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                                              Publication OR-FIA                                           2023
                            Oregon Farm Income Averaging Instructions for Schedules 
                            OR-FIA-40, OR-FIA-40-N, OR-FIA-40-P, and OR-FIA-COMP

                                                                 Oregon’s highest personal income tax rate, 9.9 percent,  
General information                                              applies to taxable income that is more than $125,000 if your 
                                                                 filing status is Single or Married filing separately, or $250,000 
Purpose. These schedules are used to determine Oregon            for any other filing status.
personal income tax using farm income averaging (FIA). You 
may elect to figure your 2023 Oregon personal income tax         Note: FIA can’t be used with the qualified business income 
by averaging some or all of this year’s taxable farm income      reduced tax rate (ORS 316.043).
over the previous three tax years, also called “base years.” 
This election may reduce your tax if:
                                                                 Requirements for FIA
• Your income from farming is greater this year than it was 
in the prior three years; and                                    Farming business
• Your taxable income for one or more of the base years was 
within a lower tax bracket compared to this year.                Your farm income must be from a farming business. A farm-
                                                                 ing business is the trade or business of cultivating land or 
You don’t need to have income from farming for any of the        harvesting any agricultural or horticultural commodity. This 
base years to use FIA. If you didn’t file an Oregon return for   includes:
one or more of the base years, see “No Oregon return filed 
for base year” on page 3.                                        • Operating a nursery or sod farm.
                                                                 • Raising or harvesting of trees bearing fruits, nuts, or other 
Tax brackets for the three base years. Compare your taxable      crops.
income to the three lower tax brackets for the base years.       • Raising ornamental trees (but not evergreen trees that are 
If your taxable income for a base year was within a lower        more than six years old when severed from their roots).
bracket compared to this year, you may benefit from using        • Raising, shearing, feeding, caring for, training, and manag-
FIA.                                                             ing animals.
                                                                 • Leasing land to a tenant engaged in a farming business, 
4.75% bracket 2020                     2021      2022            but only if the lease payments are based on a share of the 
                                                                 tenant’s farm production (not a fixed amount).
             Single or married filing separately                 • Wages and other compensation you received as a share-
Not over      $3,600                  $3,650     $3,750          holder in an S corporation engaged in a farming business.
                            All others                           A farming business doesn’t include:
Not over      $7,200                  $7,300     $7,500
                                                                 • Contract harvesting of an agricultural or horticultural 
                                                                 commodity grown or raised by someone else.
                                                                 • Merely buying or reselling plants or animals grown or 
6.75% bracket 2020                     2021      2022
                                                                 raised by someone else.
                                                                 • Income from a fishing business, even if the income is 
             Single or married filing separately
                                                                 allowed for averaging farm income on your federal return.
Over          $3,600                  $3,650     $3,750
But not over  $9,050                  $9,200     $9,450          Elected farm income
                            All others
                                                                 Your elected farm income is the amount of your taxable 
Over          $7,200                  $7,300     $7,500          income from a farming business that you elect to use for FIA. 
But not over  $18,100                 $18,400    $18,900         If you’re electing to use FIA on your federal return, your 
                                                                 elected farm income can be found on federal Schedule J,  
                                                                 line 2a. 
8.75% bracket 2020                     2021      2022
                                                                 Note: Oregon doesn’t allow FIA for income from a fishing 
             Single or married filing separately                 business. Don’t include income from a fishing business in 
                                                                 your elected farm income even if it is allowed for federal 
Over          $9,050                  $9,200     $9,450
                                                                 purposes.
But not over  $125,000        $125,000           $125,000
                            All others                           Taxable income from farming. To figure your elected farm 
Over          $18,100                 $18,400    $18,900         income, first figure your taxable income from farming. Tax-
                                                                 able income from farming includes all income, gains, losses, 
But not over  $250,000        $250,000           $250,000
                                                                 and deductions attributable to any farming business, other 
                                                                 than gain from the sale or other disposition of land. Gains 
                                                                 and losses from the sale or other disposition of property 
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(other than land) must be from property regularly used for a       • Tax tables or rate charts from the return instructions for tax 
substantial period of time in your farming business.               years 2020, 2021, and 2022. You can download the return 
• You don’t have to include all of your taxable income from        instructions from our website or contact us to request them. 
farming in your elected farm income.                               Credits. If you had credits that were limited to your tax 
• Your elected farm income can’t be more than your Oregon          liability or were prorated for any base year, other than 
taxable income.                                                    the personal exemption credit, and the amount you could 
Net capital gain. If your elected farm income includes net         claim against your recomputed tax would be more than the 
capital gain, you must allocate an equal portion of the net        amount claimed on your base-year return, you may decrease 
capital gain to each of the base years. The portion of your        the recomputed tax by the additional credit. However, 
elected farm income treated as a net capital gain can’t be         because any additional credit will be used in the calculation 
more than the smaller of:                                          of this year’s tax, you will also need to decrease any credit 
                                                                   amount carried forward from a base year to any subsequent 
• Your total net capital gain, or
                                                                   tax year.
