Four Rules for Claiming Extra Credits After Building’s Applicable Fraction Increases

Sometimes tax credit site owners aren’t entitled to claim all the credits they were allocated for a building. This happens when owners don’t lease up as many units to qualified low-income households as they must in the first year of the building’s compliance period. As a result, the building’s first-year “fraction,” which reflects the percentage of the building that’s leased to qualified low-income households, falls short of the target.