenditures are allocable. See the
Instructions for Form 990 and Rev. Proc. 98-19, 1998-1 C.B.
547, for exceptions.
If the organization elects not to provide the notices described
earlier, it must pay the proxy tax described in section 6033(e)(2).
If the organization doesn’t include the entire amount of allocable
dues in the notices, it may have to pay the proxy tax. This tax
isn't applicable to section 501(c)(3) organizations. Figure the
proxy tax by multiplying the aggregate amount not included in
the notices described earlier by 21%. No deductions are
allowed.

Note. For tax years beginning after 2017, the organization
determines the unrelated business income separately for each
unrelated trade or business, and the income for an unrelated
trade or business cannot be less than zero. Since a loss from an
unrelated trade or business is not included in the unrelated
business taxable income for the tax year due to application of
section 512(a)(6), when calculating QBI, omit items of income,
gain, deduction, and loss from any unrelated trade or business
that operated at a loss. A loss from an unrelated trade or
business will be carried forward to future years when the trust
has income (or gain that is subject to unrelated business income
tax) from the same unrelated trade or business and will be used
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But not over—

Line 4. Other Tax Amounts

Part II, line 4 is intended to capture any positive tax amount that
does not have a specific line. An MeF (Internet filing)
dependency (attachment) captures the detail. Use line 4 to
report tax amounts not reported on a specific line in Part II
(excluding tax deferred under section 1294, which is included in
Part III, line 4).

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• Use this line to report the base erosion minimum tax under
section 59A. Section 59A applies to base erosion payments paid
or accrued in tax years beginning after 2017. See the
Instructions for Form 8991 to determine if the organization
qualifies as an applicable taxpayer under section 59A(e), in
which case the base erosion minimum tax will need to be
computed and entered on Part II, line 4.
• Use this line to report the tax and interest on a nonqualified
withdrawal from a capital construction fund (section 7518).
• Use this line to report the deferred tax amount (defined in
section 1291(c)(1)) that is the aggregate increase in taxes
(described in section 1291(c)(2)) on an excess distribution from
a passive foreign investment company (PFIC) that is taxable as
unrelated business taxable income. See the Instructions for
Form 8621, Information Return by a Shareholder of a Passive
Foreign Investment Company or Qualified Electing Fund.
• Use this line to report the increase in tax attributable to
partner's audit liability. If your organization received Form 8986
from one or more partnerships that have elected to push out
adjustments to partnership-related items to their partners,
complete and attach Form 8978. See the Instructions for Form
8978. Include any increase in taxes due from Form 8978,
line 14; in Part II, line 4. If Form 8978 shows a decrease in tax,
do not report that here. Instead, a negative adjustment should be
reported in Part III on line 1b.
Unless otherwise indicated, when reporting deferred tax on
line 4, don't include interest on the tax amount. Instead, report
such interest as an “other amount due” in Part III, on line 3. For
example, interest on tax deferred under section 1291(c)(1),
determined under section 1291(c)(3) is reported in Part III, line 3.

Complete the form that applies to the organization and attach
the form to its Form 990-T. Enter the credit on this line.

Line 1b. Other Credits

Use line 1b to enter nonrefundable credits not identified
elsewhere in Part III, line 1. Attach a statement that lists the
applicable form and the amount of the credit. Such credits may
include:

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• Any qualified electric vehicle passive activity credits from prior
years allowed for the current tax year from Form 8834, Qualified
Electric Vehicle Credit, line 7. Attach Form 8834.
• The allowable credits from Form 8912, Credit to Holders of
Tax Credit Bonds, line 12.
• If your organization received Form 8986 from one or more
partnerships that have elected to push out adjustments to
partnership-related items to their partners, complete and attach
Form 8978. See the Instructions For Form 8978. Enter the
amount of any decrease in taxes due from Form 8978, line 14.

Line 1c. General Business Credit

Enter the organization's total general business credit (excluding
the work opportunity credit, employee retention credit, the
empowerment zone employment credit, the Indian employment
credit, and the credit for employer differential wage payments).
Additionally, in some cases, certain general business credits
should not be claimed if the seller of the property discloses to
the organization that the seller intends to claim the credit and
discloses the tentative amount of the credit. These include the
qualified electric vehicle credit, the alternative motor vehicle
credit, the alternative fuel vehicle refueling property credit, and
the qualified plug-in electric drive motor vehicle credit.

How to report. Attach a statement to Part II, line 4 showing (a)
a brief description of the type of tax, and (b) the amount. For
example, if the organization is reporting $100 of tax due from an
increase in tax attributable to a partner's audit liability (Form
8978), the attachment would show “Form 8978” and “$100.”

The organization is required to file Form 3800, General
Business Credit, to claim any business credit. For a list of
credits, see Form 3800. Include the allowable credit from Form
3800, Part II, line 38, on Form 990-T, Part III, line 1c.

Line 5. Alternative Minimum Tax (Trusts Only)

An organization described in section 501(c) which is
exempt from tax under section 501(a) should not use
CAUTION Form 3800 to claim the refundable small employer tax
credit for certain health insurance premiums paid on behalf of its
employees. See the instructions for Part III, line 6f.

Only trusts liable for tax on unrelated business taxable income
may be liable for alternative minimum tax on certain adjustments
and tax preference items.

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Trusts attach Schedule I (Form 1041), Alternative Minimum
Tax—Estates and Trusts, and enter any tax from Schedule I on
this line.

Line 1d. Credit for Prior Year Minimum Tax

Use Form 8801 to figure the minimum tax credit and any
carryforwards of that credit for trusts. For corporations, use Form
8827.

Line 6. Tax on Noncompliant Facility Income

There is a tax on a hospital organization’s non-compliant facility
income. See Regulations section 1.501(r)-2 for more
information. This tax is an income tax and is separate from the
excise tax on a failure to meet the community health needs
assessment requirements of section 501(r)(3) that is reported on
Form 4720.

Line 1e. Total Credits

Add lines 1a through 1d.

Line 3. Other Amounts Due

Recapture of investment credit. If property is disposed of
or ceases to be qualified property before the end of the
recapture period or the useful life applicable to the property,
there may be a recapture of the credit. See Form 4255,
Recapture of Investment Credit.
Recapture of low-income housing credit. If the
organization disposed of property (or there was a reduction in
the qualified basis of the property) for which it took the
low-income housing credit, it may owe a tax. See Form 8611,
Recapture of Low-Income Housing Credit, and section 42(j) for
details.
Interest due under the look-back method. If the
organization used the look-back method for certain long-term
contracts, see Form 8697 for information on figuring the interest
the organization may have to include. The organization may also
have to include interest due under the look-back method for
property depreciated under the income forecast method. See

Line 7. Total

Add Part II, lines 3, 4, 5, and 6 to Part II, line 1 or 2, whichever
applies.

Part III. Tax and Payments
Line 1a. Foreign Tax Credit
• Corporations. See Form 1118, Foreign Tax

Credit—Corporations, for an explanation of when a corporation
can claim this credit for payment of income tax to a foreign
country or U.S. possession.
• Trusts. See Form 1116, Foreign Tax Credit (Individual,
Estate, or Trust), for rules on how the trust computes the foreign
tax credit.

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Line 6d. Foreign Organizations

Form 8866, Interest Computation Under the Look-Back Method
for Property Depreciated Under the Income Forecast Method.
Other. Additional amounts due may be included in the total
entered on Part III, line 3. Check the box for “Other” if the
organization includes any of items discussed. See How to
report, below, for details on reporting these amounts on an
attached statement.
• Interest on deferred tax attributable to installment sales of
certain time-shares and residential lots (section 453(l)(3)) and
certain nondealer installment obligations (section 453A(c)).
• Interest due on deferred gain (section 1260(b)).
• If the organization makes the election to be taxed on its
income from qualifying shipping activities, complete and attach
Form 8902 to Form 990-T. See Income from qualifying shipping
activities, later.
How to report. If the organization checked the “Other” box,
attach a statement showing the computation of each item
included in the total for Part III, line 3. In addition, identify (a) the
applicable Code section or form number, (b) the type of tax or
interest, and (c) the amount of tax or interest. For example, if the
organization is reporting $100 of tax due from the recapture of
the QEV credit, enter “Section 30-QEV recapture tax–$100” on
the attached statement.

Enter the tax withheld on unrelated business taxable income
from U.S. sources that isn't effectively connected with the
conduct of a trade or business within the United States. Attach
Form 1042-S, Foreign Person's U.S. Source Income Subject to
Withholding, or another form which verifies the withheld tax
reported on Part III, line 6d.

Line 6e. Backup Withholding

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Recipients of dividend or interest payments must generally
certify their correct tax identification number to the bank or other
payer on Form W-9. If the payer doesn’t get this information, it
must withhold part of the payments as “backup withholding.” If
your organization was subject to erroneous backup withholding
because the payer didn’t realize you were an exempt
organization and not subject to this withholding, you can claim
credit for the amount withheld by including it on Part III, line 6e.
See Backup withholding under Which Parts To Complete,
earlier.

Line 6f. Credit for Small Employer Health
Insurance Premiums

An organization described in section 501(c) which is exempt
from tax under section 501(a) may be eligible to claim the
refundable small employer tax credit for a percentage of certain
health insurance premiums paid on behalf of its employees.

Line 4. Total Tax

Include any deferred tax on the termination of a section 1294
election applicable to shareholders in a qualified electing fund in
the amount entered on Part III, line 4. See Form 8621, Part VI,
and How to report, later.

A tax-exempt eligible small employer can request the
refundable credit by attaching Form 8941, Credit for Small
Employer Health Insurance Premiums, showing the calculation
for the amount of the refundable credit claimed. A tax-exempt
organization is eligible for the refundable credit if it is an
organization that is described in section 501(c) which is exempt
from tax under section 501(a). The organization must keep
records to substantiate the amount of the credit claimed.

Subtract from the total entered on Part III, line 4 any deferred
tax on the corporation's share of undistributed earnings of a
qualified electing fund (see Form 8621, Part III).
How to report Attach a statement showing the computation
of each item included in, or subtracted from, the total on Part III,
line 4. Specify (a) the applicable Code section, (b) the type of
tax, and (c) the amount of tax.

If a tax-exempt eligible small employer is filing Form

TIP 990-T only to request a credit for small employer health

Line 5. Section 965 Payments

insurance premiums paid, complete the following steps.
1. Fill in the heading (the area above Part I) except items J
and K. Check the box for “Claim credit from Form 8941” in Item
H.
2. Enter -0- on Part I, line 11, and Part III, line 4.
3. Enter the credit from Form 8941, line 20, on Part III,
line 6f.
4. Complete Part III, lines 7, 10, 11, and the signature area.

Corporations. For tax years 2021 and later, a corporation will
not have any section 965(a) inclusions to report. If the
organization elected to pay its section 965 net tax liability in
installments, the organization should attach Form 965-B to Form
990-T. However, the current year installment should be paid with
a separate voucher (which will be mailed to the organization in
advance of the payment due date). Do not include the current
year installment in the Tax and Payments computation in Part III.
Trust. A trust that has "net 965 tax liability" for the current tax
year (as described in the Instructions for Form 965-A) should
enter on line 5, the amount from the current year line on Form
965-A, Part II, column (k). If the trust has no net 965 tax liability
for the current tax year, but has elected to pay its section 965 net
tax liability in installments, the trust should attach Form 965-A to
Form 990-T, but should not include the current year installment
in the Tax and Payments computation in Part III (as described
above for corporations).

Line 6g. Other Credits and Payments

Check the appropriate box(es) and enter:
• From Form 2439, Notice to Shareholder of Undistributed
Long-Term Capital Gains, the credit from a regulated investment
company (RIC) or a real estate investment trust (REIT). Also,
attach Form 2439. If you are filing a composite Form 990-T, see
Composite Form 990-T under Which Parts To Complete, earlier.
• From Form 4136, the credit for federal tax paid on fuels. Also,
attach Form 4136, Credit for Federal Tax Paid on Fuels, if the
organization qualifies to claim this credit.
• The credit for ozone-depleting chemicals. Include any credit
the organization is claiming under section 4682(g) for taxes paid
on chemicals used as propellants in metered-dose inhalers.
• The amount of current year net section 965 tax liability. For a
trust, this amount will be from Form 965-A, Part I, column (d),
line 4.

Line 6b. Estimated Tax Payments

Enter the total estimated tax payments made for the tax year.
If an organization is the beneficiary of a trust, and the trust
makes a section 643(g) election to credit its estimated tax
payments to its beneficiaries, include the organization's share of
the estimated tax payment in the total amount entered here.
Attach a statement showing the amount of the section 643(g)
credit amount.

Instructions for Form 990-T

After entering these amounts in the appropriate spaces, add
them all together and enter the total on Part III, line 6g.

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Form 8849, Claim for Refund of Excise Taxes, may be

Line 2

TIP used to claim a periodic refund of excise taxes instead of

The organization may be required to file Form 3520, Annual
Return To Report Transactions With Foreign Trusts and Receipt
of Certain Foreign Gifts, if:
• It directly or indirectly transferred money or property to a
foreign trust. For this purpose, any U.S. person who created a
foreign trust is considered a transferor; or
• It is treated as the owner of any part of the assets of a foreign
trust under the grantor trust rules.

waiting to claim a credit on Form 4136. See the
Instructions for Form 8849 and Pub. 510, Excise Taxes
(Including Fuel Tax Credits and Refunds).

Line 8. Estimated Tax Penalty

Use Form 2220, Underpayment of Estimated Tax by
Corporations, to see if the organization owes a penalty and its
amount. Generally, the organization isn't required to file this form
because the IRS can figure the amount of any penalty and notify
the organization. However, even if the organization doesn’t owe
the penalty, you must complete and attach Form 2220 if either of
the following applies.
• The annualized income or adjusted seasonal installment
method is used.
• The organization is a “large organization” computing its first
required installment based on the prior year's tax.

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See the Instructions for Form 3520.

An owner of a foreign trust must ensure that the trust
files an annual information return on Form 3520-A,
CAUTION Annual Information Return of Foreign Trust With a U.S.
Owner. For details, see the Instructions for Form 3520-A.

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Line 3

Report any tax-exempt interest received or accrued in the space
provided. Include any exempt-interest dividends received as a
shareholder in a mutual fund or other regulated investment
company.

If you attach Form 2220, check the box on Form 990-T, Part
III, line 8, and enter the amount of any penalty on this line.

Line 9. Tax Due

You must pay the tax in full when the return is filed. You may pay
by EFTPS. For more information about EFTPS, see Electronic
Deposit Requirement, earlier. Also, you may pay by credit or
debit card.
To pay by credit or debit card. For information on paying
your taxes electronically, including by credit or debit card, go to
IRS.gov/E-pay.

Line 4
Use line 4 to show the amount of the NOL carryover to the tax
year from tax years prior to 2018 (“pre-2018 NOL”), even if some
of the loss is used to offset income on this return. The amount to
enter is the total of all pre-2018 NOLs generated in any year
prior to 2018, and not used to offset income (either as a
carryback or carryover) to a tax year prior to 2021. Do not reduce
the amount by any NOL deduction reported on Part I, line 4.

Part IV. Statements Regarding Certain
Activities and Other Information

Line 5

Complete all lines in Part IV
Line 1

Use the table in line 5 to show the amount of each NOL
carryover from tax years after 2017 that is attributable to each
separate trade or business conducted at any time after 2017
(“siloed post-2017 NOL”) to the tax year. Include the NOL for
each separate trade or business conducted after 2017, even if a
Schedule A for any one or more specific trades or businesses is
not included with this return for this tax year. Report the full
amount of the available NOL for each separate trade or
business, even if some of the loss is used to offset income
reported on a Schedule A filed for that separate trade or
business on this return.

Check “Yes,” if either item 1 or 2 below applies.
1. At any time during the year the organization had an
interest in or signature or other authority over a financial account
in a foreign country (such as a bank account, securities account,
or other financial account); and
a. The combined value of the accounts was more than
$10,000 at any time during the year; and
b. The accounts were not with a U.S. military banking facility
operated by a U.S. financial institution.
2. The organization owns more than 50% of the stock in any
corporation that would answer “Yes” to item 1, earlier.
If the “Yes” box is checked, write the name of the foreign
country or countries. If the list of foreign country names will not fit
in the available space, continue the list in Part V, Supplemental
Information.
Get FinCEN Form 114, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial
Accounts (FBAR), to see if the organization is considered to
have an interest in or signature or other authority over a financial
account in a foreign country (such as a bank account, securities
account, or other financial account). If the organization is
required to file this form, file FinCEN Form 114 electronically with
the Department of the Treasury using FinCEN's BSA E-Filing
System. Because FinCEN Form 114 isn't a tax form, don't file it
with Form 990-T.
See www.fincen.gov for more information.