• Your net capital gain attributable to your farming business.
Capital loss. If you had a capital loss for any base year that     No Oregon return filed for a base year
resulted in a capital loss carryover to the next tax year, don’t 
                                                                   Resident with no federal income. If you were an Oregon 
reduce the elected farm income allocated to that base year 
                                                                   resident but you didn’t file an Oregon return for a base year 
by any part of the carryover.
                                                                   because you had no federal income, or because your income 
Net operating loss (NOL). If you had an NOL or carried an          was below the threshold for filing an Oregon return, use zero 
NOL deduction (NOLD) to a base year, you may have to do            for your taxable income for that base year. 
some additional calculations. See “Negative taxable income 
for base year” at the end of this publication.                     Nonresident with federal income but no Oregon-source 
                                                                   income. If you were a nonresident for the entire year and 
                                                                   you had no income from Oregon sources (or if you were a 
What you’ll need for FIA                                           part-year Oregon resident but you didn’t receive any income 
                                                                   during the time when you were a resident), your Oregon 
To average your farm income, you will need:
                                                                   income for the base year is zero. Your federal income will be 
• Schedule OR-FIA for this year’s return type (full-year,          your adjusted gross income (AGI) from your federal return 
part-year, or nonresident).                                        for the base year.  
• Schedule OR-FIA-COMP if you’re filing a part-year or 
                                                                   Nonresident or part-year resident with federal income but 
nonresident return this year or if you’ve filed a part-year 
or nonresident return in one or more of the base years.            no Oregon filing requirement. If you were a nonresident or 
• Copies of your original or amended Oregon personal               a part-year resident for a base year and your Oregon-source 
income tax returns for tax years 2020, 2021, and 2022 (base        income was below the threshold for filing an Oregon return, 
years). If we adjusted any of your returns for the base            your Oregon income for the base year is your income from 
years, use the taxable income and tax from our adjust-             Oregon sources that you would have reported if you had 
ment. To request copies of past returns (for a small fee)          filed an Oregon return. When you complete Schedule OR-
or free transcripts, log in to your Revenue Online account         FIA-COMP, see the return instructions for that base year for 
at www.oregon.gov/dor or make your request by mail,                deductions or other modifications you could have claimed 
email, or phone.                                                   if you had filed a return.
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Instructions for Schedules OR-FIA-40, OR-FIA-40-P, and OR-FIA-40-N 
                                                                   instructions for finding the averaged income to enter on 
Full-year filers—OR-FIA-40                                         lines 5, 9, and 13. 
                                                                   • If you had no Oregon-source income for any base year, 
Tax on 2023 income without elected farm income                     enter $0 as your taxable income for that base year.
                                                                   • Otherwise, enter your taxable income for each base year. 
Lines 1 through 4. Subtract your 2023 elected farm income 
from your 2023 taxable income. Find the tax on your remain-        Note: If you had negative Oregon taxable income for any of 
ing taxable income using the tax tables or rate charts inside      the three base years, see “Negative taxable income for base 
your return instructions.                                          year” on page 9 for help completing lines 5, 9, and 13. 
                                                                   • Divide your 2023 elected farm income by 3 and enter the 
Tax on base years with 2023 elected farm income                    result on lines 6, 10, and 14.
Lines 5 through 17                                                 • Use the tax tables or rate charts in the instructions for the 
• If you used FIA or filed a part-year or nonresident return       2020, 2021, and 2022 returns to determine the tax for each 
for any base year, use the Schedule OR-FIA-COMP                    base year on the recomputed income on lines 7, 11, and 
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15 (or use the recomputed tax from Schedule OR-FIA-              Table 3: Tax for base year 2022
COMP). Enter the tax amounts on lines 8, 12, and 16.                                          Enter the amount from:
• Add lines 4 (the tax on this year’s income       without the 
                                                                 If you:
elected farm income), 8, 12, and 16 (the tax on recomputed                               Form or 
                                                                                                     For tax year   Line
                                                                                         schedule
income with the elected farm income for the three base 
years). Enter the total tax on line 17.                                                  OR-FIA-40                  4
                                                                 Used FIA to figure your 
                                                                                         OR-FIA-40-P  2022          8
Tax on base years without 2023 elected                           tax in 2022
farm income                                                                              OR-FIA-40-N                9
Lines 18 through 21. Use Tables 1, 2, and 3 to determine the                             OR-FIA-40                  20
amount of tax to enter for each base year on lines 18, 19, and   Didn’t use FIA in 2022, 
                                                                                         OR-FIA-40-P  2022          45
20. Enter the total tax on line 21. (Note: Your tax was $0 if    but used FIA in 2021
you didn’t file an Oregon return for that base year because                              OR-FIA-40-N                46
you were a nonresident without Oregon-source income or 
your Oregon-source income was below the filing threshold.)
