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                                                                                                  Department of the Treasury
Instructions for Form 5735                                                                        Internal Revenue Service

(Rev. January 2013)
American Samoa Economic Development Credit

Section references are to the Internal Revenue Code unless          Alternative Minimum Tax
otherwise noted.                                                    Income eligible for the American Samoa economic development 
                                                                    credit is not taxed under the alternative minimum tax rules. See 
What's New
                                                                    Form 4626, Alternative Minimum Tax—Corporations.
Section 330 of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 has 
modified and expanded the American Samoa economic                   Source of Gross Income, etc.
development credit for tax years beginning after December 31, 
2011. This revision reflects those changes. For information on      See sections 638, 861-864, and 936 to determine if the source 
the credit for tax years beginning before January 1, 2012, see      of gross income, deductions, and taxable income is in or outside 
the March 2007 revision of Form 5735 and the separate               American Samoa. Amounts received in American Samoa may 
instructions.                                                       be considered sourced outside American Samoa if they are from 
                                                                    sources outside American Samoa and received from an 
                                                                    unrelated person in the active conduct of a trade or business. 
General Instructions                                                See section 936(b).

Purpose of Form                                                     Qualified Production
Form 5735 is used to figure the American Samoa economic             Activities Income (QPAI)
development credit under section 30A. The credit is generally       Note.   For tax years beginning in 2012, the corporation does not 
allowed against income tax imposed by Chapter 1 (see                report its QPAI on Form 5735. However, the corporation must 
Restrictions below for exceptions).                                 have positive QPAI in order to qualify for the American Samoa 
                                                                    economic development credit. For tax years beginning in 2012, 
Who Must File                                                       corporations should calculate their QPAI and keep it for their 
A domestic corporation (other than an S corporation) must           records in order to prove to the IRS (in the case of an audit) that 
complete Form 5735 for each year the American Samoa                 they qualify for the credit.
economic development credit election is in effect.                  Figuring QPAI. QPAI is the excess (if any) of:
Where To File                                                       1.      Domestic production gross receipts (DPGR), over
Attach Form 5735 to the corporation's income tax return and file    2.      The sum of:
the return with the Internal Revenue Service, P.O. Box 409101,      a.      Cost of goods sold allocable to DPGR, and
Ogden, UT 84409.                                                    b.      Other expenses, losses, or deductions which are properly 
                                                                    allocable to DPGR.
Qualifying for the Credit
To qualify for the American Samoa economic development              Oil-related qualified production activities income. 
credit, a corporation must meet the qualified production activities Oil-related qualified production activities income is QPAI 
income (QPAI) requirement. A corporation meets this                 attributable to the production, refining, processing, 
requirement if it has qualified production activities income        transportation, or distribution of oil or gas, or any primary product 
(defined below).                                                    from oil or gas (section 927(a)(2)(C), as in effect before its 
        The corporation does not qualify for the American           repeal).
                                                                    Primary products from oil.    Primary products from oil are 
!       Samoa economic development credit unless it has a           crude oil and all products derived from the destructive distillation 
CAUTION positive QPAI.
                                                                    of crude oil, including volatile products, light oils such as motor 
                                                                    fuel and kerosene, distillates such as naphtha, lubricating oils, 
Restrictions                                                        greases and waxes, and residues such as fuel oil.
The credit is not allowed against the following taxes:              A product or commodity derived from shale oil, which would 
1. Tax on accumulated earnings (section 531).                       be a primary product from oil if derived from crude oil, is 
2. Personal holding company tax (section 541).                      considered a primary product from oil.
3. Additional tax for recovery of foreign expropriation losses      Primary products from gas.    Primary products from gas are 
(section 1351).                                                     all gas and associated hydrocarbon components from gas or oil 
                                                                    wells, whether recovered at the lease or upon further 
4. Recapture of investment credit (section 50).                     processing, including natural gas, condensates, liquefied 
5. Recapture of low-income housing credit                           petroleum gases such as ethane, propane, and butane, and 
(section 42(j)(4)(D)).                                              liquid products such as natural gasoline.
6. Recapture of Indian employment credit                            See Temporary Regulations section 1.927(a)-1T(g)(2) for 
(section 45A).                                                      additional information.

IC-DISC or FSC                                                      Domestic Production Gross Receipts (DPGR)
A corporation cannot take the American Samoa economic               Generally, your gross receipts (defined later) derived from the 
development credit for any tax year it is an IC-DISC or former      following activities are DPGR.