In the first column under line 5, identify the Business Activity
Code to which each NOL relates. In the second column, enter
the total amount of each siloed post-2017 NOL generated in any
prior year after 2017 and not used to offset income (either as a
carryback or carryover) to a tax year prior to 2021. Do not reduce
the amount by any NOL deduction reported on Schedule A, Part
II, line 17. See Separate Trades or Businesses, later, for
information about changing the business activity code
associated with a particular trade or business, and the effect of
such a change on NOLs.

Line 6
Generally, the organization must file Form 3115, Application for
Change in Accounting Method, to change its accounting
method. An exception applies where a section 501(c)
organization changes its accounting method to comply with the
Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting
Standards Codification 958, Not-for-Profit Entities (ASC 958).
See Notice 96-30, 1996-1 C.B. 378.

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Part V. Supplemental Information

The organization isn't authorizing the paid preparer to receive
any refund check, bind the organization to anything (including
any additional tax liability), or otherwise represent the
organization before the IRS. If the organization wants to expand
the paid preparer's authorization, see Pub. 947, Practice Before
the IRS and Power of Attorney.
The authorization can’t be revoked. However, the
authorization will automatically end no later than the due date
(excluding extension) for filing next year's Form 990-T.

Use Part V to provide the IRS with narrative information required
for responses to specific questions on Form 990-T, and to
explain the organization’s operations or responses to various
questions.

Signature

DRAFT AS OF
November 24, 2021
Corporations. The return must be signed and dated by the
president, vice president, treasurer, assistant treasurer, chief
accounting officer, or by any other corporate officer (such as a
tax officer) authorized to sign. Receivers, trustees, or assignees
must also sign and date any return filed on behalf of the
organization.

Enter the paid preparer’s PTIN, not his or her social
security number (SSN), in the “PTIN” box in the paid
CAUTION preparer’s block. Because Form 990-T is publicly
disclosable when filed by a 501(c)(3) organization, any
information entered in this block will be publicly disclosed. For
more information about PTIN's, visit the IRS website at IRS.gov/
Taxpros.

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Trusts. The return must be signed and dated by the individual
fiduciary, or by the authorized officer of the trust receiving or
having custody or control and management of the income of the
trust. If two or more individuals act jointly as fiduciaries, any one
of them may sign.
Special rule for IRA trusts. A trustee of IRA trusts may use
a facsimile signature if all of the following conditions are met.
• Each group of returns sent to the IRS must be accompanied
by a letter signed by the person authorized to sign the returns
declaring, under penalties of perjury, that the facsimile signature
appearing on the returns is the signature adopted by that person
to sign the returns filed and that the signature was affixed to the
returns by that person or at that person's direction.
• The letter must also list each return by the name and EIN of
the IRA trust.
• After the facsimile signature is affixed, no entries on the return
may be altered other than to correct discernible arithmetic errors.
• A manually signed copy (of the letter submitted to the IRS with
the returns and a record of any arithmetic errors corrected) must
be retained on behalf of the IRA trusts listed in the letter and it
must be available for inspection by the IRS.

General Instructions – Schedule A
(Form 990-T)

Purpose of the Schedule

Complete a separate Schedule A to report income and allowable
deduction for each separate unrelated trade or business.

Separate Trades or Businesses
An exempt organization may engage in more than one unrelated
trade or business. Prior to the enactment of section 512(a)(6), an
exempt organization deriving gross income from the regular
conduct of two or more unrelated trades or businesses
calculated UBTI by determining its aggregate gross income from
all such unrelated trades or businesses and reducing that
amount by the aggregate deductions allowed with respect to all
such unrelated trades or businesses. However, section 512(a)
(6) changed this calculation for exempt organizations with more
than one unrelated trade or business so that, in the case of any
exempt organization with more than one unrelated trade or
business:
• UBTI, including for purposes of determining any NOL
deduction, shall be computed separately with respect to each
trade or business and without regard to section 512(b)(12)
(allowing a specific deduction of $1,000),
• The UBTI of such exempt organization shall be the sum of the
UBTI so computed with respect to each trade or business, less a
specific deduction under section 512(b)(12); and
• For purposes of section 512(a)(6)(B), UBTI with respect to
any such trade or business shall not be less than zero.

Paid preparer. If an officer of the organization filled in its return,
the paid preparer's space should remain blank. Anyone who
prepares the return but doesn’t charge the organization should
not sign the return. Certain others who prepare the return should
not sign. For example, a regular, full-time employee of the
organization, such as a clerk, secretary, etc. should not sign.
Generally, anyone who is paid to prepare the organization's
tax return must sign it and fill in the Paid Preparer Use Only area.
The paid preparer must complete the required preparer
information.
• Sign the return in the space provided for the preparer's
signature.
• Give a copy of the return to the organization.

Thus, under section 512(a)(6), an exempt organization is no
longer permitted to aggregate income and deductions from all
unrelated trades or businesses when calculating UBTI.

Note. A paid preparer may sign original returns, amended
returns, or requests for filing extension by rubber stamp,
mechanical device, or computer software program. Also,
facsimile signatures are authorized.

An organization determines whether it regularly carries on
one or more unrelated trades or businesses by applying sections
511 through 514. Identify each separate trade or business using
the first two digits of the North American Industry Classification
System code (NAICS 2-digit code) that most accurately
describes the unrelated trade or business based on the more
specific NAICS code, such as at the 6-digit level. Identify
activities in the nature of investments, which are not described in
NAICS, using the appropriate business activity code described
in Non-NAICS Business Activity Codes, later.

Paid preparer authorization. If the organization wants to allow
the IRS to discuss this tax return with the paid preparer who
signed it, check the “Yes” box in the signature area of the return.
This authorization applies only to the individual whose signature
appears in the Paid Preparer Use Only section of its return. It
doesn’t apply to the firm, if any, shown in that section.
If the “Yes,” box is checked, the organization is authorizing
the IRS to call the paid preparer to:
• Give the IRS any information that is missing from its return,
• Call the IRS for information about the processing of its return
or the status of its refund or payment(s), and
• Respond to certain IRS notices that the organization has
shared with the preparer about a math error, offsets, and return
preparation. The notices won't be sent to the preparer.
Instructions for Form 990-T

An organization will use each NAICS 2-digit code only once.
For example, a hospital organization that operates several
hospital facilities that include pharmacies that sell goods to the
general public, would include all the pharmacies under the
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NAICS 2-digit code for retail trade, regardless of whether the
hospital organization keeps separate books and records for
each pharmacy.

Which Parts to Complete
Complete a separate Schedule A, Parts I and II, for each
unrelated trade or business. Complete only the lines relevant to
the unrelated trade or business being reported on that
Schedule A.

Once a 2-digit NAICS code or business activity code is used
for an unrelated trade or business, you should continue to use
that same code in subsequent tax years. If it is necessary to
change the 2-digit NAICS code or business activity code
previously used for an unrelated trade or business, you must
report the change in a statement attached to the Schedule A on
which the activities are reported. The statement should include
(1) the 2-digit NAICS code or business activity code used in the
previous tax year, (2) the 2-digit NAICS code or business activity
code used this year and, if filing more than one Schedule A, the
sequence numbers from Item D of the applicable Schedule A,
and (3) a narrative explanation describing the reason for the
change.

Is Gross Income More Than $10,000?

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November 24, 2021
If the sum of the amounts in all Schedules A (Form 990-T),
Part I, line 13, column (A), is more than $10,000, you must
complete all Parts of each Schedule A that apply to the unrelated
trade or business reported on that Schedule A.
Is Gross Income $10,000 or Less?

If the sum of the amounts in all Schedules A (Form 990-T)
Part I, line 13, column (A), is $10,000 or less, complete
Schedule A (Form 990-T) and Form 990-T as follows.

See regulations section 1.512(a)-6(h)(4) regarding the
potential effects on net operating loss carryforwards
CAUTION upon a change of the 2-digit NAICS code for an
unrelated trade or business.

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Schedule A (Form 990-T)
a. Complete the heading on each Schedule A.

b. Part I. Complete only the lines that apply.
1. Enter information directly in column (A) on lines 1, 3
through 5, 12, and 13.
2. Entries for lines 2, and 6 through 11, must be made on the
Part referenced in the text for the line in Part I. For example,
enter the amount for Part I, line 2 on Part III, line 8. For Part I,
line 6, columns (A) and (B), enter the amounts on Part IV, line 3
and line 5 respectively.
3. Make entries as necessary to complete the applicable
lines in column (C).

Regulations section 1.512(a)-6(c)(9) describes a
transition rule for certain partnership interests. The
CAUTION transition period ended on first day of the first taxable
year beginning after December 2, 2020.

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Dual-use property
Section 512(a)(1) permits an exempt organization with an
unrelated trade or business to reduce the income from that trade
or business by the deductions allowed by chapter 1 that are
directly connected with the carrying on of such trade or
business. To be “directly connected” with a trade or business, an
item of deduction must have a proximate and primary
relationship to the carrying on of the unrelated trade or business
generating the gross income. See Regulations section
1.512(a)-1(a). Expenses, depreciation, and similar items
attributable solely to the conduct of an unrelated trade or
business are proximately and primarily related to that trade or
business and qualify to reduce income from such trade or
business under section 512(a)(1) to the extent such items meet
the requirements of sections 162 (trade or business expenses),
167 (depreciation), and other relevant provisions. To the extent
that an exempt organization may have items of deduction that
are shared between an exempt activity and an unrelated trade or
business, Regulations section 1.512(a)-1(c) provides special
rules for allocating such expenses. For example, if facilities are
used both to carry on exempt activities and to conduct unrelated
trade or business activities, then expenses, depreciation, and
similar items attributable to such facilities must be allocated
between the two uses on a reasonable basis. See Regulations
section 1.512(a)-1(c). The allocation issues under section 512(a)
(1) are also relevant under section 512(a)(6) because an exempt
organization with more than one unrelated trade or business
must not only allocate indirect expenses among exempt and
taxable activities as described in Regulations section
1.512(a)-1(c) but also among separate unrelated trades or
businesses.

Exceptions and special rules

The allocation of expenses, depreciation, and similar items
using an unadjusted gross-to-gross method is not reasonable if
the cost of providing the good or service is substantially the
same but the price charged differs between related and
unrelated activities.

Member income of mutual or cooperative electric companies. Income of a mutual or cooperative electric company
described in section 501(c)(12) which is treated as member
income under subparagraph (H) of that section is excluded from
unrelated business taxable income.

c. Part II. Complete lines 15-18, and if necessary, the
attachment to line 17 (net operating loss deduction).
Form 990-T
a. Complete all applicable lines in the heading area.
b. Complete all applicable lines as needed to determine the
appropriate tax, applicable credits, and balance due or refund
amount.
c. Complete the signature area.
If an entry for a line on Part I or Part II must be made on a
different Part of Schedule A, complete only the lines in
CAUTION the Part that reference a specific line on Part I or Part II.
Leave all other lines in the applicable Part blank.

!

Filers with gross income of $10,000 or less as described
above, don't have to complete Schedule A, Parts III though X
(except as described above because certain entries must be
made in those sections to populate lines in Part I and II).
However, refer to applicable Parts of Schedule A when
completing Schedule A, Part I, column (A) and in determining
the deductible expenses to include on Schedule A, Part I,
line 13, column (B).

Income from qualifying shipping activities. The
organization's gross income doesn’t include income from
qualifying shipping activities (as defined in section 1356) if the
organization makes an election under section 1354 on a timely
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passive activity income from another PTP. Such PALs and
passive activity credits aren't allowed for the tax year.
Generally, PALs are subject to other limitations (for example,
basis and at-risk limitations) before they are subject to the PAL
limitations. For example, the at-risk rules under section 465
generally prohibit trusts and corporations that are affected
tax-exempt organizations from claiming losses from activities in
excess of the taxpayer’s amount at risk in the activity.
An affected tax-exempt organization may need to attach
Form 6198, At-Risk Limitations, and either Form 8582, Passive
Activity Loss Limitations, or Form 8810, Corporate Passive
Activity Loss and Credit Limitations. For more information on
these rules, see Pub. 925, Passive Activity and At-Risk Rules.

filed return (including extensions) to be taxed on its notional
shipping income (as defined in section 1353) at the highest
corporate rate. If the election is made, the organization generally
may not claim any loss, deduction, or credit with respect to
qualifying shipping activities. An organization making this
election also may elect to defer gain on the disposition of a
qualifying vessel under section 1359. Use Form 8902,
Alternative Tax on Qualifying Shipping Activities, to figure the
tax. Include the alternative tax on Form 990-T, Part III, line 3.

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Passive loss and at-risk limitations. Under section 469,
certain taxpayers, including certain tax-exempt organizations,
may not deduct a passive activity loss (PAL). Such tax-exempt
organizations (“affected tax-exempt organizations”) include a
trust (such as a trust described in section 501(c), a trust
described in section 401(a), or an IRA), and a corporation if at
any time during the last half of its tax year more than 50% in
value of the outstanding stock of the corporation is owned,
directly or indirectly, by or for not more than five organizations
that are private foundations under section 509(a) or are
described in sections 401(a) or 501(c)(17) (for example, a stock
corporation described in section 501(c)(2) with a 401(a) parent
or private foundation parent).
A PAL occurs when total losses (including prior year
unallowed losses) from all the organization’s passive activities
exceed the total income from all its passive activities. Generally,
passive activities include: (1) trade or business activities in
which the organization didn’t materially participate for the tax
year; and (2) rental activities, regardless of your participation. If
the organization has income or loss from a passive activity,
several lines on Form 990-T and Schedule A (Form 990-T) may
be affected by these rules.
PALs can’t be used to offset income from nonpassive
activities. Passive activity income doesn’t include portfolio
income. Portfolio income (see Temporary Regulations section
1.469-2T(c)(3)) is income from a nonpassive activity. Portfolio
income includes all gross income, other than income derived in
the ordinary course of a trade or business, that is attributable to
interest, dividends, annuities, and royalties (by contrast, a bank's
receipt of interest is in the ordinary course of a trade or business,
as is a securities dealer's receipt of dividends). Portfolio income
also includes gain or loss from the disposition of property that
produces portfolio income or is held for investment (see section
163(d)(5)). The rule treating portfolio income as not from a
passive activity doesn’t apply to the extent that income, of a type
generally regarded as portfolio income, is derived in the ordinary
course of a trade or business. For example, the business income
of a bank typically is largely interest. Similarly, a securities
broker/dealer may earn a substantial portion of the income from
the business in the form of dividends and gains on sales of
dividend-bearing instruments. Interest income may also arise in
the ordinary course of a trade or business with respect to
installment sales and interest charges on accounts receivable.
This means that portfolio income may not be reduced by PALs or
passive activity credits. For example, any portfolio income
earned by a trust described in section 501(a) that is unrelated
business taxable income (such as unrelated debt-financed
income) may not be offset by PALs from an unrelated trade or
business.
Section 469(k) provides that the passive activity limitations
must be applied separately to items from each publicly traded
partnership (PTP). A PTP is a partnership whose interests are
traded on an established securities market or are readily
tradable on a secondary market (or its substantial equivalent).
PALs from a PTP generally may be used only to offset income or
gain from passive activities of the same PTP. This means that a
partner in a PTP may not use PALs and passive activity credits
from a PTP to offset income from other sources, including

Instructions for Form 990-T

How to report income received from a payment

TIP card and third party network transactions. An

organization that receives a Form 1099-K reporting a
"gross amount" received from payment card and third party
network transactions in the tax year should report these amounts
in the same manner as if the payments weren’t reported on a
Form 1099-K. There isn't any one specific line on which to report
an amount from Form 1099-K; the correct line should be
determined based on the nature of the payments. Some
payments received may constitute unrelated business income;
see the instructions below to determine the appropriate line. For
instance, if some of the payments are sales income from an
unrelated business, then those payments would be reported on
Part I, line 1a. Retain Forms 1099-K with your other records.

Specific Instructions – Schedule A
(Form 990-T)
Items A through E
Item A. Enter the same name as entered in the heading area of
Form 990-T.
Item B. Enter the same EIN as entered in Item D of Form 990-T.
Item C. On each Schedule A, enter the business activity code
that best describes the organization's unrelated trade or
business reported on that Schedule A. Modernized e-File
requires a 6-digit numerical entry for Item C. Unless you are
using a 6-digit non-NAICS business activity code, you should
enter the 2 digits of the NAICS code in the first two positions and
then enter four zeros to complete the entry. For example, if the
2-digit business activity code 45 (for retail trade) best describes
your unrelated trade or business, enter “450000” in Item C. See
Business Activity Codes, later for more information about
business activity codes.

