Encouraging New Markets Tax Credit Non-Real Estate Investments

Résumé

This document invites comments from the public on issues that the Treasury Department and the IRS may address in regulations relating to the new markets tax credit. Specifically, this document invites comments from the public on how the new markets tax credit program may be amended to encourage non-real estate investments. The regulations will affect taxpayers claiming the new markets tax credit. The Treasury Department and the IRS have published separately in this issue of the Federal Register, a notice of proposed rulemaking REG-101826-11 modifying the new markets tax credit program by providing specific rules concerning a qualified community development entity's investment of certain returns of capital from non-real estate businesses.