8932
OMB No. 1545-2126
Credit for Employer Differential Wage Payments
Form
(Rev. December 2012)
Attach to your tax return.
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Department of the Treasury
Attachment
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Information about Form 8932 and its instructions is at
Sequence No.
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Internal Revenue Service
Name(s) shown on return
Identifying number
Eligible differential wage payments paid during the tax year (see instructions)
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Multiply line 1 by 20% (.20) (see instructions for the adjustment you must make)
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Credit for employer differential wage payments from partnerships, S corporations, cooperatives,
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estates, and trusts (see instructions) .
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Add lines 2 and 3. Cooperatives, estates, and trusts, go to line 5. Partnerships and S corporations,
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report this amount on Schedule K. All others, report this amount on Form 3800, line 1w .
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Amount allocated to patrons of the cooperative or beneficiaries of the estate or trust
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Cooperatives, estates, and trusts, subtract line 5 from line 4. Report this amount on Form 3800,
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General Instructions
Differential Wage Payment
To be considered a differential wage payment, the
Section references are to the Internal Revenue Code.
payment must be paid after 2008 and before 2014 and
What's New
meet both of the following requirements.
• The payment is made by an eligible small business
The credit has been extended to cover eligible differential
employer to a qualified employee for any period during
wage payments made in 2012 and 2013.
which the employee is performing service in the
Purpose of Form
uniformed services of the United States while on active
duty for a period of more than 30 days.
An eligible small business employer (defined below) can
• The payment represents all or a portion of the wages
use Form 8932 to claim the credit for employer differential
the employee would have received from the employer if
wage payments. Only eligible differential wage payments
the employee were performing services for the employer.
made to qualified employees after 2008 and before 2014
can be used to figure the credit. The credit is 20% of up
Eligible Small Business Employer
to $20,000 of differential wage payments paid to each
An eligible small business employer means any taxpayer
qualified employee during the tax year.
that:
The credit for employer differential wage payments is
• Employed on average fewer than 50 employees on
part of the general business credit reported on Form
business days during the tax year, and
3800, General Business Credit.
• Under a written plan of the employer, provides eligible
Taxpayers (other than partnerships, S corporations,
differential wage payments to every qualified employee of
cooperatives, estates, and trusts) whose only source of
the employer.
this credit is from those pass-through entities are not
For purposes of this definition, all persons treated as a
required to complete or file this form. Instead, report this
single employer under subsection (b), (c), (m), or (o) of
credit directly on Form 3800.
section 414 are treated as a single employer.
For details, see section 45P and Notice 2010-15,
Uniformed Services
2010-6 I.R.B. 390, available at
Uniformed services means the Armed Forces; the Army
National Guard and the Air National Guard when engaged
Definitions
in active duty for training, inactive duty training, or full-
Eligible Differential Wage Payments
time National Guard duty; the commissioned corps of the
Public Health Service; and any other category of persons
Eligible differential wage payments are the total
designated by the President in time of war or national
differential wage payments paid to the employee for the
emergency.
tax year, up to $20,000.
Coordination With Other Credits
Qualified Employee
A qualified employee is an employee of an eligible small
The amount of any research credit or orphan drug credit
business employer for the 91-day period immediately
otherwise allowable for compensation paid to any
preceding the period for which any differential wage
employee is reduced by the credit for differential wage
payment is made.
payments figured for that employee.
8932
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Form
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