Part I. Unrelated Trade or Business
Income
Line 1a. Gross Receipts or Sales

Enter the gross receipts from an unrelated trade or business
regularly conducted that involves the sale of goods or
performance of services.
A section 501(c)(7) social club would report its

TIP restaurant and bar receipts from nonmembers on

Schedule A, Part I, line 1, but would report its investment
income on Schedule A, Part I, line 9 and in Schedule A, Part VII.
Advance payments. In general, advance payments are
reported in the year of receipt. To report income from long-term
contracts, see section 460. For special rules for reporting certain
advance payments for goods and long-term contracts, see
Regulations section 1.451-5. For permissible methods for
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Capital gains and losses should be reported by a trust on
Schedule D (Form 1041), Capital Gains and Losses, and by a
corporation on Schedule D (Form 1120), Capital Gains and
Losses (and Form 8949, Sale and Other Dispositions of Capital
Assets). Schedule D of Form 1041 or Form 1120 (and Form
8949 if applicable) must be attached to Form 990-T.

reporting advance payments for services and certain goods by
an accrual method organization, see Rev. Proc. 2004-34,
2004-22 I.R.B. 991, available at IRS.gov/IRB2004-22.
Installment sales. Generally, the installment method cannot be
used for dealer dispositions of property. A “dealer disposition” is
(a) any disposition of personal property by a person who
regularly sells or otherwise disposes of personal property of the
same type on the installment plan or (b) any disposition of real
property held for sale to customers in the ordinary course of the
taxpayer's trade or business.
These restrictions on using the installment method don't
apply to dispositions of property used or produced in a farming
business or sales of time-shares and residential lots for which
the organization elects to pay interest under section 453(l)(3).
For sales of time-shares and residential lots reported under
the installment method, the organization's income tax is
increased by the interest payable under section 453(l)(3).
Enter on Schedule A, Part I, line 1a and line 3, the gross profit
on collections from installment sales for any of the following.
• Dealer dispositions of property before March 1, 1986.
• Dispositions of property used or produced in the trade or
business of farming.
• Certain dispositions of time-shares and residential lots
reported under the installment method.
Attach Form 6252 to show information about each installment
sale.

If you deferred a capital gain into a QOF, you must attach
Schedule D, Form 8949, and Form 8997 to your Form 990-T.
You will need to annually file Form 8997 until you dispose of the
investment. See the Instructions for Form 8997.

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An organization that transfers securities it owns for the
contractual obligation of the borrower to return identical
securities recognizes no gain or loss. To qualify for this
treatment, the organization must lend the securities under an
agreement that requires:
1. The return of identical securities;
2. The payment of amounts equivalent to the interest,
dividends, and other distributions that the owner of the securities
would normally receive; and
3. The risk of loss or opportunity for gain not be lessened.
See section 512(a)(5) for details.
Debt-financed property disposition. The amount of gain or
loss to be reported on the sale, exchange, or other disposition of
debt-financed property is the same percentage as the highest
acquisition indebtedness for the property for the 12-month
period before the date of disposition is to the average adjusted
basis of the property. The percentage may not be more than
100%. See the instructions for Schedule A, Part V, line 5 to
determine adjusted basis and average adjusted basis.
If debt-financed property is depreciable or depletable
property, the provisions of sections 1245, 1250, 1252, 1254, and
1255 must be considered first.
Example. On January 1, 2020, an exempt educational
corporation, using $288,000 of borrowed funds, purchased an
office building for $608,000. The only adjustment to basis was
$29,902 for depreciation (straight-line method under MACRS
over the 39-year recovery period for nonresidential real
property). The corporation (section 501(c)(3) organization) sold
the building on December 31, 2021 for $640,000. At the date of
sale, the adjusted basis of the building was $578,098
($608,000 - $29,902) and the indebtedness remained at
$288,000. The adjusted basis of the property on the first day of
the year of disposition was $593,037. The average adjusted
basis is $585,568 (($593,037 + $578,098) ÷ 2). The debt/basis
percentage is 49% ($288,000 ÷ $585,568).
The taxable gain is $30,332 (49% × ($640,000 - $578,098)).
This is a long-term capital gain. A corporation should enter the
gain on Schedule D (Form 1120) Part II, line 8. A trust should
enter the gain on Schedule D (Form 1041) Part II, line 8, if
applicable. In either scenario (a corporation or a trust), the
educational organization must attach a statement on Form
990-T, in addition to the Schedule D, showing how the gain was
figured along the lines described in this example, if the details
weren’t provided with the Schedule D.

Nonaccrual experience method. Accrual method
organizations aren't required to accrue certain amounts to be
received from the performance of services that, on the basis of
their experience, won't be collected, if:
• The services are in the fields of health, law, engineering,
architecture, accounting, actuarial science, performing arts, or
consulting; or
• The organization's average annual gross receipts for the 3
prior tax years doesn’t exceed $5 million.
This provision doesn’t apply to any amount if interest is
required to be paid on the amount or if there is any penalty for
failure to timely pay the amount. See Regulations section
1.448-2. Organizations that qualify to use the nonaccrual
experience method should attach a statement showing total
gross receipts, amounts not accrued as a result of the
application of section 448(d)(5), and the net amount accrued.
Enter the net amount on Schedule A, Part I, line 1a.
Gain or loss on disposition of certain brownfield property.
Gain or loss from the qualifying sale, exchange, or other
disposition of a qualifying brownfield property (as defined in
section 512(b)(19)(C)), which was acquired by the organization
after 2004, is excluded from unrelated business taxable income
and is excepted from the debt-financed rules for such property.
See section 512(b)(19) and 514(b)(1)(E).

Line 4a. Capital Gain Net Income

Generally, organizations required to file Form 990-T (except
organizations described in sections 501(c)(7), (9), and (17))
aren't taxed on the net gains from the sale, exchange, or other
disposition of property. However, net capital gains on
debt-financed property, capital gains on cutting timber, and
ordinary gains on sections 1245, 1250, 1252, 1254, and 1255
property are taxed. See Form 4797, Sales of Business Property,
and its instructions for additional information.

Disposition of property received from taxable subsidiary
and used in unrelated business. A taxable 80%-owned
subsidiary corporation of one or more tax-exempt entities is
generally subject to tax on a distribution in liquidation of its
assets to its exempt parent (or parents). See section 337. The
assets are treated as if sold at FMV.
“Tax-exempt entities” for this purpose include organizations
described in sections 501(a), 529, 529A, and 115; charitable
remainder trusts; U.S. and foreign governments; Indian tribal
governments; international organizations; and similar
non-taxable organizations.

Also, any capital gain or loss passed through from an S
corporation or any gain or loss on the disposition of S
corporation stock by a qualified tax exempt organization (see S
Corporations, later) is taxed as a capital gain or loss, and
reported on Part I, line 4.
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from the unrelated trade or business. The organization is
required to notify the partnership of its tax-exempt status.

A taxable corporation that transfers substantially all of its
assets to a tax-exempt entity in a transaction that otherwise
qualifies for nonrecognition treatment must recognize gain on
the transaction as if it sold the assets at FMV. However, such a
transfer isn't taxable if it qualifies as a like-kind exchange under
section 1031 or an involuntary conversion under section 1033. In
such a case the built-in appreciation is preserved in the
replacement property received in the transaction. A “taxable
corporation” is any corporation that isn't a tax-exempt entity as
defined above, including an S corporation.
A corporation that changes status from taxable to tax-exempt
is treated generally as if it transferred all of its assets to a
tax-exempt entity immediately before the change in status (thus
subjecting it to the tax on a deemed sale for fair FMV). This rule
doesn’t apply where the taxable corporation becomes exempt
within 3 years of formation, or had previously been exempt and
within several years (generally a period of 3 years) regains
exemption, unless the principal purpose of the transactions is to
avoid the tax on the change in status.
In the transactions described above, the taxable event is
deferred for property that the tax-exempt entity immediately uses
in an unrelated business. If the parent later disposes of the
property, then any gain (not in excess of the amount not
recognized) is included in the parent’s unrelated business
taxable income. If there is partial use of the assets in unrelated
business, then there is partial recognition of gain or loss with
respect to the assets not so used. Property is treated as
disposed if the tax-exempt entity no longer uses it in an
unrelated business.
Losses on the transfer of assets to a tax-exempt entity are
disallowed if part of a plan having a principal purpose of
recognizing losses.

Figure the gross income and deductions of the partnership in
the same way you figure unrelated trade or business income the
organization earns directly.
Attach a statement to this return showing the organization's
share of the partnership's gross income from the unrelated trade
or business, and its share of the partnership deductions directly
connected with the unrelated gross income.

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S Corporations

Qualified tax-exempt organizations can be shareholders in an S
corporation without the S corporation losing its status as an S
corporation. Qualified tax-exempt organizations that hold stock
in an S corporation treat their stock interest as an interest in an
unrelated trade or business. All items of income, loss, or
deduction that the organization receives as a shareholder of the
S corporation are taken into account in Schedule A, Part I, line 5
in figuring unrelated business taxable income and not reported
on another line of Schedule A (Form 990-T) that otherwise would
apply, except capital gains and losses, which are reported on
Part I, line 4. Report on Part I, line 4 any gain or loss on the
disposition of S corporation stock.

Qualified tax-exempts. A qualified tax-exempt is an
organization that is described in section 401(a) (qualified stock
bonus, pension, and profit-sharing plans) or 501(c)(3) and
exempt from tax under section 501(a).
Exception. Employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) don't
follow these S corporation rules if the S corporation stock is an
employer security as defined in section 409(l).
Attach a statement to this return showing the qualified
tax-exempt's share of all items of income, loss, or deduction.
Combine the income, loss, and deductions (except for the
capital gains and losses) on the statement. If you hold stock in
more than one S corporation, total the combined amounts. Show
capital gains and losses separately and include them on
Schedule A, Part I, line 4a.

Line 4b. Net Gain or (Loss)

Show gains and losses on other than capital assets on Form
4797. Enter on this line the net gain or (loss) from Form 4797,
Part II, line 17.
An exempt organization using Form 4797 to report ordinary
gain on sections 1245, 1250, 1252, 1254, and 1255 property will
include only depreciation, amortization, or depletion allowed or
allowable in figuring unrelated business taxable income or
taxable income of the organization (or a predecessor
organization) for a period when it wasn’t exempt.

Line 6. Rent Income

Enter the amount computed at Part IV, line 3 on Part I, line 6,
column (A). Enter the amount computed at Part IV, line 5 on Part
I, line 6, column (B).

Line 4c. Capital Loss Deduction for Trusts

Line 7. Unrelated Debt-Financed Income

If a trust has a net capital loss, it is subject to the limitations of
Schedule D (Form 1041). Enter on this line the loss figured on
Schedule D (Form 1041).

Enter the amount computed at Part V, line 8 on Part I, line 7,
column (A). Enter the amount computed at Part V, line 10 on
Part I, line 7, column (B).

Line 5. Income or (Loss) From a Partnership or
an S Corporation

Line 8. Interest, Annuities, Royalties, and Rents
From a Controlled Organization

See Regulations section 1.512(a)-6 for rules permitting the
aggregation of income (and directly connected deductions) of
certain partnership interests.

Enter the sum of columns 5 and 10 from Part VI on Part I, line 8,
column (A). Enter the sum of columns 6 and 11 from Part VI on
Part I, line 8, column (B).

Also, for trusts and certain corporations, there are limitations
on income and losses (including from a partnership or an S
corporation) under section 469 (the passive activity loss and
credit limitation rules) and section 465 (at-risk limitations). For
more information on these rules, see the discussion of the
application of the passive loss and at-risk limitations to affected
tax-exempt organizations in the introductory instructions to Part
I. Unrelated Trade or Business Income, earlier.

Line 9. Investment Income of a Section 501(c)
(7), (9), or (17) Organization

Enter the sum of amounts in Part VII, column 2 on Part I, line 9,
column (A). Enter the sum of amounts in Part VII, column 5 on
Part I, line 9, column (B).

Line 10. Exploited Exempt Activity Income,
Other Than Advertising Income

Partnerships

If the organization is a partner in a partnership conducting an
unrelated trade or business, enter the organization's share
(whether or not distributed) of the partnership's income or loss
Instructions for Form 990-T

Enter the amount computed at Part VIII, line 2 on Part I, line 10,
column (A). Enter the amount computed at Part VIII, line 3 on
Part I, line 10, column (B).

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Line 11. Advertising Income

Include on Schedule A, Part I, line 12 the portion of an excess
distribution (or gain treated as an excess distribution) section
1293 inclusion or section 1296 inclusion that is taxable as
unrelated business taxable income. See Form 8621, Return by a
Shareholder of a Passive Foreign Investment Company or
Qualified Electing Fund.
See the instructions for Form 990-T, Part II, line 4, for
reporting the deferred tax amount that may be owed by the
organization with respect to an excess distribution (or gain
treated as an excess distribution).

Enter the amount computed at Part IX, line 2 on Part I, line 11,
column (A). Enter the amount computed at Part IX, line 3 on Part
I, line 11, column (B).

Line 12. Other Income

Enter on Part I, line 12 any item of unrelated business income
from a particular trade or business that isn't reportable
elsewhere on the return. Attach a statement describing the
sources of the other income and their amounts. Such amounts
may include:

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Line 13. Total Unrelated Trade or Business
Income

• Recoveries of bad debts deducted in earlier years under the

specific charge-off method;
• The amount from Form 6478, Alcohol and Cellulosic Biofuel
Fuels Credit (if applicable);
• The amount from Form 8864, Biodiesel and Renewable
Diesel Fuels Credit (if applicable); and
• Proceeds received from employer-owned life insurance
contracts issued after August 17, 2006 (complete and attach
Form 8925).

Use the amount from Schedule A, Part I, line 13, column (C) in
the computation of unrelated business taxable income in Part II.

Part II. Deductions Not Taken
Elsewhere

If the aggregate sum of the amounts on all Schedules A (Form
990-T), Part I, line 13, column (A) is $10,000 or less, you don't
have to complete Schedule A, Part II, lines 1 through 14.
However, you must complete the remainder of Schedule A, Part
II and include the larger of each total from Schedule A, Part II,
line 18 or zero, in the computation of the amount reported on
Part I, line 1 of Form 990-T.

Organizations described in section 501(c)(19). Enter the
net income from an insurance business that was not properly set
aside. These organizations may set aside income from
payments received for life, sickness, accident, or health
insurance for members of the organization or their dependents.
1. To provide for the payment of insurance benefits.
2. For a purpose specified in section 170(c)(4) (religious,
charitable, scientific, literary, educational, etc.).
3. For administrative costs directly connected with benefits
described in 1 and 2 above.

Note. Only expenses directly connected with the unrelated
trade or business income reported on the Schedule A for that
particular unrelated trade or business may be deducted on that
Schedule A (see Directly connected expenses, in Appendix A).
Don't separately include in Schedule A, Part II any expenses that
are reported in Schedule A, Parts III through IX, other than
excess exempt expenses entered on Schedule A, Part II, line 12
and excess readership costs entered on Schedule A, Part II,
line 13. For example, officers' compensation allocable to
advertising income is reported on Schedule A, Part IX only, and
shouldn’t be included on Schedule A, Part X or Schedule A, Part
II, line 1.

Amounts set aside and used for purposes other than those in
1, 2, or 3 above must be included in unrelated business taxable
income for the tax year if they were previously excluded from
taxable income.
Any amount spent for a purpose described in section 170(c)
(4) is first considered paid from funds earned by the organization
from insurance activities if the income isn't used for the
insurance activities.
Expenditures for lobbying aren't considered section 170(c)(4)
expenses.

Limitations on Deductions

The following items discuss certain areas in which the deduction
may be limited.

Income from property financed with qualified 501(c)(3)
bonds. If any part of the property is used in a trade or business
of any person other than a section 501(c)(3) organization or a
governmental unit, and such use isn't consistent with the
requirement for qualified 501(c)(3) bonds under section 145, the
section 501(c)(3) organization is considered to have received
unrelated business income in the amount of the greater of the
actual rental income or the fair rental value of the property for the
period it is used. No deduction is allowed for interest on the
private activity bond. Report the greater of the actual rent or the
fair rental value on Schedule A, Part I, line 12. Report allowable
deductions in Schedule A, Part II. See sections 150(b)(3) and
(c).