IC-DISC, or for any tax year in which it owns stock in an IC-DISC   1.      Construction of real property you perform in American 
or FSC, or former IC-DISC or former FSC (section 936(f)).           Samoa in your construction trade or business.

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2. Engineering or architectural services you perform in              than natural gas), chemical, and similar property, such as steam, 
American Samoa in your engineering or architectural services         oxygen, hydrogen, or nitrogen.
trade or business for the construction of real property in           Machinery, printing presses, transportation and office 
American Samoa.                                                      equipment, refrigerators, grocery counters, testing equipment, 
3. Any lease, rental, license, sale, exchange, or other              display racks and shelves, and neon and other signs that are 
disposition of the following.                                        contained in or attached to a building constitute tangible 
a. Qualifying production property you manufacture, produce,          personal property.
grow or extract in whole or in significant part in American 
Samoa. See Qualifying Production Property and Manufacturing,         Note. Local law does not control whether property is tangible 
Producing, Growing, or Extracting, below, for details.               personal property.
b. Any qualified film you produce.                                   See Regulations section 1.199-3(j)(2) for more information.
c. Electricity, natural gas, or potable water you produce in         Computer software. In general, computer software includes 
American Samoa.                                                      the following:
                                                                     Any program, routine, or sequence of machine-readable code 
In general, gross receipts derived from the following activities     that is designed to cause a computer to perform a desired 
are not DPGR.                                                        function or set of functions, and the documentation required to 
Activities not attributable to the actual conduct of a trade or      describe or maintain that program or routine. An electronic book 
business.                                                            online or for download does not constitute computer software.
The sale of food and beverages you prepare at a retail               Machine-readable code for (a) video games or similar 
establishment.                                                       programs, (b) equipment that is an integral part of other property, 
The lease, rental, or license of property between certain            and (c) typewriters, calculators, adding and accounting 
persons treated as a single employer.                                machines, copiers, duplicating equipment, and similar 
The lease, rental, license, sale, exchange, or other disposition     equipment, even if the program is not designed to operate on a 
of land.                                                             computer as defined in section 168(i)(2)(B).
The transmission or distribution of electricity, natural gas, or     Computer programs including, but not limited to, operating 
potable water.                                                       systems, executive systems, monitors, compilers and 
Advertising and product-placement; however, see                      translators, assembly routines, utility programs, and application 
Regulations section 1.199-3(i)(5)(ii) for exceptions.                programs.
Customer and technical support, telephone and other                  Any incidental and ancillary rights that are necessary for the 
telecommunications services, online services (including Internet     acquisition of the title to, the ownership of, or the right to use 
access services, online banking services, providing access to        computer software, and that are used only in connection with 
online electronic books, newspapers, and journals) and other         that specific software. These incidental and ancillary rights are 
similar services; however, see Regulations section 1.199-3(i)(6)     not included in the definition of a trademark or trade name under 
(iii) for exceptions.                                                Regulations section 1.197-2(b)(10)(i).
Gross receipts. Gross receipts include the following amounts         Exception.    Computer software does not include any data or 
from your trade or business activities.                              information base unless the data or information base is in the 
Total sales (net of returns and allowances).                         public domain and is incidental to a computer program.
Amounts received for services, not including wages received          Example.      If a word processing program includes a dictionary 
as an employee.                                                      feature that may be used to spell-check a document, then the 
Income from incidental or outside sources (including sales of        entire program (including the dictionary feature) is a computer 
business property).                                                  software program regardless of the form in which the dictionary 
                                                                     feature is maintained or stored.
Gross receipts are generally not reduced by the:
Cost of goods sold, or                                               See Regulations section 1.199-3(j)(3) for more information.
Adjusted basis of property (other than capital assets) sold or       Sound Recordings. Sound recordings include any works that 
otherwise disposed of, if such property is described in section      result from the fixation of a series of musical, spoken, or other 
1221(a)(1) through (5).                                              sounds. The definition of sound recordings is limited to the 
                                                                     master copy of the recordings (or other copy from which the 
Allocation of gross receipts. You generally must allocate your       holder is licensed to make and produce copies), and if the 
gross receipts between DPGR and non-DPGR. Allocate gross             medium (such as compact discs, tapes, or other 
receipts using a reasonable method that accurately identifies        phonorecordings) in which the sounds may be embodied is 
gross receipts that are DPGR. However, if less than 5% of your       tangible, then the medium is considered tangible personal 
gross receipts are non-DPGR, you can treat all of your gross         property.
receipts as DPGR. Also, if less than 5% of your gross receipts 
are DPGR, you can treat all of your gross receipts as non-DPGR.      Exception.    Sound recordings do not include the creation of 
                                                                     copy-righted material in a form other than a sound recording, 
For details, see Regulations section 1.199-1(d).                     such as lyrics or music composition.
