Tax planning and compliance for investors Free Newsletter. Thomas Posted December 31, Updated January 28, Special rules for old unused AMT credit, first available inare drastically revised for This is the first in a group of articles offering complete coverage of the refundable AMT credit, which provides a way exercise many people to use more AMT credit than under the regular rules. Some people who pay AMT are allowed to claim a credit in later years. This credit is allowed only if you previously exercise AMT based on certain items, such as the exercise of incentive stock options. It doesn't apply to AMT paid on many other items that are encountered more often, such as the itemized deduction for state and local taxes. The part of your AMT payment that's eligible to be treated as a credit in later years is your available AMT credit. Merely having available AMT credit isn't enough to provide options with a tax benefit. You need to meet the requirements to actually use the credit. Prior to there was only one way to do that, using what we now call the regular AMT credit. Under these rules you can claim AMT credit only in a year your regular income tax is higher than the tax calculated under the AMT rules, and only to the extent of the difference between the two taxes. People who pay large amounts of AMT in connection with the exercise of incentive stock options often find they aren't able to use forward their AMT credit even after several years options passed. That's especially true but not exclusively true when the stock loses value between the time the option is exercised and the time the shares are sold. The unused credit continues to carry forward indefinitely, but may be providing little or no benefit on each year's tax return. Beginning with the tax year returns filed inyou have another possible way to claim AMT credit if some options all of your available AMT credit is at least four years old we'll call it long-term unused AMT credit. This rule doesn't limit the amount of credit you can claim to the amount your regular tax exceeds the tax under the Stock rules. You can claim credit under this rule even in a year you pay AMT. What's more, the amount of credit allowed under this rule can be greater than the total amount of tax on your stock. In other words, your refund can be larger than the amount you paid in the form of withholding or estimated tax. This is why we call it the refundable AMT credit. More importantly for many people, Congress eliminated the income phase-out. If you have long-term unused AMT credit, you can recover half on your income tax return and the other half on your return. Some people will be getting sizeable incentive from the IRS. Your income tax withholding is roughly equal to the amount of tax you would otherwise owe. Most people will receive much smaller refunds, of course, but for a number of people the refunds will be even larger. Some people exercising incentive stock options incurred AMT liability that was beyond their ability to pay. In addition to allowing the credit for people who paid the tax, Congress abated the tax for people who were never able to pay it. Congress also abated interest and penalties, and for people who have paid interest and penalties, allowed an increase in the credit for these items. Current law allows the refundable AMT credit only for the forward througha total of six years. Congress sometimes imposes time limits on tax benefits as a way to incentive budgetary constraints, with the intention of extending the benefit or making it permanent at a later time. It isn't clear that this stock the case here, however. The main justification for the refundable AMT credit and the only one that holds forward, in my opinion is to provide relief to people who suffered extraordinary disasters when the bubble in tech stocks collapsed beginning in By those people will have fully recovered any credit they have relating to the tech stock collapse, and the tax benefit of this provision will flow primarily to other taxpayers for whom relief is harder to justify. An options beyond that year is possible, but we can't include the refundable AMT credit in the list of items Congress is more or less certain to extend. The refundable AMT credit is a complicated provision, and we have complete details on how it works. 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