Activities Lacking a Profit Motive
In some instances it is necessary to report income whether or
not it comes from a trade or business (including interest,
annuities, royalties, and rents from controlled organizations, and
income of a section 501(c)(7), (9), or (17) organization other
than exempt function income). If income is attributable to an
activity lacking a profit motive, then a net loss from the activity
can’t be claimed on Form 990-T. Therefore, in Part I, column (B)
and Part II, the total of deductions for expenses directly
connected with income from an activity lacking a profit motive is
limited to the amount of that income. Generally, an activity
lacking a profit motive is one that isn't conducted for the purpose
of producing a profit or one that has consistently produced
losses when both direct and indirect expenses are taken into
account.

Passive foreign investment company (PFIC) shareholders.
If the organization is a direct or indirect shareholder of a PFIC
within the meaning of section 1297, it may have income tax
consequences under section 1291 upon the disposition of the
PFIC stock or on the receipt of an excess distribution from the
PFIC, described in section 1291(a). The organization may have
current income under section 1293 if the PFIC is a qualified
electing fund (QEF) with respect to the organization. The
organization may also have current income under section 1296 if
it makes a section 1296 mark-to-market election with respect to
the PFIC stock.

Deductions Related to Property Leased to
Tax-Exempt Entities
For property leased to a governmental or other tax-exempt
entity, or in the case of property acquired after March 12, 2004,
that is treated as tax-exempt use property other than by reason
of a lease, the organization may not claim deductions related to
the property when they exceed the organization's income from
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the lease payments. Amounts disallowed may be carried over to
the next year and treated as a deduction concerning the
property. See section 470.

Most property produced under long-term contract;
Certain property produced in a farming business;
Research and experimental costs under section 174;
Geological and geophysical costs amortized under section
167(h);
• Intangible drilling costs for oil, gas, and geothermal property;
• Mining exploration and development costs; and
• Inventory of an organization that accounts for inventories in
the same manner as materials and supplies that aren't
incidental. See Schedule A, Part III, Cost of Goods Sold, later.
See Regulations sections 1.263A-1 through 1.263A-3.

Transactions Between Related Taxpayers
Generally, an accrual basis taxpayer may deduct business
expenses and interest owed to a related party only in the year
the payment is included in the income of the related party. See
sections 163(e)(3) and 267 for limitations on deductions for
unpaid interest and expenses.

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Preference Items

Travel, Meals, and Entertainment

Corporations may be required to adjust deductions for depletion
of iron ore and coal, intangible drilling and exploration and
development costs, and the amortizable basis of pollution
control facilities. See section 291 to determine the amount of the
adjustment.

Subject to limitations and restrictions discussed below, an
organization can deduct ordinary and necessary travel, meals,
and non-entertainment expenses paid or incurred in its trade or
business. Generally, entertainment expenses, membership
dues, and facilities used in connection with these activities
cannot be deducted. In addition, no deduction is generally
allowed for qualified transportation fringe benefits. Special rules
apply to deductions for gifts, luxury water travel, and convention
expenses. See section 274 and Pub. 463, Travel, Gift, and Car
Expenses.

Section 263A Uniform Capitalization Rules

These rules require organizations to capitalize or include as
inventory cost certain costs incurred in connection with:
• The production of real property and tangible personal property
held in inventory or held for sale in the ordinary course of
business.
• Real property or personal property held in inventory (tangible
and intangible) acquired for resale.
• The production of real property and tangible personal property
produced by the organization for use in its trade or business or in
an activity engaged in for profit.

Qualified transportation fringes (QTFs). Generally, no
deduction is allowed under section 274(a)(4) for QTF's provided
by employers to their employees. QTFs are defined in section
132(f)(1) and include:
• Transportation in a commuter highway vehicle between the
employee's residence and place of employment,
• Any transit pass, and
• Qualified parking.
See section 274, Pub 15-B, and Pub. 535 for details.

Tangible personal property produced by an organization
includes a film, sound recording, videotape, book, or similar
property.

Travel. The organization can’t deduct travel expenses of any
individual accompanying an organization's officer or employee,
including a spouse or dependent of the officer or employee,
unless:
• That individual is an employee of the organization, and
• His or her travel is for a bona fide business purpose and
would otherwise be deductible by that individual.

Indirect expenses. Organizations subject to the section 263A
uniform capitalization rules are required to capitalize direct costs
and an allocable part of most indirect costs (including taxes) that
benefit the assets produced or acquired for resale or are
incurred by reason of the performance of production or resale
activities.
For inventory, some of the indirect expenses that must be
capitalized are:
• Administration expenses;
• Taxes;
• Depreciation;
• Insurance;
• Compensation paid to officers attributable to services;
• Rework labor; and
• Contributions to pension, stock bonus, and certain
profit-sharing, annuity, or deferred compensation plans.
Regulations section 1.263A-1(e)(3) specifies other indirect
costs that relate to production or resale activities that must be
capitalized and those that may be currently deductible.

Meals. Generally, the organization can deduct only 50% of the
amount otherwise allowable for non-entertainment related meal
expenses paid or incurred in an unrelated trade or business. The
Taxpayer Certainty and Disaster Relief Act of 2020 amended
section 274(n)(2) to provide an exception from the general rule.
For business meal expenses paid or incurred after December
31, 2020 and before January 1, 2023, the organization is
allowed a deduction of 100% of business meal expenses for
food and beverages provided by a restaurant. Meals not
separately stated from entertainment are generally not
deductible. In addition (subject to exceptions under section
274(k)(2)):
• Meals mustn’t be lavish or extravagant; and
• An employee of the organization must be present at the meal.

Interest expense. Interest expense paid or incurred during the
production period of designated property must be capitalized
and is governed by special rules. See Regulations section
1.263A-8 through 1.263A-15.

Membership dues. The organization can deduct amounts paid
or incurred for membership dues in civic or public service
organizations, professional organizations (such as bar and
medical associations), business leagues, trade associations,
chambers of commerce, boards of trade, and real estate boards.
However, no deduction is allowed if a principal purpose of the
organization is to entertain or provide entertainment facilities for
members or their guests. In addition, organizations cannot
deduct membership dues in any club organized for business,
pleasure, recreation, or other social purpose. This includes
country clubs, golf and athletic clubs, airline and hotel clubs, and
clubs operated to provide meals under conditions favorable to
business discussion.

When are section 263A capitalized costs deductible? The
costs required to be capitalized under section 263A aren't
deductible until the property (to which the costs relate) is sold,
used, or otherwise disposed of by the organization.
Exceptions. Section 263A doesn’t apply to:
• Personal property acquired for resale if the organization's
average annual gross receipts for the 3 prior tax years were $10
million or less;
• Timber;
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Entertainment facilities. The organization can’t deduct an
expense paid or incurred for use of a facility (such as a yacht or
hunting lodge) for an activity usually considered entertainment,
amusement, or recreation.

Line 3. Repairs and Maintenance

Amounts treated as compensation. The organization
generally may be able to deduct otherwise nondeductible travel,
meals, and entertainment expenses if the amounts are treated
as compensation and reported on Form W-2 for an employee or
Form 1099-NEC for an independent contractor and if the total
amount of such compensation isn't unreasonable.

Line 4. Bad Debts

Enter the cost of incidental repairs and maintenance not claimed
elsewhere on the return, such as labor and supplies, that don't
add to the value or appreciably prolong the life of the property.

Enter the total receivables from an unrelated trade or business
that were previously included in taxable income and that
became worthless in whole or in part during the tax year.

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November 24, 2021
Line 5. Interest

Reducing Certain Expenses For Which Credits
Are Allowable

Attach a separate statement listing the interest being claimed on
this line.

If the organization claims certain credits, it may need to reduce
the otherwise allowable deductions for expenses used to figure
the credit. This applies to credits such as the following.
• Disabled access credit.
• Employer credit for social security and Medicare taxes paid
on certain employee tips.
• Credit for employer-provided childcare facilities and services.
• Orphan drug credit.
• Credit for small employer pension plan start-up costs.
• Mine rescue team training credit.
• Employer credit for paid family and medical leave.

Interest allocation. If the proceeds of a loan were used for
more than one purpose (for example, to purchase a portfolio
investment and to acquire an interest in a passive activity), an
interest allocation must be made. See Temp. Reg. section
1.163-8T for the interest allocation rules.

Tax-exempt interest. Don't include interest on indebtedness
incurred or continued to purchase or carry obligations on which
the interest income is totally exempt from income tax. For
exceptions, see section 265(b).

Prepaid interest. Generally, a cash basis taxpayer cannot
deduct prepaid interest allocable to years following the current
tax year. For example, during the tax year a cash basis taxpayer
prepaid interest on a loan. The taxpayer can deduct only that
part of the prepaid interest that was for the use of the loaned
funds during the tax year, not for the use of the loaned funds
during the subsequent years.

If the organization has any of these credits, figure each
current year credit before figuring the deduction for expenses on
which the credit is based.

Business Start-up and Organizational Costs

For business start-up and organizational costs paid or incurred
after September 8, 2008, an organization can deduct up to
$5,000 of such costs in the year it begins business (unless the
organization elects to capitalize the full amount of such costs).
The $5,000 deduction is reduced (but not below zero) by the
amount the total costs exceed $50,000. If the total costs are
$55,000 or more, the deduction is reduced to zero. Any costs not
deducted must be amortized as explained below.

Straddle interest. Generally, the interest and carrying charges
on straddles cannot be deducted and must be capitalized. See
section 263(g).
Original issue discount. See section 163(e)(5) for special
rules for the disqualified portion of original issue discount on a
high yield discount obligation.
Interest on certain underpayments of tax. Don't deduct
interest paid or incurred on any portion of an underpayment of
tax that is attributable to an understatement arising from an
undisclosed listed transaction or an undisclosed reportable
avoidance transaction (other than a listed transaction) entered
into in tax years beginning after October 22, 2004.

Note. For start-up and organizational costs paid or incurred
after September 8, 2008, the organization isn't required to attach
a statement or specifically identify the amount deducted for the
election under sections 195(b) and 248(a) to be effective. It is a
deemed election. Whether an organization deducts a portion of
its start-up and organizational costs under Regulations sections
1.195-1 and 1.248-1 or elects to amortize the full amount of such
costs, its election is irrevocable. For start-up and organizational
costs paid or incurred after October 22, 2004, and before
September 9, 2008, an organization generally must attach the
statement required by Regulation sections 1.195-1(b) and
1.248-1(c) to make the election to deduct a portion of such costs
(as explained above). This election is irrevocable. However, an
organization can apply the provisions of these regulations to
costs paid or incurred after October 22, 2004.

Interest allocable to the production of designated property.
Don't deduct interest on debt allocable to the production of
designated property. Interest that is allocable to such property
produced by an organization for its own use or for sale must be
capitalized. An organization must also capitalize any interest on
debt allocable to an asset used to produce the earlier property.
See section 263A(f) and Regulations sections 1.263A-8 through
1.263A-15.
Interest on below-market loans. See section 7872 for special
rules regarding the deductibility of foregone interest on certain
below-market-rate loans.

Amortization. Any costs not deducted under the above rules
must be amortized ratably over the 180-month period, beginning
with the month the organization begins business. See the
Instructions for Form 4562, Depreciation and Amortization, for
details. If the association elected to amortize business start-up
and organizational costs paid or incurred before October 23,
2004, over a period of 60 months or more, it must continue to
amortize those costs over the elected amortization period.
Report the deductible amount of these costs and any
amortization on Schedule A, Part II, line 14. For amortization that
began during the tax year, complete and attach Form 4562.

Limitation on deduction of business interest. Business
interest expense is limited to the sum of business interest
income, 30% of the adjusted taxable income and floor plan
financing interest. Business interest expense includes any
interest paid or accrued on indebtedness properly allocable to
an unrelated trade or business. A taxpayer, other than a tax
shelter, that meets the gross receipts test is not required to limit
business interest expense under section 163(j). A taxpayer
meets the gross receipts test if the taxpayer has average annual
gross receipts that are taken into account in determining its
unrelated business taxable income of $26 million or less for the
three prior tax years. Gross receipts include the aggregate gross
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only items directly connected with the unrelated trade or
business for which income is reported on that Schedule A.

receipts from all persons treated as a single employer such as a
controlled group of corporations, commonly controlled
partnerships or proprietorships, and affiliated service groups. If
the taxpayer fails to meet the gross receipts test, Form 8990 is
generally required.

Extraterritorial income exclusion. Complete Form 8873 and
include the deduction from line 53 in other deductions reported
on Part II, line 14.
Don't deduct fines or penalties paid to a government for
violating any law. The exclusion was repealed generally for
transactions after 2004, with some exceptions. See Form 8873
and its instructions.

Line 6. Taxes and Licenses

Enter taxes and license fees paid or accrued during the year, but
don't include the following taxes.
• Federal income taxes.
• Foreign or U.S. possession income taxes if a foreign tax credit
is claimed.
• Taxes not imposed on your organization.
• Taxes, including state or local sales taxes, paid or incurred in
connection with an acquisition or disposition of property. These
taxes must be treated as part of the cost of the acquired property
or, in the case of a disposition, as a reduction in the amount
realized on the disposition.
• Taxes assessed against local benefits that increase the value
of the property assessed (such as for paving, etc.).
• Taxes deducted elsewhere on the return, such as those
reflected in cost of goods sold.

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Line 17. Net Operating Loss (NOL) Deduction
Arising in Tax Years Beginning On or After
January 1, 2018

The NOL deduction is the net operating loss carryover and
carrybacks that can be deducted in the tax year with regard to
each separate trade or business. To be deductible, an NOL
must have been incurred in an unrelated trade or business
activity. See section 172(a).

Tax Cuts & Jobs Act amendments to section 172. Section
13302 of the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act amended section 172 for tax
years ending after 2017 to eliminate NOL carrybacks except for
certain farming losses and NOLs of insurance companies other
than life insurance companies. See section 172(b) as amended
by the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act. Also see Publication 225, Farmer's
Tax Guide, Publication 536, Net Operating Losses for
Individuals, Estates, and Trusts, and Publication 542,
Corporations, for additional information. The Tax Cuts & Jobs
Act also amended section 172(a)(2) to limit the allowable NOL
deduction to 80% of taxable income (calculated as described in
section 172(a)(2)).

See section 164(d) for apportionment of taxes on real
property between the buyer and seller.

Line 7. Depreciation

Besides depreciation, include on line 7 the part of the cost,
under section 179, that the organization elected to expense for
certain tangible property placed in service during the tax year or
carried over from the prior tax year. See Form 4562 and its
instructions.

Instructions for Line 17. Enter on Schedule A, Part II, line 17,
the NOL carryover from other tax years attributable to that trade
or business, but don't enter more than the amount shown on
Schedule A, Part II, line 16. An organization that claims the
deduction with respect to any NOL carried through tax years for
which the organization was not required to file Form 990-T must
show the amount of the deduction and how it was computed, but
the organization need not file a Form 990-T in order to preserve
an NOL carryover. The amount of an NOL carryback or
carryover is determined under section 172. See Regulations
section 1.512(b)-1(e). Attach a statement showing the
computation of the NOL deduction.

Line 9. Depletion

See sections 613 and 613A for percentage depletion rates for
natural deposits. Attach Form T, Forest Activities Schedules, if a
deduction is taken for depletion of timber.

Line 10. Contributions to Deferred
Compensation Plans

Employers who maintain pension, profit-sharing, or other funded
deferred compensation plans are generally required to file Form
5500. This requirement applies whether or not the plan is
qualified under the Code and whether or not a deduction is
claimed for the current tax year. Section 6652(e) imposes a
penalty for late filing of these forms. In addition, there is a
penalty for overstating the pension plan deduction. See section
6662(f).

Line 18. Unrelated Business Taxable Income

Use the greater of the amount computed on line 18 or zero in the
computation of unrelated business taxable income on Part I,
line 1 of Form 990-T. A net loss calculated on any Schedule A,
Part II, line 18 cannot be used to offset gain on any other
Schedule A. Accordingly, a net loss on a Schedule A should be
treated as a zero to calculate the amount reported on Part I,
line 1 of Form 990-T.

Line 11. Employee Benefit Programs

Enter the amount of contributions to employee benefit programs
(such as insurance, health, and welfare programs) that aren't an
incidental part of a deferred compensation plan included on
Schedule A, Part II, line 10.

Part III. Cost of Goods Sold

Generally, inventories are required at the beginning and end of
each tax year if the production, purchase, or sale of
merchandise is an income-producing factor. See Regulations
section 1.471-1.