                                                                     See Regulations section 1.199-3(j)(4) for more information.
Qualifying Production Property
                                                                     Qualified film. A qualified film is any motion picture film, video 
The following are qualifying production property.                    tape, or live or delayed television programming, for which 50% 
Tangible personal property.                                          or more of the total compensation required to produce the film is 
Computer software.                                                   paid for services performed by actors, production personnel, 
Sound recordings.                                                    directors, and producers in American Samoa.
Tangible personal property.   Tangible personal property             A qualified film includes the copyrights, trademarks, or other 
includes any tangible property other than land, buildings            intangibles related to the film. Also, QPAI includes gross receipts 
(including structural components), computer software, sound          from the production of a qualified film regardless of the methods 
recordings, qualified films, electricity, natural gas, or potable    and means by which the film is distributed.
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See section 199(c)(6) and Regulations section 1.199-3(k) for          You are engaged in the trade or business of farming and are 
more information.                                                     not required to use the accrual method of accounting (see 
                                                                      section 447).
Manufacturing, Producing, Growing, or Extracting                      Your average annual gross receipts (defined below) are $5 
                                                                      million or less.
Manufacturing, producing, growing, and extracting (MPGE)              You are eligible to use the cash method of accounting under 
generally include the following trade or business activities.         Rev. Proc. 2002-28. You can find Rev. Proc. 2002-28 on 
Activities related to manufacturing, producing, growing,              page 815 of I.R.B. 2002-18 at www.irs.gov/pub/irs-irbs/
extracting, installing, developing, improving, and creating           irb02-18.pdf.
qualifying production property.
Making qualifying production property out of scrap, salvage,          Under the small business simplified overall method, your total 
or junk material, or from new or raw material by processing,          cost of goods sold and other deductions, expenses, and losses 
manipulating, refining, or changing the form of an article, or by     are ratably apportioned between DPGR and non-DPGR based 
combining or assembling two or more articles.                         on relative gross receipts.
Cultivating soil, raising livestock, fishing, and mining minerals.
                                                                      Example.        Your total cost of goods sold and other trade or 
Storage, handling, or other processing activities (other than         business deductions, expenses, or losses are $400 and do not 
transportation activities) in American Samoa related to the sale,     include a net operating loss deduction. You have $1,000 total 
exchange, or other disposition of agricultural products, provided     gross receipts and $750 DPGR. Your DPGR equal 75% of your 
the products are consumed in connection with, or incorporated         total gross receipts. Under the small business simplified overall 
into, manufacturing, producing, growing, or extracting qualifying     method, you subtract $300 ($400 × .75) of your total cost of 
production property whether or not by the taxpayer.                   goods sold and other trade or business deductions, expenses, 
For details, see Regulations section 1.199-3(e).                      or losses from your DPGR to figure your QPAI, which is $450 
                                                                      ($750 minus $300).
Cost of Goods Sold                                                    Average annual gross receipts. For this purpose, your 
Cost of goods sold is a component of QPAI and it includes the:        average annual gross receipts are your average annual gross 
Cost of goods sold to customers, and                                  receipts for the preceding 3 tax years. If your business has not 
Adjusted basis of non-inventory property you sold or                  been in existence for 3 tax years, base your average on the 
otherwise disposed of in your trade or business.                      period it has existed. Include any short tax years by annualizing 
                                                                      the short tax year's gross receipts by (a) multiplying the gross 
Allocation of cost of goods sold. Generally, you must                 receipts for the short period by 12 and (b) dividing the result by 
allocate your cost of goods sold between DPGR and non-DPGR            the number of months in the short period.
using a reasonable method. If you use a method to allocate 
gross receipts between DPGR and non-DPGR, the use of a                Oil-related production activities. If you have oil-related 
different method to allocate cost of goods sold will not be           qualified production activities income and you choose to use the 
considered reasonable, unless it is more accurate. However, if        small business simplified overall method, you must allocate part 
you qualify to use the small business simplified overall method,      of these costs to DPGR from oil-related production activities to 
you can use it to apportion both cost of goods sold and other         determine oil-related QPAI.
deductions, expenses, and losses between DPGR and 
non-DPGR.                                                             Simplified Deduction Method
For details, see Regulations section 1.199-4.                         You generally can use the simplified deduction method to 
Form W-2 wages.   To determine the amount of Form W-2                 apportion other deductions, expenses, and losses (but not cost 
wages to include in cost of goods sold, see Wage expense              of goods sold) between DPGR and non-DPGR if you meet either 
included in cost of goods sold, later.                                of the following tests.
