Income Tax Credits
Residential Energy Efficient Property
Child and Dependent Care Credit
Ten Things to Know About the Child and Dependent Care Credit
§129 Qualified Dependent Care Assistance Program (DCAP)
If you are self-employed and receive benefits from a DCAP you are treated as both employer and employee. Therefore, you would not get an exclusion from wages. Instead, you would get a deduction on Form 1040, Schedule C, line 14; Schedule E, line 19 or 28; or Schedule F, line 15. To claim the deduction, you must use Form 2441.
Small Business Health Care Tax Credit
The small business health care tax credit benefits employers that:
- offer coverage through the small business health options program, also known as the SHOP marketplace
- have fewer than 25 full-time equivalent employees
- pay an average wage of less than $50,000 a year
- pay at least half of employee health insurance premiums
Here are five facts about this credit:
- The maximum credit is 50 percent of premiums paid for small business employers and 35 percent of premiums paid for small tax-exempt employers.
- To be eligible for the credit, you must pay premiums on behalf of employees enrolled in a qualified health plan offered through a Small Business Health Options Program Marketplace, or qualify for an exception to this requirement.
- The credit is available to eligible employers for two consecutive taxable years beginning in 2014 or later. You may be able to amend prior year tax returns to claim the credit for tax years 2010 through 2013 in addition to claiming this credit for those two consecutive years.
- You can carry the credit back or forward to other tax years if you do not owe tax during the year.
- You may get both a credit and a deduction for employee premium payments. Since the amount of your health insurance premium payments will be more than the total credit, if you are eligible, you can still claim a business expense deduction for the premiums in excess of the credit.
For information about insurance plans offered through the SHOP Marketplace, visit Healthcare.gov.
Obamacare Health Insurance Premium Tax Credit
Small businesses that offer health insurance may apply for a tax credit.
The full credit is available to firms with 10 or fewer full-time-equivalent employees
with average wages of $25,900 or less. The credit is phased out for businesses
with more than 10 employees and with higher wages. Phase out reaches maximum
for businesses with more than 25 workers or average wages in over $51,800.