Line 12. Excess Exempt Expenses

Enter the amount computed at Part VIII, line 7 (if applicable) on
Part II, line 12.

Line 13. Excess Readership Costs

However, if the organization is a qualifying taxpayer or a
qualifying small business taxpayer, it may adopt or change its
accounting method to account for inventoriable items in the
same manner as materials and supplies that aren't incidental
(unless its business is a tax shelter (as defined in section 448(d)
(3))).

Enter the amount computed at Part IX, line 8a (if applicable) on
Part II, line 13.

Line 14. Other Deductions

Enter on this line the deduction taken for amortization (see Form
4562) as well as other authorized deductions for which no space
is provided on the return. Attach a statement listing the
deductions claimed on this line. On each Schedule A, deduct
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A qualifying taxpayer is a taxpayer that, for each prior tax year
ending after December 16, 1998, has average annual gross
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receipts of $1 million or less for the 3-tax-year period ending with
that prior tax year.

If the organization is changing its method of accounting to no
longer account for inventories, it must refigure last year's closing
inventory using the new method of accounting and enter the
result on line 1. If there is a difference between last year's
closing inventory and the refigured amount, attach an
explanation and take it into account when figuring the
organization's section 481(a) adjustment (explained earlier).

A qualifying small business taxpayer is a taxpayer (a) that has
average annual gross receipts of $26 million or less for the
3-tax-year period ending with that prior tax year, and (b) whose
principal business activity isn't an ineligible activity
Under this accounting method, inventory cost for raw
materials purchased for use in producing finished goods and
merchandise purchased for resale are deductible in the year the
finished goods or merchandise are sold (but not before the year
the organization paid for the raw materials or merchandise, if it is
also using the cash method). For additional guidance on this
method of accounting for inventoriable items, see Pub. 538 and
the Instructions for Form 3115.

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Line 4

An entry is required on this line only for organizations that have
elected a simplified method of accounting.

For organizations that have elected the simplified production
method, additional section 263A costs are generally those costs,
other than interest, that are now required to be capitalized under
section 263A but that weren’t capitalized under the
organization's method of accounting immediately prior to the
effective date of section 263A. For details, see Regulations
section 1.263A-2(b).

Enter amounts paid for all raw materials and merchandise
during the tax year on line 2. The amount the organization can
deduct for the tax year is figured on Schedule A, Part III, line 8.

All filers not using the cash method of accounting should see
Section 263A Uniform Capitalization Rules, earlier in the
instructions for Limitations on Deductions before completing
Schedule A. The instructions for lines 1, 4, 5, and 7 later apply to
Schedule A, Part III.

For organizations that have elected the simplified resale
method, additional section 263A costs are generally those costs
incurred with respect to the following categories:
• Off-site storage or warehousing;
• Purchasing;
• Handling, such as processing, assembling, repackaging, and
transporting; and
• General and administrative costs (mixed service costs).

Inventory valuation methods. Inventories can be valued at:
1. Cost as described in Regulations section 1.471-3,
2. Lower of cost or market as described in Regulations
section 1.471-4, or
3. Any other method approved by the IRS that conforms to
the requirements of the applicable regulations cited below.

For details, see Regulations section 1.263A-3(d).
Enter on Schedule A, Part III, line 4 the balance of section
263A costs paid or incurred during the tax year not included on
Schedule A, Part III, lines 2 and 3.

However, if the organization is using the cash method of
accounting, it is required to use cost.
A small producer is one whose average annual gross receipts
are $1 million or less. Small producers that account for
inventories in the same manner as materials and supplies that
aren't incidental may currently deduct expenditures for direct
labor and all indirect costs that would otherwise be included in
inventory costs.
The average cost (rolling average) method of valuing
inventories generally doesn’t conform to the requirement of the
regulations. See Rev. Rul. 71-234, 1971-1 C.B. 148.
Organizations that use erroneous valuation methods must
change to a method permitted for federal income tax purposes.
File Form 3115 to make this change.
Inventory may be valued below cost when the merchandise is
unsalable at normal prices or unusable in the normal way
because the goods are subnormal because of damage,
imperfections, shop wear, etc., within the meaning of
Regulations section 1.471-2(c). The goods may be valued at the
bona fide selling price, minus direct cost of disposition (but not
less than scrap value). Bona fide selling price means actual
offering of goods during a period ending not later than 30 days
after inventory date.
If this is the first year the Last-in First-out (LIFO) inventory
method was either adopted or extended to inventory goods not
previously valued under the LIFO method provided in section
472, attach Form 970, Application To Use LIFO Inventory
Method, or a statement with the information required by Form
970.
If the organization changed or extended its inventory method
to LIFO and had to write up the opening inventory to cost in the
year of election, report the effect of this write-up as other income
(Part I, line 12) proportionately over a 3-year period that begins
in the tax year the LIFO election was made (section 472(d)).

Line 5

Enter on Schedule A, Part III, line 5 any costs paid or incurred
during the tax year not entered on Schedule A, Part III, lines 2
through 4. Attach a statement describing the other costs.

Line 7

See Regulations sections 1.263A-1 through 1.263A-3 for details
on figuring the amount of additional section 263A costs to be
included in ending inventory.
If the organization accounts for inventories in the same
manner as materials and supplies that aren't incidental, enter on
Schedule A, Part III, line 7 the portion of its raw materials and
merchandise purchased for resale that are included on
Schedule A, Part III, line 6 and weren’t sold during the year.

Part IV. Rent Income

Section 501(c)(7), (9), and (17) organizations, enter gross rents
in Schedule A, Part I, line 6, and applicable expenses in
Schedule A, Part II, lines 1 through 14. All rents except those
that are exempt function income must be included.
All organizations that have applicable rent income, other than
section 501(c)(7), (9), and (17) organizations, should complete
Schedule A, Part IV. For organizations other than section 501(c)
(7), (9), and (17) organizations, only the following rents are
taxable in Schedule A, Part I, line 6.
1. Rents from personal property leased with real property, if
the rents from the personal property are more than 10% of the
total rents received or accrued under the lease, determined at
the time the personal property is placed in service.
2. Rents from real and personal property if:
a. More than 50% of the total rents received or accrued
under the lease are for personal property, or
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A property held to produce income is debt-financed property
if at any time during the tax year there was acquisition
indebtedness outstanding for the property. When a property held
for the production of income by an organization is disposed of at
a gain during the tax year, and there was acquisition
indebtedness outstanding for that property at any time during the
12-month period before the date of disposition, the property is
debt-financed property. Securities purchased on margin are
considered debt-financed property if the liability incurred in
purchasing them remains outstanding.

b. The amount of the rent depends on the income or profits
derived by any person from the property leased (except an
amount based on a fixed percentage of receipts or sales).
A redetermination of the percentage of rent for personal
property is required when either:
1. There is an increase of 100% or more by the placing of
additional or substitute personal property in service, or
2. There is a modification of the lease that changes the rent
charged. Rents from both real and personal property not taxable
in Schedule A, Part I, line 6, may be taxable on Schedule A, Part
I, line 8 if the income is from a controlled organization or on
Schedule A, Part I, line 7 if the property is debt-financed.
Taxability of the rents must be considered in the following order.
• Rents not taxed on Schedule A, Part I, line 6 may be taxed on
Schedule A, Part I, line 8.
• Rents not taxed on Schedule A, Part I, line 6 or line 8 may be
taxed on Schedule A, Part I, line 7.

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Acquisition indebtedness is the outstanding amount of
principal debt incurred by the organization to acquire or improve
the property. Acquisition indebtedness also includes
indebtedness incurred:
1. Before the property was acquired or improved, if the
indebtedness would not have been incurred but for such
acquisition or improvement of the property; or
2. After the property was acquired or improved, if the
indebtedness would not have been incurred but for such
acquisition or improvement and the incurrence of such
indebtedness was reasonably foreseeable at the time of such
acquisition or improvement. See Regulations section
1.514(c)-1(a).

Rents from personal property not leased with real property
should be reported on Schedule A, Part I, line 12.

See Form 8582 (for trusts) or Form 8810 (for corporations)
and section 469 for limitations on losses from rental activities.

Line 1. Description of Property

With certain exceptions, acquisition indebtedness doesn’t
include debt incurred by:
1. A qualified (section 401) trust in acquiring or improving
real property. See section 514(c)(9).
2. A tax-exempt school (section 170(b)(1)(A)(ii)) and its
affiliated support organizations (section 509(a)(3)) for
indebtedness incurred after July 18, 1984.
3. An organization described in section 501(c)(25) in tax
years beginning after December 31, 1986.
4. An obligation, to the extent that it is insured by the
Federal Housing Administration, to finance the purchase,
rehabilitation, or construction of housing for low and moderate
income persons, or indebtedness incurred by a small business
investment company licensed after October 22, 2004, under the
Small Business Investment Act of 1958 if such indebtedness is
evidenced by a debenture issued by such company under
section 303(a) of that Act, and held or guaranteed by the Small
Business Administration (see section 514(c)(6)(B) for
limitations).
5. A retirement income account described in section 403(b)
(9) in acquiring or improving real property in tax years beginning
on or after August 17, 2006.

Check the box next to the property description if the property is
used both to carry on exempt activities and to conduct unrelated
trade or business activities.

Line 4

For each property, attach a statement describing the directly
connected deductions and their amounts.

Part V. Unrelated Debt-Financed
Income

Use Schedule A, Part V to compute unrelated debt-financed
income described in sections 512(b)(4) and 514 from
debt-financed property only to the extent that the income doesn’t
constitute income from the conduct of an unrelated trade or
business and isn't specifically taxable under other provisions of
the Code, such as taxable rents from personal property leased
with real property reportable on Schedule A, Part IV (and
Schedule A, Part I, line 6), or taxable interest, annuities,
royalties, and rents from a controlled entity reportable on
Schedule A, Part VI (and Schedule A, Part I, line 8). See
Regulations section 1.514(b)-1(b)(2). Refer to Regulations
section 1.512(a)-6 when reporting income from one or more
debt-financed properties and also for rules permitting the
aggregation of unrelated debt-financed income with other UBTI
in certain circumstances. Gain or loss from the sale or
disposition of debt-financed property is reported on Schedule A,
Part I, line 4.

See Pub. 598 for additional exceptions to the rules for
debt-financed property.
Example 1. An exempt organization owns a four-story building.
Two floors are used for an exempt purpose and two floors are
rented (as an unrelated trade or business) for $10,000.
Expenses are $1,000 for depreciation and $5,000 for other
expenses that relate to the entire building. The average
acquisition indebtedness is $6,000, and the average adjusted
basis is $10,000. Both apply to the entire building.
To complete Schedule A, Part V for this example, describe
the property in Schedule A, Part V, line 1. Enter $10,000 in
Schedule A, Part V, line 2 (since the entire amount is for
debt-financed property); $500 and $2,500 in Schedule A, Part V,
line 3(a) and 3(b), respectively (since only one-half of the
expenses are for the debt-financed property); $3,000 and
$5,000 in Schedule A, Part V, lines 4 and 5, respectively (since
only one-half of the acquisition indebtedness and the average
adjusted basis are for debt-financed property); 60% in
Schedule A, Part V, line 6; $6,000 in Schedule A, Part V, line 7;
and $1,800 in Schedule A, Part V, line 9.

Section 501(c)(7), (9), and (17) organizations should report
income from debt-financed property on Schedule A, Part VII
(and Schedule A, Part I, line 9).
When a debt-financed property is held for exempt purposes
and other purposes, the organization must allocate the basis,
debt, income, and deductions among the purposes for which the
property is held. Don't include in Schedule A, Part V amounts
allocated to exempt purposes.
For section 514 purposes, don't treat an interest in a
qualified state tuition program (QSTP) as debt.
CAUTION However, a QSTP's investment income is treated as
debt-financed income if the QSTP incurs indebtedness when
acquiring or improving income-producing property.

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Example 2. Assume the same facts as in Example 1, except
the entire building is rented out as an unrelated trade or
business for $20,000. To complete Schedule A, Part V for this
example, enter $20,000 in Schedule A, Part V, line 2; $1,000
and $5,000 in Schedule A, Part V, lines 3(a) and 3(b),
respectively (since the entire amount is for debt-financed
property); $6,000 and $10,000 in Schedule A, Part V, lines 4 and
5 (since the entire amount is for debt-financed property); 60% in
Schedule A, Part V, line 6; $12,000 in Schedule A, Part V, line 7;
and $3,600 in Schedule A, Part V, line 9.

income, adjust the basis of the property by the entire amount of
allowable depreciation, even though only a part of the deduction
for depreciation is taken into account in figuring unrelated
business taxable income.

Line 1

If no adjustments to the basis of property under section 1011
apply, the basis of the property is cost.

Attach a statement showing, for each property,
1. A brief description of the property,
2. The adjusted basis,
3. The percent allocable to debt-financed income, and
4. The product of (3) multiplied by (4).

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Enter the address of the debt-financed property. If the
debt-financed property is not real property, enter the address
where the property is located and describe the property in Part
XI, Supplemental Information.

See section 514(d) and the related regulations for the basis of
debt-financed property acquired in a complete or partial
liquidation of a corporation in exchange for its stock.

Check the box next to the property description if the property
is used both to carry on exempt activities and to conduct
unrelated trade or business activities.

Line 6

Divide each property's average acquisition indebtedness for the
tax year by that property's average adjusted basis during the
period it is held in the tax year. This percentage cannot be more
than 100%.

Line 2

Enter the gross income from debt financed property, excluding
income otherwise included in unrelated business taxable
income. For example, don't include rents from personal property
shown in Schedule A, Part IV, or rents and interest from
controlled organizations shown in Schedule A, Part VI.

Line 7

The amount of income from debt-financed property included in
unrelated trade or business income is figured by multiplying the
property's gross income by the percentage computed on line 6.

Line 3

Line 8

For amounts shown on line 3a, attach a statement showing, for
each property,
1. The cost or salvage value,
2. The year acquired,
3. The property’s useful life (rounded to a whole number if
necessary),
4. The years remaining (rounded to a whole number if
necessary),
5. The annual depreciation expense amount, and
6. The allowable depreciation expense amount.

Enter on line 8 the sum of amounts computed for each property
on line 7. Also enter this amount on Part I, line 7, column (A).

Line 9

For each debt-financed property, multiply the total deductions
directly connected to the income (including the
dividends-received deductions allowed by sections 243, 244,
and 245) by the percentage computed on line 6. However, if the
debt-financed property is depreciable property, figure the
depreciation deduction by the straight- line method only and
enter the amount in Schedule A, Part V, line 3(a).

Line 4

For each debt-financed property, attach statements showing
separately a computation of the depreciation deduction (if any)
reported in Schedule A, Part V, line 3(a) (as described earlier)
and a breakdown of the expenses included in Schedule A, Part
V, line 3(b). Corporations owning stock that is unrelated
debt-financed property should see Schedule C (Dividends and
Special Deductions) of Form 1120, U.S. Corporation Income Tax
Return, to determine the dividends-received deductions to
include in Schedule A, Part V, line 3(b).

Average acquisition indebtedness for any tax year is the average
amount of the outstanding principal debt during the part of the
tax year the property is held by the organization. To figure the
average amount of acquisition debt, determine the amount of the
outstanding principal debt on the first day of each calendar
month during that part of the tax year that the organization holds
the property. Add these amounts together, and divide the result
by the total number of months during the tax year that the
organization held the property. See section 514(a) and the
related regulations for property acquired for an indeterminate
price.

When a capital loss for the tax year may be carried back or
carried over to another tax year, the amount to carry over or
back is figured by using the percentage determined above.
However, in the year to which the amounts are carried, don't
apply the debt-basis percentage to determine the deduction for
that year.

Attach a statement showing, for each property,
1. The average amount of acquisition debt,
2. The percent allocable to debt-financed income, and
3. The product of (1) multiplied by (2).

Line 10

On line 10 enter the sum of amounts computed for each property
on line 9. Also enter this amount on Part I, line 7, column (B).

Line 5

The average adjusted basis for debt-financed property is the
average of the adjusted basis of the property on the first and last
days during the tax year that the organization holds the property.
Determine the adjusted basis of property under section 1011.
Adjust the basis of the property by the depreciation for all earlier
tax years, whether or not the organization was exempt from tax
for any of these years. Similarly, for tax years during which the
organization is subject to tax on unrelated business taxable

Line 11

Enter the total dividends-received deductions (after reduction,
when applicable, by the debt-basis percentage(s)) included in
Schedule A, Part V, line 9.