                                                                      Your total trade or business assets at the end of your tax year 
Other Deductions, Expenses, or Losses                                 are $10 million or less.
Other deductions, expenses, or losses include all deductions,         Your average annual gross receipts (defined above) are $100 
expenses, or losses (other than cost of goods sold and                million or less.
employee business expenses) from a trade or business.                 Under the simplified deduction method, your other trade or 
Allocation and apportionment of other deductions, expen-              business deductions, expenses, or losses are ratably 
ses, or losses. You can generally use one of the following            apportioned between DPGR and non-DPGR based on relative 
three methods to allocate and apportion other trade or business       gross receipts.
deductions, expenses, or losses between DPGR and                      Example.        Your total other trade or business deductions, 
non-DPGR.                                                             expenses, or losses are $400 and do not include a net operating 
Small business simplified overall method.                             loss. You have $240 of cost of goods sold allocable to DPGR. 
Simplified deduction method.                                          You have $1,000 total gross receipts and $600 DPGR. Your 
Section 861 method.                                                   DPGR equal 60% of your total gross receipts. Under the 
However, do not allocate and apportion a net operating loss           simplified deduction method, you subtract $240 ($400 × .60) of 
deduction or deductions not attributable to the conduct of a trade    your total other trade or business deductions, expenses, or 
or business to DPGR under any of the methods.                         losses from your DPGR to figure your QPAI, which is $120 ($600 
                                                                      minus $240 minus $240).
Small Business Simplified Overall Method                              Oil-related production activities. If you have oil-related 
You generally can use the small business simplified overall           qualified production activities income and you choose to use the 
method to apportion cost of goods sold and other deductions,          simplified deduction method, you must allocate part of these 
expenses, and losses between DPGR and non-DPGR if you                 costs to DPGR from oil-related production activities to determine 
meet any of the following tests.                                      oil-related QPAI.

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Section 861 Method                                                    b. Supplemental unemployment compensation benefits.
You do not have to meet any tests to use the section 861              c. Sick pay or annuity payments from which the recipient 
method. Under the section 861 method, you generally must              requested federal income tax withholding.
apply the rules of the section 861 regulations to allocate and        3. Subtract (2) from (1).
apportion other trade or business deductions, expenses, or            4. Add together any amounts reported in box 12 of the 
losses between DPGR and non-DPGR. Section 199 is treated              relevant Forms W-2 that are properly coded D, E, F, G, or S.
as an “operative section” described in Regulations section 
1.861-8(f).                                                           5. Add (3) and (4).
                                                                      Tracking wages method.     Under the tracking wages method, 
For details, see Regulations section 1.199-4(d).                      Form W-2 wages are figured as follows.
For guidance on automatic approval to change certain                  1. Add the amounts reported in box 1 of the relevant Forms 
elections relating to the apportionment of interest expense and       W-2 that are also wages for federal income tax withholding 
research and experimentation expenditures, see Rev. Proc.             purposes.
2006-42. You can find Rev. Proc. 2006-42 on page 931 of I.R.B.        2. Add any amounts reported in box 1 of the relevant Forms 
2006-47 at www.irs.gov/pub/irs-irbs/irb06-47.pdf.                     W-2 that are both:
Oil-related production activities. If you have oil-related            a. Wages for federal income tax withholding purposes, and
qualified production activities income, apply the rules of section    b. Supplemental unemployment compensation benefits.
861 to determine the amount of other trade or business                3. Subtract (2) from (1).
deductions, expenses, or losses to deduct for purposes of 
determining oil-related QPAI.                                         4. Add together any amounts reported in box 12 of the 
                                                                      relevant Forms W-2 that are properly coded D, E, F, G, or S.
Figuring Form W-2 Wages                                               5. Add (3) and (4).
You figure Form W-2 wages in two steps. First, you must               Form W-2 wages paid to produce a qualified film.       Form W-2 
determine the amount of wages to classify as Form W-2 wages           wages include compensation for services performed in 
under Regulations section 1.199-2(e)(1). Second, you must             American Samoa by actors, production personnel, directors, and 
figure Form W-2 wages that are properly allocable to DPGR.            producers to produce a qualified film. See Qualified film, earlier, 
You can figure Form W-2 wages that are properly allocable to          for more information.
DPGR using one of the safe harbor methods discussed under 
Form W-2 Wages Allocable to DPGR, below. Also, you can use            Form W-2 Wages
any reasonable method based on all the facts and                      Allocable to DPGR
circumstances.
                                                                      After you calculate Form W-2 wages, as discussed above, you 
You can use one of the following three methods to determine           must figure Form W-2 wages that are properly allocable to 
the amount of wages to classify as Form W-2 wages under               DPGR.
Regulations section 1.199-2(e)(1).
Unmodified box method.                                                You can figure Form W-2 wages that are properly allocable to 
Modified box 1 method.                                                DPGR under one of the following methods.
Tracking wages method.                                                Small business simplified overall method safe harbor.
                                                                      Wage expense safe harbor.
Relevant Forms W-2.   To figure your Form W-2 wages,                  Any other reasonable method based on all the facts and 
generally use the sum of the amounts you properly report for          circumstances.
each employee on Form W-2, Wage and Tax Statement, for the 
calendar year ending with or within your tax year. However, do        Small business simplified overall method safe harbor.       If 
not use any amounts reported on a Form W-2 filed with the             you use the small business simplified overall method to allocate 
Social Security Administration more than 60 days after its due        costs between DPGR and non-DPGR (see Small Business 
date (including extensions).                                          Simplified Overall Method, earlier), you can use the small 
                                                                      business simplified overall method safe harbor to determine the 
Non-duplication rule. Amounts that are treated as Form W-2            amount of Form W-2 wages allocable to DPGR. Under this safe 
wages for a tax year under any method cannot be treated as            harbor method, the amount of Form W-2 wages that is properly 
Form W-2 wages for any other tax year. Also, an amount cannot         allocable to DPGR equals the proportion of DPGR to total gross 
be treated as Form W-2 wages by more than one taxpayer.               receipts.
Unmodified box method. Under the unmodified box method,               Wage expense safe harbor.  If you are using either the section 
Form W-2 wages are the smaller of:                                    861 method of cost allocation under Regulations section 
1.   The sum of the amounts reported in box 1 of the relevant         1.199-4(d) or the simplified deduction method under Regulations 
Forms W-2, or                                                         section 1.199-4(e), you determine the amount of wages properly 
2.   The sum of the amounts reported in box 5 of the relevant         allocable to DPGR by multiplying the amount of wages for the 
Forms W-2.                                                            tax year by the ratio of your wage expense included in 
                                                                      calculating QPAI for the tax year to your total wage expense 
Modified box 1 method. Under the modified box 1 method,               used in calculating your taxable income (or adjusted gross 
Form W-2 wages are figured as follows.                                income) for the tax year without regard to any wage expenses 
1.   Add the amounts reported in box 1 of the relevant Forms          disallowed by sections 465, 469, 704(d), or 1366(d).
W-2.                                                                  If you use the section 861 method or the simplified deduction 
2.   Add all the amounts described below and included in              method, you must use the same expense allocation and 
box 1 of the relevant Forms W-2.                                      apportionment methods that you use to determine QPAI to 
                                                                      allocate and apportion wage expense for purposes of the safe 
a.   Amounts not considered wages for federal income tax              harbor.
withholding purposes.

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Wage expense included in cost of goods sold.       After you              The amount of allocable employee fringe benefit expenses 
determine the amount of wages under the wage expense safe                 for a tax year is equal to the total amount of employee fringe 
harbor, discussed earlier, you can allocate a portion of those            benefit expenses (defined above) multiplied by a fraction. The 
wages to cost of goods sold by any reasonable method based                fraction consists of the corporation's qualified wages (defined 
on the facts and circumstances. For example, you can include              above) for the tax year, divided by the aggregate amount of 
wage expense in cost of goods sold in proportion to (a) the               wages paid or incurred by the corporation during the tax year.
amount of direct labor included in cost of goods sold, or (b)             The allocable employee fringe benefit expenses cannot 
section 263A labor costs (as defined in Regulations section               exceed 15% of the corporation's qualified wages for the tax year.
1.263A-1(h) (4)(ii)) included in cost of goods sold. See 
Regulations section 1.199-2(e)(2)(ii)(B) for more information.            For more information, see section 936(i)(2).