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Part VI. Interest, Annuities, Royalties,
and Rents From Controlled
Organizations

(that is, the amount of qualifying specified payments in excess of
what would have been paid or accrued if the payments had been
determined under section 482) are included in a controlling
exempt organization's unrelated business taxable income.

Part VII. Investment Income of a
Section 501(c)(7), (9), or (17)
Organization

Under section 512(b)(13), interest, annuities, royalties, and rents
received or accrued (directly or indirectly) by a controlling
organization from a controlled organization are subject to tax,
whether or not the activity conducted by the controlling
organization to earn these amounts is a trade or business or is
regularly conducted. However, see Regulations section
1.512(b)-1(l)(5) regarding amounts taxable under other
provisions of the Code.

DRAFT AS OF
November 24, 2021
Generally, for section 501(c)(7), (9), or (17) organizations,
unrelated trade or business income includes all gross income
from nonmembers with certain modifications. See section 512(a)
(3)(A). Report on Schedule A, Part VII all income from
investments in securities and other similar investment income
from nonmembers, including 100% of income and directly
connected expenses from debt-financed property. Don't report
nonmember income from debt-financed property on Schedule A,
Part V.

Controlled organization. An entity is a “controlled
organization” if the controlling organization owns:
• By vote or value more than 50% of a corporation's stock (for
an organization that is a corporation);
• More than 50% of a partnership's profits or capital interests
(for an organization that is a partnership); or
• More than 50% of the beneficial interests in an organization
(for an organization other than a corporation or partnership).
To determine the ownership of stock in a corporation, apply
the principles of section 318 (constructive ownership of stock).
Apply similar principles to determine the ownership of interests
in a partnership or any other organization.

All section 501(c)(7), (9), and (17) organizations figure their
investment income using Schedule A, Part VII. Don't include
interest on state and local governmental obligations described in
section 103(a).
Investment income includes all income from debt-financed
property.

If a section 501(c)(7), (9), or (17) organization (or a title
holding corporation described earlier) sells property that was
used for the exempt function of the section 501(c)(7), (9), or (17)
organization and buys other property used for the organization's
exempt function within a period beginning 1 year before the date
of the sale, and ending 3 years after the date of the sale, the gain
from the sale will be recognized only to the extent that the sales
price of the old property is more than the cost of the other
property. The other property need not be similar in type or use to
the old property. The organization must notify the IRS of the sale
by a statement attached to the return, or other written notice.

Column 3. Enter the net unrelated income (or net unrelated
loss) of each controlled entity listed that is exempt from tax
under section 501(a).
Column 7. Enter the taxable income of each nonexempt
controlled organization.
Column 8. Enter the net unrelated income (or net unrelated
loss) of each controlled entity listed that isn't exempt from tax
under section 501(a). Net unrelated income is that portion of the
controlled entity's taxable income that would be unrelated
business taxable income if the entity were exempt under section
501(a) and had the same exempt purposes as the controlling
organization. Net unrelated loss is the controlled organization's
net operating loss adjusted under rules similar to those used to
determine net unrelated income.

To compute the gain on the sale of depreciable property, see
the instructions for Part V, line 5, to determine the adjusted basis
of the property.
Column 3. Deduct only those expenses that are directly
connected to the net investment income. Allocate deductions
between exempt activities and other activities where necessary.
The organization may not take the dividends-received
deductions in figuring net investment income because they
aren't treated as directly connected with the production of gross
income.

Column 4 or 9. For each controlled organization, enter the total
of specified payments received from each controlled
organization. If the organization received both specified
payments and qualifying specified payments from a controlled
organization, enter specified payments on one line and
qualifying specified payments on another so that there are dual
entries for that controlled organization.

Column 4. Section 501(c)(7), (9), and (17) organizations may
set aside income that would otherwise be taxable under section
512(a)(3). However, income derived from an unrelated trade or
business may not be set aside and thus can’t be exempt function
income. In addition, any income set aside and later used for
other purposes must be included in income.
Section 501(c)(7), (9), and (17) organizations won't be taxed
on income set aside for:
1. Religious, charitable, scientific, literary, or educational
purposes, or for the prevention of cruelty to children or animals
(and reasonable administration costs directly connected to such
purposes); or
2. The payment of life, sickness, accident, or other benefits
(and reasonable administration costs directly connected to such
benefits) by a section 501(c)(9) or (17) organization. The amount
allowed as a set aside may not exceed a limit determined using
section 512(a)(3)(E). See sections 512(a)(3)(E) and 419A for
details.

Column 5 or 10. For specified payments, enter the portion of
columns 4 or 9 to the extent that the payment reduced the net
unrelated income (or increased the net unrelated loss) of the
controlled entity.
Column 6 or 11. Enter only those deductions directly
connected with the income entered in columns 5 or 10.
With respect to qualifying specified payments, enter only that
portion of expenses directly connected to the amounts included
in columns 5 or 10, that is, the excess of the payment over the
fair market value amount as determined in accordance with
section 482. Don't enter any expenses relating to the portion of
such payment that isn't includible in income under this special
rule.

!

CAUTION

For valuation misstatements regarding qualifying
specified payments, there is a 20% addition to tax. See
section 512(b)(13)(E)(ii).

Excess qualifying specified payments. Excess qualifying
specified payments received or accrued from a controlled entity
Instructions for Form 990-T

Report income set aside in Schedule A, Part VII, column 4.
Attach a statement listing,
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As a result, the net includible exploited exempt activity
income is the unrelated business taxable income minus the
excess of the exempt activity expenses over the exempt activity
income. If the income from the exempt activity exceeds the
exempt activity expenses, don't add that profit to the net income
from the unrelated business activity. Attach a separate
statement showing the computation.

1. The amount set aside for charitable purposes,
2. The amount set aside for reasonable administration costs
directly connected with such amount,
3. The amount set aside for payment of life, sickness,
accident or other benefits, and
4. The amount set aside for reasonable administration costs
directly connected with the payment of such benefits.

Part IX. Advertising Income

DRAFT AS OF
November 24, 2021
Amounts set aside aren't deductible under section 170 or any
other section of the Code.
The organization may elect to treat income set aside by the
date for filing the return, including any extension of time, as
income set aside in the tax year for which the return is filed. The
income set aside must have been includible in gross income for
that earlier tax year.
Although set aside income may be accumulated, any
accumulation that is unreasonable will be evidence that the set
aside wasn’t for the purposes previously mentioned.
Net investment income set aside must be specifically
earmarked as such, or placed in a separate account or fund
(except for a section 501(c)(9) or (17) organization which, by the
terms of its governing instrument, must use its net investment
income for the payment of life, sickness, accident, or other
benefits, and reasonable administration costs).
These rules apply to a corporation described in section
501(c)(2) (title holding corporation) whose income is payable to
an organization described in section 501(c)(7), (9), or (17) if it
files a consolidated return with the section 501(c)(7), (9), or (17)
organization.

An exempt organization that earned gross income from the sale
of advertising in an exempt organization periodical must
complete Schedule A, Part IX. The part of the advertising income
taken into account is determined as follows.
1. If direct advertising costs (expenses directly connected
with advertising income) are more than advertising income
(unrelated business income), deduct that excess in figuring
unrelated business taxable income from any other unrelated
trade or business activity conducted by the organization.
2. If advertising income is more than direct advertising
costs, and circulation income (exempt activity income) equals or
exceeds readership costs (exempt activity expenses), then
unrelated business taxable income is the excess of advertising
income over direct advertising costs.
3. If advertising income is more than direct advertising
costs, and readership costs are more than circulation income,
then unrelated business taxable income is the excess of total
income (advertising income and circulation income) over total
periodical costs (direct advertising costs and readership costs).
4. If the readership costs are more than the circulation
income, and the net readership costs are more than the excess
of advertising income over direct advertising costs, no loss is
allowable. See Regulations section 1.512(a)-1(f)(2)(ii)(b).

Part VIII. Exploited Exempt Activity
Income, Other Than Advertising
Income

For allocating membership receipts to circulation income, see
Rev. Rul. 81-101, 1981-C.B. 352.

Exempt organizations that have gross income from an unrelated
trade or business activity that exploits an exempt activity (other
than periodical advertising income reportable in Schedule A,
Part IX) should complete Schedule A, Part VIII. See Regulations
section 1.513-1(d)(4)(iv) for a definition of exploited exempt
activity. Report income from advertising other than in a
periodical in Schedule A, Part VIII.

Consolidated periodicals. If an organization publishes two or
more periodicals, it may elect to treat the gross income for all
(but not less than all) periodicals, and deductions directly
connected with those periodicals (including excess readership
costs) as if the periodicals were one to determine its unrelated
business taxable income. This rule only applies to periodicals
published for the production of income. A periodical is
considered published for the production of income if gross
advertising income of the periodical is at least 25% of the
readership costs, and the periodical is an activity engaged in for
profit.
If periodicals are consolidated, check the box next to the
periodical name, and attach a statement showing the name of
each periodical in the consolidated group. The attached
statement should include the amounts that correspond to
information for line 2 through 4. Attach a separate statement for
the consolidated group of publications that includes the amounts
corresponding to the information for lines 5 through 8.

Line 1. Briefly describe the exempt activity being exploited in
an unrelated trade or business activity.
Line 3. An exempt organization may take all deductions directly
connected with the gross income from the unrelated trade or
business activity.
Line 4. Subtract directly connected deductions from the gross
unrelated business income. If unrelated business income
exceeds the directly connected deduction, the exempt
organization may take into account all deductible items
attributable to the exploited exempt activity, with the following
limitations.
1. Reduce the deductible items of the exempt activity by the
income from the activity;
2. Limit the net amount of deductible items arrived at in item
1, above, for the exempt activity to the net unrelated business
income from the exploited exempt activity;
3. Exclude income and expenses of the exempt activity in
figuring a loss carryover or carryback from the unrelated trade or
business activity exploiting the exempt activity; and
4. Exclude deductible items of the exempt activity in figuring
unrelated trade or business income from an activity that isn't
exploiting the same exempt activity.

Part X. Compensation of Officers,
Directors, and Trustees

Complete columns 1 through 4 for those officers, directors, and
trustees whose salaries or other compensation are allocable to
unrelated business gross income. Don't include in column 4
compensation that is deducted on Schedule A, Part II, lines 2,
14, or any line of Schedule A, Parts III through IX.

Part XI. Supplemental Information

Use Part XI to explain the organization’s operations, provide
information for lines that don’t have an embedded attachment to
capture the information to supplement information provided on
an embedded attachment, or to provide any other information in

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support of amounts reported on Schedule A. An organization
that associated unrelated trade or business activity with a
different NAICS or Business Activity Code in a prior year than
the NAICS or Business Activity Code shown on the Schedule A
for the current tax year can enter the explanation for the change
here.
For each entry in Part XI, include the Schedule A, Part and
line number, a brief description and the amount (if any). If
necessary, you may also attach a PDF document to provide
supplemental information.

5884-C, 8038, 8038-B, 8038-CP, 8038-G, 8038-GC, 8038-R,
8038-T, 8038-TC, 8328, 8718, 8282, 8453-TE, 8453-X, 8868,
8870, 8871, 8872, 8879-TE, 8886-T, 8899 and their schedules
and all the forms tax-exempt organizations attach to their tax
returns. Time spent and out-of-pocket costs are presented
separately. Time burden includes the time spent preparing to file
and to file, with recordkeeping representing the largest
component. Out-of-pocket costs include any expenses incurred
by taxpayers to prepare and submit their tax returns. Examples
include tax return preparation and submission fees, postage and
photocopying costs, and tax preparation software costs. Note
that these estimates do not include burden associated with
post-filing activities. IRS operational data indicate that
electronically prepared and filed returns have fewer arithmetic
errors, implying lower post-filing burden.

DRAFT AS OF
November 24, 2021
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on these forms to carry out the Internal Revenue laws of the
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or its instructions must be retained as long as their contents may
become material in the administration of any Internal Revenue
law. Generally, tax returns and return information are
confidential, as required by section 6103.
Estimates of Taxpayer Burden. These include Forms in the
990 series and attachments and 1023, 1024, 1028, 5578,

Reported time and cost burdens are national averages and
do not necessarily reflect a “typical” case. Most taxpayers
experience lower than average burden, with taxpayer burden
varying considerably by taxpayer type. For instance, the
estimated average time burden for all taxpayers filing Forms
990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-T, and 990-N and related forms is
32.8 hours, with an average cost of $921 per return. This
average includes all associated forms and schedules, across all
preparation methods and taxpayer activities.

Fiscal Year 2021 Form 990 Series Tax Compliance Cost Estimates
Form 990

Form 990-EZ

Form 990-PF

Form 990-T

Form 990-N

Projections of the Number of
Returns to be Filed with IRS

321,100

253,200

120,200

162,500

742,000

Estimates Average Total Time
(Hours)

85

45

47

40

2

Estimated Average Total
Out-of-Pocket Costs

$2,600

$500

$2,000

$1,500

$10

Estimated Average Total
Monetized Burden

$8,000

$1,200

$3,900

$4,400

$30

Estimates Total Time (Hours)

27,220,000

11,450,000

5,600,000

6,570,000

1,630,000

Estimated Total Out-of-Pocket
Costs (Note: Totals may not
add due to rounding.)

$849,800,000

$139,000,000

$240,200,000

$237,300,000

$6,800,000

Note: Amounts above are for FY2021. Reported time and cost burdens are national averages and don’t necessarily reflect a “typical” case. Most taxpayers experience lower than average burden,
with taxpayer burden varying considerably by taxpayer type. Detail may not add due to rounding.

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Business Activity Codes
The codes listed below that begin with the digits 1
through 8 are a selection from the North American

Agriculture, Forestry, Hunting
and Fishing
Code
110000

Agriculture, forestry, hunting and
fishing
Crop production

511120
511130
511140
511190

Industry Classification System (NAICS) commonly used
by tax-exempt organizations. If you don’t see a code for
the activity you need to categorize in the list below, refer
to full list of NAICS codes on the NAICS website @
Periodical publishers (except
Internet)
Book publishers (except Internet)
Directory and mailing list
publishers (except Internet)
Other publishers (except
Internet)
Motion picture and sound
recording industries
Radio and television
broadcasting (except Internet)
Telecommunications (including
paging, cellular, satellite, cable,
other telecommunications, and
Internet service providers)
Other information services
(including news syndicates and
libraries)
Internet Publishing and
Broadcast

532289
532420
533110

www.census.gov/cgi-bin/sssd/naics/naicsrch?
chart=2017.