More information. For more information on figuring your Form              Lines 2–4
W-2 wages, see Regulations section 1.199-2 and Rev. Proc.                 Qualified tangible property means any tangible property used 
2006-47. You can find Rev. Proc. 2006-47 on page 869 of I.R.B.            by the corporation in the active conduct of a trade or business 
2006-45 at www.irs.gov/pub/irs-irbs/irb06-45.pdf.                         within American Samoa.
For more information on figuring Form W-2 wages properly 
allocable to DPGR, see Regulations section 1.199-2(e)(2).                 Short-life qualified tangible property is qualified tangible 
                                                                          property that is 3-year or 5-year property under section 168.
Specific Instructions                                                     Medium-life qualified tangible property is qualified tangible 
                                                                          property that is 7-year or 10-year property under section 168.
Note. Any wages or other expenses taken into account in 
determining the American Samoa economic development credit                Long-life qualified tangible property is qualified tangible 
may not be taken into account in determining the research credit          property that is not short-life or medium-life qualified tangible 
under section 41.                                                         property.
                                                                          For more information, see section 936(i)(4).
Line 1
Enter 60% of the sum of:                                                  Note. In the case of any qualified tangible property to which 
The aggregate amount of the corporation's qualified wages for             section 168 (as in effect before the date of enactment of the Tax 
the tax year and                                                          Reform Act of 1986) applies, any references above to section 
The allocable employee fringe benefit expenses of the                     168 are to that Code section as then in effect.
corporation for the tax year.
                                                                          For more information on depreciation, see the Instructions for 
Qualified wages.  Qualified wages are wages paid or incurred              Form 4562 and Publication 946.
by the corporation during the tax year in connection with the 
active conduct of a trade or business in American Samoa to an             Line 7
employee for services performed in American Samoa, but only if            Include the line 7 credit on your income tax return on the same 
the services are performed while the employee's principal place           line on which the qualified electric vehicle (QEV) credit is 
of employment is in American Samoa.                                       reported. Enter “Form 5735” and the amount next to the entry 
The term “wages” generally means wages as defined in                      space for that line. On the 2012 Form 1120, the QEV is reported 
section 3306(b), but without regard to any dollar limitation              on Schedule J, line 5b. The credit must also be included on the 
contained in that section. For this purpose, section 3306(b) is           QEV line of the following forms as applicable: Form 3800, Form 
applied as if the term “United States” includes American Samoa.           6478, Form 8835, Form 8860, Form 8910, Form 8911, and Form 
See section 936(i)(1)(D)(ii) for a special rule for agricultural labor    8912.
and railway labor.
The wages that are taken into account for the tax year for any            Paperwork Reduction Act Notice.      We ask for the information 
employee are limited to 85% of the old-age, survivors, and                on this form to carry out the Internal Revenue laws of the United 
disability insurance (OASDI) contribution and benefit base for            States. You are required to give us the information. We need it to 
the calendar year in which that tax year begins. The OASDI                ensure that you are complying with these laws and to allow us to 
contribution and benefit base for 2012 is $110,100 and for 2013           figure and collect the right amount of tax.
is $113,700.
                                                                          You are not required to provide the information requested on 
Special rules apply to part-time employees and employees                  a form that is subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act unless the 
whose principal place of employment with the corporation is not           form displays a valid OMB control number. Books or records 
within American Samoa at all times during the tax year.                   relating to a form or its instructions must be retained as long as 
For more information, see section 936(i)(1).                              their contents may become material in the administration of any 
                                                                          Internal Revenue law. Generally, tax returns are confidential, as 
Allocable employee fringe benefit expenses.        The total              required by section 6103.
amount of employee fringe benefit expenses taken into account 
in figuring the economic-activity limitation is the amount                The time needed to complete and file this form will vary 
deductible by the corporation in the tax year for:                        depending on individual circumstances. The estimated average 
Employer contributions to stock bonus, pensions,                          time is: Recordkeeping, 7 hr., 53 min.; Learning about the 
profit-sharing, or annuity plans,                                         law or the form, 2 hr., 17 min.; and Preparing, copying, 
Employer-provided health or accident plan coverage for the                assembling, and sending the form to the IRS, 2 hr., 32 min.
employees, and
The cost of life or disability insurance provided to employees.           If you have comments concerning the accuracy of these time 
                                                                          estimates or suggestions for making this form simpler, we would 
Note. Any amount treated as qualified wages may not be                    be happy to hear from you. See the instructions for the tax return 
treated as an employee fringe benefit expense.                            with which this form is filed.

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