Rental of personal property
Office machinery and equipment
rental and leasing
Lessors of nonfinancial
intangible assets (except
copyrighted works)

Healthcare and Social
Assistance
Code
621110
621300

Offices of physicians
Offices of other health
practitioners
Outpatient care centers
Medical and diagnostic
laboratories
Home health care services
Ambulance services
All other ambulatory health care
services
Nursing and residential care
facilities
Other residential care facilities
Individual and family services
Community centers (except rec.
only), youth Adoption agencies
Community food and housing,
and emergency and other relief
services
Meal delivery programs, Soup
kitchens, or Food banks
Vocational rehabilitation services
Child day care services

DRAFT AS OF
November 24, 2021
111000

Mining
Code
211110
211120
211130
212000

515100

Oil and gas extraction
Crude petroleum extraction
Natural gas extraction
Mining (except oil and gas)

Utilities
Code
221000

Utilities

Construction
Code
230000
236000

512000

Construction
Construction of buildings

517000

519100
519130

Data Processing Services
Code
518210

Finance and Insurance

Code
310000
323100

Code
522100

339110

Manufacturing
Printing and related support
activities
Medical equipment and supplies
manufacturing

Wholesale Trade
Code
423000
424000

Merchant wholesalers, durable
goods
Merchant wholesalers,
nondurable goods

Retail Trade
Code
441100
442000
444100
445100
445200
446110
446199
448000
451110
451211
452000
453000
453220
453310
454110

Automobile dealers
Furniture and home furnishings
stores
Building materials and supplies
dealers
Grocery stores
Specialty food stores
Pharmacies and drug stores
All other health and personal
care stores
Clothing and clothing
accessories stores
Sporting goods stores
Book stores
General merchandise stores
Miscellaneous store retailers
Gift, novelty, and souvenir stores
Used merchandise stores
Electronic shopping and
mail-order houses

Transportation and
Warehousing
Code
480000
485000
493000

Transportation
Transit and ground passenger
transportation
Warehousing and storage

Information
Code
511110

Newspaper publishers (except
Internet)

522200
522110
522220
522291
522292
522298
523000
523920
523930
524113
524114
524126
524130
524292
524298
525100
525920
525990

Code
541100
541990
541200
541300
541380
541511
541519
541610
541700

Data Processing, Hosting, and
Related Services

Manufacturing

Professional, Scientific, and
Technical Services

Depository credit intermediation
(including commercial banking,
savings institutions, and credit
unions)
Nondepository credit
intermediation (including credit
card issuing and sales financing)
Credit card issuing
Sales Financing
Consumer lending
Real estate credit
Other nondepository credit
intermediation
Securities, commodity contracts,
and other financial investments
and related activities
Portfolio management
Investment advice
Direct life insurance carriers
Direct health and medical
insurance carriers
Direct property and casualty
insurance carriers
Reinsurance carriers
Third-party administration of
insurance and pension funds
All other insurance-related
activities
Insurance and employee benefit
funds
Trusts, estates, and agency
accounts
Other Financial vehicles
(including mortgage REITs)

541800
541860
541900

Legal services
Consumer credit counseling
services
Accounting, tax preparation,
bookkeeping, and payroll
services
Architectural, engineering, and
related services
Testing laboratories
Custom computer programming
services
Other computer-related services
Management consulting services
Scientific research and
development services
Advertising and related services
Direct mail advertising
Other professional, scientific,
and technical services

Management of Companies and
Enterprises
Code
551111
551112

Offices of bank holding
companies
Offices of other holding
companies

Administrative and Support
Services
Code
561000
561300
561439
561499
561500
561520
561700

Administrative and support
services
Employment services
Other business service centers
All other business support
services
Travel arrangement and
reservation services
Tour operators
Services to buildings and
dwellings

Waste Management and
Remediation Services
Code
562000

Educational Services

Code
531110

Code
611420
611430

531120

531190
531310
531390
532000

Additional codes listed below that begin
with “9” are not part of the NAICS and are
not listed on the NAICS website. The
non-NAICS business activity codes are
for use on Form 990-T to identify various
types of investments, including certain
partnership and S corporation interests,
reported as separate trades or

Lessors of residential buildings
and dwellings (including equity
REITs)
Lessors of nonresidential
buildings (except
Miniwarehouses)(including
equity REITs)
Lessors of other real estate
property (including equity REITs)
Real estate property managers
Other activities related to real
estate
Rental and leasing services

611600

611710

Computer training
Professional and management
development training
Other schools and instruction
(other than elementary and
secondary schools or colleges
and universities, which should
select a code to describe their
unrelated activities)
Educational support services

businesses under section 512(a)(6)
without regard to the specific trade or
business engaged in by the partnership
or S corporation. See Regulations
section 1.512(a)-6.

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621610
621910
621990
623000
623990
624100
624110
624200
624210
624310
624410

Arts, Entertainment, and
Recreation
Code
711110
711120
711130
711190
711210
711300
713110
713200
713910
713940
713990

Theater companies and dinner
theaters
Dance companies
Musical groups and artists
Other performing art companies
Spectator sports (including
sports clubs and racetracks)
Promoters of performing arts,
sports and similar events
Amusement and theme parks
Gambling industries
Golf courses and country clubs
Fitness and recreational sports
centers
All other amusement and
recreation industries (including
skiing facilities, marinas, and
bowling centers)

Accommodation and Food
Services
Code
721000
721110

Waste management and
remediation services (sanitary
services)

Real Estate and Rental Leasing

621400
621500

721210
721310
722320
722440
722511
722513
722514
722515

Accommodation
Hotels (except casino hotels)
and motels
RV (recreational vehicle) parks
and recreational camps
Rooming and boarding houses,
dormitories, and workers’ camps
Caterers
Drinking places (alcoholic
beverages)
Full-service restaurants
Limited-service restaurants
Cafeterias and buffets
Snack and non-alcoholic
beverage bars

Other Services
Code
811000
812300
812900
812930

Repair and maintenance
Dry cleaning and laundry
services
Other personal services
Parking lots and garages

Non-NAICS Business
Activity Codes

In the Codes below that include “###”
replace “#” with numbers to identify each
interest (nonqualified S corporation, or
passive income activity). For example, if

four Schedules A are being filed to report
unrelated trade or business income from
four separate non qualifying S
corporation interests, the business
activity code entered in Item C at the top
of the four Schedules A would be
904001, 904002, 904003, and 904004,
respectively.

Directly connected expenses. To be
deductible in computing unrelated
business taxable income, expenses,
depreciation, and similar items must
qualify as deductions allowed by section
162, 167, or other sections, and must be
directly connected with the conduct of
unrelated trade or business activity.
To be directly connected with the
conduct of an unrelated trade or business
activity, expenses, depreciation, and
similar items must bear a proximate and
primary relationship to the conduct of the
activity. For example, where facilities
and/or personnel are used both to
conduct exempt activities and to conduct
an unrelated trade or business, expenses
and similar items attributable to such
facilities and/or personnel must be
allocated between the two uses on a
reasonable basis. The portion of any
such item allocated to the unrelated trade
or business must bear a proximate and
primary relationship to that unrelated
trade or business.

the organization's need for income or
funds or the use it makes of the profits).
Generally, for section 501(c)(7), (9), or
(17) organizations, unrelated trade or
business income is derived from
nonmembers with certain modifications
(see section 512(a)).
For a section 511(a)(2)(B) state
college or university, or a corporation
wholly owned by such a college or
university, unrelated trade or business
income is derived from activities not
substantially related to exercising or
performing any purpose or function
described in section 501(c)(3).
An unrelated trade or business
doesn’t include a trade or business:
1. In which substantially all the work
is performed for the organization without
compensation; or
2. That is conducted by a section
501(c)(3) or 511(a)(2)(B) organization
mainly for the convenience of its
members, students, patients, officers, or
employees; or
3. That sells items of work-related
equipment and clothes, and items
normally sold through vending machines,
food dispensing facilities or by snack
bars, by a local association of employees
described in section 501(c)(4), organized
before May 27, 1969, if the sales are for
the convenience of its members at their
usual place of employment; or
4. That sells merchandise
substantially all of which was received by
the organization as gifts or contributions;
or
5. That consists of qualified public
entertainment activities regularly
conducted by a section 501(c)(3), (4), or
(5) organization as one of its substantial
exempt purposes (see section 513(d)(2)
for the meaning of qualified public
entertainment activities); or
6. That consists of qualified
convention or trade show activities
regularly conducted by a section 501(c)
(3), (4), (5), or (6) organization as one of
its substantial exempt purposes (see
section 513(d)(3) for the meaning of
qualified convention and trade show
activities); or
7. That furnishes one or more
services described in section 501(e)(1)
(A) by a hospital to one or more hospitals
subject to conditions in section 513(e); or
8. That consists of qualified pole
rentals, as defined in section 501(c)(12)
(D), by a mutual or cooperative telephone
or electric company; or
9. That includes activities relating to
the distribution of low-cost articles, each
costing $11.30 (per Rev. Proc. 2020-45
section 3.34(1)) or less, by an
organization described in section 501

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901101. Investment activities, including:
• Debt-financed income (512(b)(4));
• Qualifying partnership interests;
• Qualifying S corporation interests; and
• Certain gross income of organizations
subject to section 512(a)(3), (501(c)(7),
(9), or (17)).
901301. Insurance income derived from
controlled foreign corporations (section
512(b)(17)).
903###. Passive income activities with
controlled organizations.
904###. Nonqualifying S corporation
interests.
You must report each separate
unrelated trade or business using the first
two digits of the NAICS code that most
accurately describes the unrelated trade
or business based on the more specific
NAICS code, such as at the 6-digit level.
Investment activities reported as
separate trades or businesses that are
identified with a non-NAICS business
activity code should use the 6-digit code
from the list above. See Regulation
section 1.512(a)-6(b)(1).
Item C at the top of Schedule A
requires a 6-digit entry. Enter a 2-digit
NAICS Code by entering the first digits
followed by four zeros.

Appendix A. Definitions
Section 501(c)(3) organization.
Section 501(c)(3) describes certain
organizations which are exempt from
taxation under section 501(a). A 501(c)
(3) organization is an organization
organized and operated exclusively for
charitable purposes. See Regulations
section 1.501(c)(3)-1(a).
Annual return. An annual return (for
purposes of the public inspection rules
discussed below) is an exact copy of the
Form 990-T that was filed with the IRS,
including all schedules and attachments.
It also includes any amendments to the
original return (amended return).
By annual return (for purposes of the
public inspection rules discussed below),
we mean any annual return (defined
above) that isn't more than 3 years old
from the later of:
• The date the return is required to be
filed (including extensions), or
• The date that the return is actually
filed.

Not substantially related to. “Not
substantially related to” means the
activity that produces the income doesn’t
contribute importantly to the exempt
purposes of the organization, other than
the need for funds. Whether an activity
contributes importantly depends in each
case on the facts involved.
For details, see Pub. 598, Tax on
Unrelated Business Income of Exempt
Organizations.
Trade or business. A trade or
business is any activity conducted for the
production of income from selling goods
or performing services. An activity must
be conducted with intent to profit to
constitute a trade or business. An activity
doesn’t lose its identity as a trade or
business merely because it is conducted
within a larger group of similar activities
that may or may not be related to the
exempt purpose of the organization. If,
however, an activity conducted for profit
is an unrelated trade or business, no part
of it can be excluded from this
classification merely because it doesn’t
result in profit.
Separate trade or business. An
organization with more than one
unrelated trade or business should refer
to Regulations section 1.512(a)-6 to
determine if two or more trades or
businesses are separate trades or
businesses for purposes of calculating
UBTI.
Unrelated trade or business income.
Unrelated trade or business income is the
gross income derived from any trade or
business (defined above) regularly
carried on and not substantially related to
(defined above) the organization's
exempt purpose or function (aside from
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and contributions to which are deductible
under section 170(c)(2) or (3) if the
distribution is incidental to the solicitation
of charitable contributions; or
10. That includes the exchange or
rental of donor or membership lists
between organizations described in
section 501 and contributions to which
are deductible under section 170(c)(2) or
(3); or
11. That consists of bingo games as
defined in section 513(f). Generally, a
bingo game isn't included in any
unrelated trade or business if:
a. Wagers are placed, winners are
determined, and prizes are
distributed in the presence of all
persons wagering in that game, and
b. The game doesn’t compete with
bingo games conducted by for-profit
businesses in the same jurisdiction,
and
c. The game doesn’t violate state or
local law; or
12. That consists of conducting any
game of chance by a nonprofit
organization in the state of North Dakota
and the conducting of the game doesn’t
violate any state or local law; or
13. That consists of soliciting and
receiving qualified sponsorship payments
that are solicited or received after
December 31, 1997. Generally, qualified
sponsorship payment means any
payment to a tax-exempt organization by
a person engaged in a trade or business
in which there is no arrangement or
expectation of any substantial return
benefit by that person other than the use
or acknowledgment of that person's
name, logo, or product lines in
connection with the activities of the
tax-exempt organization. See section
513(i).

resolution authorizing the contributions
was adopted by the board of directors
during the tax year. The declaration
statement must also include the date the
resolution was adopted. See Regulations
section 1.170A-11.
Charitable contributions over the 10%
limitation can’t be deducted for the tax
year, but may be carried over to the next
5 tax years.
In figuring the charitable contributions
deduction, if the corporation has an NOL
carryover to the tax year, the 10% limit is
applied using the taxable income after
taking into account any deduction for the
NOL.
To figure the amount of any remaining
NOL carryover to later years, taxable
income must be modified. See section
172(b). To the extent charitable
contributions are used to reduce taxable
income for this purpose and increase a
net operating loss carryover, a
contributions carryover isn't allowed. See
section 170(d)(2)(B).

cash contributed, describes any property
contributed, and either gives a
description and a good faith estimate of
the value of any goods or services
provided in return for the contribution or
states that no goods or services were
provided in return for the contribution.
The acknowledgment must be obtained
by the due date (including extension) of
the organization's return, or, if earlier, the
date the return is filed. However, see
section 170(f)(8) and the related
regulations for exceptions to this rule.
Don't attach the acknowledgment to the
return but keep it with the organization's
records.

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Appendix B. Charitable
Contribution Deduction
Charitable contributions. Filers should
use the following information regarding
the charitable contribution deduction to
complete Form 990-T, Part I, line 4.
Corporations. The total amount claimed
normally can’t be more than 10% of
unrelated business taxable income
figured without regard to the following.
• Any deduction for contributions.
• Any capital loss carryback to the tax
year under section 1212(a)(1).
Corporations on the accrual basis can
elect to deduct contributions paid by the
15th day of the 4th month after the end of
the tax year if the contributions are
authorized by the board of directors
during the tax year. Attach a declaration
statement to the return stating that the

Trusts. In general.
1. For contributions to organizations
described in section 170(b)(1)(A), the
amount claimed may not be more than
50% of the unrelated business taxable
income figured without this deduction;
and
2. For contributions to other
organizations, the amount claimed may
not be more than the smaller of:
a. 30% of unrelated business taxable
income figured without this
deduction; or
b. The amount by which 50% of the
unrelated business taxable income is
more than the contributions allowed
in 1 above.
An increased limitation may be
available for cash contributions under
section 170(b)(1)(G).
Trusts that make qualified cash
contributions in calendar years 2020 or
2021 may be eligible to deduct these
contributions without regard to the normal
taxable income limits for trusts. For more
information, see section 2205 of the
CARES Act and section 213 of the
Taxpayer Certainty and Disaster Relief
Act of 2020.
Contributions not allowable in
whole or in part because of the
CAUTION limitations may not be deducted
as a business expense but may be
carried over to the next 5 tax years.

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Substantiation requirements.
Generally, no deduction is allowed for
any contribution of $250 or more, unless
the organization gets a written
acknowledgment from the donee
organization that shows the amount of
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Note. For contributions of cash, check,
or other monetary gifts (regardless of the
amount), the organization must maintain
a bank record, or a receipt, letter, or other
written communication from the donee
organization indicating the name of the
organization, the date of the contribution,
and the amount of the contribution.

Contributions of property other than
cash. If an organization contributes
property other than cash and claims over
a $500 deduction for the property, it must
attach a statement to the return
describing the kind of property
contributed and the method used to
determine its fair market value (FMV). All
organizations generally must complete
and attach Form 8283, Noncash
Charitable Contributions, to their returns
for contributions of property (other than
money) if the total claimed deduction for
all property contributed was more than
$5,000. Special rules apply to the
contribution of certain property. See the
Instructions for Form 8283. A donee
organization must use Form 8282, Donee
Information Return, to report information
to the IRS and donors about dispositions
of certain charitable deduction property
made within 3 years after the donor
contributed the property. See the
Instructions for Form 8282.
Special rules for contributions of certain easements in registered historic
districts. The following rules apply to
certain contributions of real property
interests located in a registered historic
district.
• A deduction is allowed for the qualified
real property interest, if the exterior of the
building (including the front, side, rear,
and space above the building) is
preserved and no portion of the exterior
is changed in a manner that is
inconsistent with its historical character.
See section 170(h)(4)(B).
• A deduction is allowed on the building
only (no deduction is allowed for a
structure or land) if located in a registered
historic district. However, if listed in the
National Register, a deduction is also

allowed for structures or land areas. See
section 170(h)(4)(C).
• The organization must also include the
following information with the tax return.
1. A qualified appraisal (as defined in
section 170(f)(11)(E)) of the qualified
property interest.
2. Photographs of the entire exterior
of the building.
3. A description of all restrictions on
the development of the building. See
section 170(h)(4)(B)(iii).

attachments (statements), and
supporting documents that relate to the
imposition of tax on unrelated business
income must be made available for public
inspection when attached to a section
501(c)(3) organization's Form 990-T filed
after August 17, 2006.
The following documents, when
attached to a section 501(c)(3)
organization's Form 990-T filed after
August 17, 2006, aren't required to be
made available for public inspections.
• Form 926, Return by a U.S. Transferor
of Property to a Foreign Corporation;
• Form 5471, Information Return of U.S.
Persons With Respect to Certain Foreign
Corporations;
• Form 8271, Investor Reporting of Tax
Shelter Registration Number;
• Form 8594, Asset Acquisition
Statement Under Section 1060;
• Form 8621, Information Return by a
Shareholder of a Passive Foreign
Investment Company or Qualified
Electing Fund;
• Form 8832, Entity Classification
Election;
• Form 8858, Information Return of U.S.
Persons With Respect to Foreign
Disregarded Entities;
• Form 8865, Return of U.S. Person with
Respect to Certain Foreign Partnerships;
• Form 8886, Reportable Transaction
Disclosure Statement;
• Form 8913, Credit for Federal
Telephone Excise Tax Paid;
• Form 8925, Report of
Employer-Owned Life Insurance
Contracts;
• Form 8941, Credit for Small Employer
Health Insurance Premiums; and
• Form 8975, Country-by-Country
Report.

photocopying equipment to the place of
inspection.
Determining if a site is a regional or
district office. A regional or district
office is any office of a 501(c)(3)
organization, other than its principal
office, that has paid employees whose
total number of paid hours a week are
normally 120 hours or more. Include the
hours worked by part-time (as well as
full-time) employees in making that
determination.
What sites aren't considered a
regional or district office. A site isn't
considered a regional or district office if:
1. The only services provided at the
site further the organization's exempt
purposes (for example, day care, health
care, or scientific or medical research),
and
2. The site doesn’t serve as an office
for management staff, other than
managers who are involved only in
managing the exempt function activities
at the site.

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• The organization's deduction may be

reduced if rehabilitation credits were
claimed on the building. See section
170(f)(14).
• A $500 filing fee may apply to certain
deductions over $10,000. See section
170(f)(13).

Reduced deductions for contributions
for certain property. The organization
must reduce its deduction for
contributions of certain capital gain
property and qualified appreciated stock.
See sections 170(e)(1) and 170(e)(5).

Special rules for corporation. A larger
deduction is allowed for certain
contributions of:
• Inventory and other property to certain
organizations for use in the care of the ill,
needy, or infants (including contributions
of apparently wholesome food (see
section 170(e)(3)(C))); and
• Scientific equipment used for research
to institutions of higher learning or to
certain scientific research organizations
(see section 170(e)(4)).
See section 170, the related
regulations, and Pub. 526, Charitable
Contributions.

Appendix C. Public
Inspection of Form
990-T Returns Filed by
Section 501(c)(3)
Organizations
Public inspection requirements of
section 501(c)(3) organizations.
Under section 6104(d), a section 501(c)
(3) organization that files Form 990-T
must make its entire annual exempt
organization business income tax return
(including amended returns) available for
public inspection.
The Form 990-T and related
schedules must be made available for
public inspection for a period of 3 years
from the date the Form 990-T is required
to be filed, including any extension.
What schedules and attachments to
Form 990-T must be made available
for public inspection? Only schedules,

How does a 501(c)(3) organization
make its annual returns available for
public inspection? A 501(c)(3)
organization must make its annual
returns available in two ways.
• By office visitation, and
• By providing copies or making them
widely available.
Public inspection by office visitation.
A 501(c)(3) organization must make its
annual returns available for public
inspection without charge at its principal,
regional, and district offices during
regular business hours.
Conditions that may be set for public
inspection at the office. A 501(c)(3)
organization:
• May have an employee present,
• Must allow the individual conducting
the inspection to take notes freely during
the inspection, and
• Must allow an individual to make
photocopies of documents at no charge
but only if the individual brings
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What if the 501(c)(3) organization
doesn’t maintain a permanent office?
If the 501(c)(3) organization doesn’t
maintain a permanent office, it will
comply with the public inspection by
office visitation requirement by making
the annual returns available at a
reasonable location of its choice. It must
permit public inspection:
• Within a reasonable amount of time
after receiving a request for inspection
(normally, not more than 2 weeks), and
• At a reasonable time of day.
Optional method of complying. If a
501(c)(3) organization that doesn’t have
a permanent office wishes not to allow an
inspection by office visitation, it may mail
a copy of the requested documents
instead of allowing an inspection.
However, it must mail the documents
within 2 weeks of receiving the request
and may charge for copying and postage
only if the requester consents to the
charge.
501(c)(3) organizations with a
permanent office but limited or no
hours. Even if a 501(c)(3) organization
has a permanent office but no office
hours or very limited hours during certain
times of the year, it must still meet the
office visitation requirement. To meet this
requirement during those periods when
office hours are limited or not available,
follow the rules above under What if the
501(c)(3) organization doesn’t maintain a
permanent office?

Public Inspection—Providing
Copies

A 501(c)(3) organization must provide
copies of its annual returns to any
individual who makes a request for a

copy in person or in writing unless it
makes these documents widely
available.
In-person requests for document copies. A 501(c)(3) organization must
provide copies to any individual who
makes a request in person at the 501(c)
(3) organization's principal, regional, or
district offices during regular business
hours on the same day that the individual
makes the request.
Accepted delay in fulfilling an
in-person request. If unusual
circumstances exist and fulfilling a
request on the same day places an
unreasonable burden on the 501(c)(3)
organization, it must provide copies by
the earlier of:
• The next business day following the
day that the unusual circumstances end,
or
• The fifth business day after the date of
the request.
Examples of unusual circumstances
include:
• Receipt of a volume of requests (for
document copies) that exceeds the
501(c)(3) organization's daily capacity to
make copies,
• Requests received shortly before the
end of regular business hours that
require an extensive amount of copying,
or
• Requests received on a day when the
501(c)(3) organization's managerial staff
capable of fulfilling the request is
conducting official duties (for example,
student registration or attending an
off-site meeting or convention) instead of
its regular administrative duties.
Use of local agents for providing
copies. A 501(c)(3) organization may
use a local agent to handle in-person
requests for document copies. If a 501(c)
(3) organization uses a local agent, it
must immediately provide the local
agent's name, address, and telephone
number to the requester.
The local agent must:
• Be located within reasonable proximity
to the principal, regional, or district office
where the individual makes the request,
and
• Provide document copies within the
same time frames as the 501(c)(3)
organization.

a private delivery service approved by
the IRS (see Private Delivery Service,
earlier, for a list), and
• Gives the address to which the
document copies should be sent.
How and when a written request is
fulfilled.
• Requested document copies must be
mailed within 30 days from the date the
501(c)(3) organization receives the
request.
• Unless other evidence exists, a
request or payment that is mailed is
considered to be received by the 501(c)
(3) organization 7 days after the
postmark date.
• If an advance payment is required,
copies must be provided within 30 days
from the date payment is received.
• If the 501(c)(3) organization requires
payment in advance and it receives a
request without payment or with
insufficient payment, it must notify the
requester of the prepayment policy and
the amount due within 7 days from the
date it receives the request.
• A request that is transmitted to the
501(c)(3) organization by email or fax is
considered received the day the request
is transmitted successfully.
• Requested documents can be
e-mailed instead of the traditional method
of mailing if the requester consents to this
method.
A document copy is considered as
provided on the,
• Postmark date,
• Private delivery date,
• Registration date for certified or
registered mail,
• Postmark date on the sender's receipt
for certified or registered mail, or
• Day the email is successfully
transmitted (if the requester agreed to
this method).
Requests for parts of a document
copy. A person can request all or any
specific part or schedule of the annual
returns and the 501(c)(3) organization
must fulfill their request for a copy.
Can an agent be used to provide
copies? A 501(c)(3) organization can
use an agent to provide document copies
for the written requests it receives.
However, the agent must provide the
document copies under the same
conditions that are imposed on the 501(c)
(3) organization itself. Also, if an agent
fails to provide the documents as
required, the 501(c)(3) organization will
continue to be subject to penalties.

The deadline for providing a response
is referenced by the date that the ABC
Organization received the request and
not when the agent received it. If the
agent received the request first, then a
response would be referenced to the
date that the agent received it.
Can a fee be charged for providing
copies? A 501(c)(3) organization may
charge a reasonable fee for providing
copies. Also, it can require the fee to be
paid before providing a copy of the
requested document.
What is a reasonable fee? A fee is
reasonable only if it is no more than the
per-page copying fee charged by the IRS
for providing copies, plus no more than
the actual postage costs incurred to
provide the copies.
What forms of payment must the
501(c)(3) organization accept? The
form of payment depends on whether the
request for copies is made in person or in
writing.
Cash and money order must be
accepted for in-person requests for
document copies. The 501(c)(3)
organization, if it wishes, may accept
additional forms of payment.
Certified check, money order, and
either personal check or credit card must
be accepted for written requests for
document copies. The 501(c)(3)
organization, if it wishes, may accept
additional forms of payment.
Other fee information. If a 501(c)(3)
organization provides a requester with
notice of a fee and the requester doesn’t
pay the fee within 30 days, the 501(c)(3)
organization may ignore the request.
If a requester's check doesn’t clear on
deposit, the 501(c)(3) organization may
ignore the request.
If a 501(c)(3) organization doesn’t
require prepayment and the requester
doesn’t prepay, the 501(c)(3)
organization must receive consent from
the requester if the copying and postage
charge exceeds $20.

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Written requests for document copies. If a 501(c)(3) organization receives
a written request for a copy of its annual
returns (or parts of these documents), it
must give a copy to the requester.
However, this rule only applies if the
request;
• Is addressed to a 501(c)(3)
organization's principal, regional, or
district office;
• Is delivered to that address by mail,
electronic mail (email), facsimile (fax), or

Example. The ABC Organization
retained an agent to provide copies for all
written requests for documents.
However, ABC Organization received a
request for document copies before the
agent did.

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501(c)(3) organizations subject to a
harassment campaign. If the IRS
determines that a 501(c)(3) organization
is being harassed, it isn't required to
comply with any request for copies that it
reasonably believes is part of the
harassment campaign.
A group of requests for a 501(c)(3)
organization's annual return is indicative
of a harassment campaign if the requests
are part of a single coordinated effort to
disrupt the operations of the 501(c)(3)
organization rather than to collect
information about it.
Requests that may be disregarded
without IRS approval. A 501(c)(3)
organization may disregard any request
for copies of all or part of any document

beyond the first two received within any
30-day period or the first four received
within any 1-year period from the same
individual or the same address.

Making the Annual Returns
Widely Available

A 501(c)(3) organization doesn’t have to
provide copies of its annual returns if it
makes these documents widely
available. However, it must still allow
public inspection by office visitation.

readers that the document is available
and provides instructions for
downloading the document;
• After it is downloaded and viewed, the
web document exactly reproduces the
image of the annual return as it was
originally filed with the IRS, except for
any information permitted by statute to be
withheld from public disclosure; and
• Any individual with access to the
Internet can access, download, view, and
print the document without special
computer hardware or software required
for that format (except software that is
readily available to members of the public
without payment of any fee) and without
payment of a fee to the 501(c)(3)
organization or to another entity
maintaining the web page.
3. The reliability and accuracy
requirements are met if the entity
maintaining the Internet page:
• Has procedures for ensuring the
reliability and accuracy of the document
that it posts on the page;
• Takes reasonable precautions to
prevent alteration, destruction, or
accidental loss of the document when
posted on its page; and
• Corrects or replaces the document if a
posted document is altered, destroyed,
or lost.

4. The notice requirement is met if a
501(c)(3) organization notifies any
individual requesting a copy of its annual
return where the documents are available
(including the Internet address). If the
request is made in person, the 501(c)(3)
organization must notify the individual
immediately. If the request is in writing, it
must notify the individual within 7 days of
receiving the request.

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How does a 501(c)(3) organization
make its annual returns widely available? A 501(c)(3) organization's annual
returns are widely available if it meets all
four of the following requirements.
1. The Internet posting requirement
is met if:
• The document is posted on an Internet
page that the 501(c)(3) organization
establishes and maintains, or
• The document is posted as part of a
database of like documents of other
tax-exempt organizations on an Internet
page established and maintained by
another entity.
2. An additional posting information
requirement is met if:
• The Internet page through which the
document is available clearly informs

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Penalties

A penalty may be imposed on any person
who doesn’t make the annual returns
(including all required attachments)
available for public inspection according
to the section 6104(d) rules discussed,
earlier. If more than one person fails to
comply, each person is jointly and
severally liable for the full amount of the
penalty. The penalty amount is $20 for
each day during which a failure occurs.
The maximum penalty that may be
imposed on all persons for any one
annual return is $10,000.
Any person who willfully fails to
comply with the section 6104(d) public
inspection requirements is subject to an
additional penalty of $5,000.

Index
A
Accounting method 6
Accounting Period 7
Alcohol and Cellulosic Biofuel Fuels
Credit 18
Alternative Minimum Tax (Trusts
Only) 10
Amortization 20
Appendix A 1
Appendix C. Public Inspection of Form
990-T Returns Filed by Section 501(c)
(3) Organizations 7

E
Employer-owned life insurance
contracts 18
Estimated Tax Payments 11
Estimated Tax Penalty 12
Exceptions and special rules:
Member income of mutual or
cooperative electric companies.:
Income from qualifying shipping
activities. 14
Passive loss and at-risk
limitations. 14
Exploited Exempt Activity Income, Other
Than Advertising Income 26

N
Name and Address:
Change of name. 7
Net Gain or (Loss) 17
Net Operating Loss (NOL) 21
Nonaccrual experience method 16

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B
Backup Withholding 11
Biodiesel and Renewable Diesel Fuels
Credit 18

C
Capital Gain Net Income 16
Capital Loss Deduction for Trusts 17
Certain Activities and Other Information:
Signature or other authority over a
financial account in a foreign
country:
Report of Foreign Bank and
Financial Accounts (FBAR) 12
Change in address:
Archer MSA 8
Coverdell ESA 8
IRA, SEP, or SIMPLE 8
Qualified ABLE Program 8
Qualified State Tuition Program 8
Roth IRA 8
Charitable Contributions 8
Compensation of Officers, Directors, and
Trustees 26
Consolidated periodicals 26
Cost of Goods Sold 21
Credit for Prior Year Minimum Tax 10
Credit for Small Employer Health
Insurance Premiums:
Tax-exempt eligible small
employer 11
D
Debt-financed property disposition 16
Deduction for Net Operating Loss 9
Deductions Not Taken Elsewhere:
Directly connected expenses 18
Depletion 21
Disposition of property received from
taxable subsidiary 16
Disregarded entity 2

F
Foreign Organizations 11
Foreign Tax Credit 10
G
Gain or loss on disposition of certain
brownfield property 16
General Business Credit:
Refundable small employer tax
credit 10
Gross Receipts or Sales:
Advance payments:
Installment sales 15
H
How to report. 11

O
Organizations described in section
501(c)(19) 18
Organizations Taxable as
Corporations. 9
Other Credits 10
Other Deductions:
Extraterritorial income exclusion 21
Other tax amounts:
Excess distribution from a passive
foreign investment company
(PFIC) 9
P
Paperwork Reduction Act Notice 27
Partnerships 17
Passive foreign investment company
(PFIC) shareholders 18
Payment card and third party network
transactions 15
Proxy Tax 9
Public Inspection Requirements of
Section 501(c)(3) 7
Purpose of Form 1

I
Income from property financed with
qualified 501(c)(3) bonds 18
Income or (Loss) From a Partnership or
an S Corporation 17
Interest 20
Interest, Annuities, Royalties, and Rents
From Controlled Organizations:
Controlled organization 25
Qualifying specified payment 25
Specified payment 25

R
Recapture of investment credit:
Recapture of low-income housing
credit:
Interest due under the look-back
method. 10
Recoveries of bad debts deducted 18
Rent Income 22
Reporting 990-T Information on Other
Returns 7
Reserved 8
Rounding Off to Whole Dollars 7

L
Limitations on Deductions:
Activities Lacking a Profit Motive 18
Deductions Related to Property
Leased to Tax-Exempt Entities 18
Preference Items 18
Section 263A Uniform Capitalization
Rules 18
Transactions Between Related
Taxpayers 18

S
S Corporations:
Qualified tax-exempts:
Exception 17
Section 199A Deduction 9
Section 263A Uniform Capitalization
Rules:
Indirect expenses 19
Interest expense 19
Section 481(a) adjustment 7

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Section 965 Payments:
Net tax liability in installments 11
Separate trades or businesses:
Dual-use property:
Which Parts to Complete 13
Specific deduction 9
Supplemental Information:
Signature:
Paid preparer 13
Special rule for IRA trusts 13

IRS.gov/E-pay 12
Tax on Noncompliant Facility Income 10
Tax Rate Schedule for Trusts 9
Total of Unrelated Business Taxable
Income Computed From all Unrelated
Trades or Businesses 8
Total Tax:
How to report. 11
Total Unrelated Business Taxable
Income 8
Travel, Meals, and Entertainment 19
Trust filers only:
Qualified Business Income Deduction:
Determines the unrelated business
income separately for each
unrelated trade or business 9

U
Unrelated Debt-Financed Income 23
Unrelated Trade or Business Income:
Purpose of the Schedule 13
W
When are section 263A capitalized costs
deductible:
Exceptions 19
Who Must File 2

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T
Tax and Payments 10
Tax Due:
Pay by credit or debit card:

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