                                                                 Tax on 2023 income
Table 1: Tax for base year 2020                                  Line 22. Subtract the total tax on line 21 (tax on income 
                            Enter the amount from:               for the base years without the 2023 elected farm income) 
                                                                 from the total tax on line 17 (tax on 2023 income  without   
If you:                     Form or                              the elected farm income plus the tax on the base years with 
                                      For tax year Line
                            schedule                                                            This is the tax on your 2023 
                                                                 the 2023 elected farm income). 
                            OR-FIA-40              12            income if you use FIA.
Used FIA to figure your                                          Line 23. Use the tax tables or rate charts from this year’s 
                         OR-FIA-40-P    2022       11
tax in 2022                                                      return instructions to find the tax on your 2023 income if 
                         OR-FIA-40-N               12            you don’t use FIA.
                            OR-FIA-40              16            Line 24. Compare the amount on line 22 to the amount on 
Didn’t use FIA in 2022,                                          23. Enter the smaller amount on line 24.
                         OR-FIA-40-P    2021       12
but used FIA in 2021
                         OR-FIA-40-N               13            • If the amount on line 24 equals the amount on line 23, 
                                                                 don’t use FIA. 
                            OR-FIA-40              4
Didn’t use FIA in 2022                                           • If the amount on line 24 equals the amount on line 22, 
or 2021, but used FIA in OR-FIA-40-P    2020       8             use FIA for 2023. Enter the amount from line 24 on Form 
2020                                                             OR-40, line 20. Be sure to check box 20a to indicate that you 
                         OR-FIA-40-N               9             used FIA to figure your tax. Keep Schedule OR-FIA-40 with 
                            OR-40                  20            your tax records.
Did none of the above       OR-40-P     2020       45            Example 1: Kelly, a single Oregon resident, has taxable 
                                                                 income of $40,000 and elected farm income of $24,000 this 
                            OR-40-N                46            year. Kelly didn’t use FIA for any base year. 
                                                                 Here are Kelly’s income and tax figures for the three base 
Table 2: Tax for base year 2021                                  years and this year before using FIA:
                            Enter the amount from:
If you:                     Form or                                       Item                  From              Amount
                                      For tax year Line
                            schedule
                                                                 2020 taxable income     2020 Form OR-40, line 19   $3,000
                            OR-FIA-40              16
                                                                 2020 tax                2020 Form OR-40, line 20   $145
Used FIA to figure your 
                         OR-FIA-40-P    2022       12
tax in 2022
                         OR-FIA-40-N               13            2021 taxable income     2021 Form OR-40, line 19   $7,200
                                                                 2021 tax                2021 Form OR-40, line 20   $416 
                            OR-FIA-40              4
Didn’t use FIA in 2022, 
                         OR-FIA-40-P    2021       8
but used FIA in 2021                                             2022 taxable income     2022 Form OR-40, line 19   $2,650
                         OR-FIA-40-N               9             2022 tax                2022 Form OR-40, line 20   $126
                            OR-40                  20
                                                                 2023 taxable income     2023 Form OR-40, line 19 $40,000
Did none of the above       OR-40-P     2021       45            2023 tax                (using 2023 tax tables)    $3,219
                            OR-40-N                46

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This is how Kelly completes Schedule OR-FIA-40:               Lines 5 through 8 
 1. 2023 taxable income.                        $40,000       • Subtract your deductions and modifications from the 
                                                              amount in the federal column on line 3a to get your 
 2. Elected farm income.                        $24,000
                                                              remaining taxable income on line 6. 
 3. Line 1 minus line 2.                        $16,000       • Use the tax rate charts inside your return instructions to 
 4. Tax on amount on line 3 using 2023 tax                    find the tax, then multiply the tax by your recomputed 
    table or chart.                             $1,119        Oregon percentage. 

                                                              Tax on base years with 2023 elected farm income
 5. 2020 taxable income.                        $3,000
                                                              Lines 9 through 13
 6. Line 2 divided by 3.                        $8,000
 7. Add lines 5 and 6.                          $11,000       • Divide your 2023 elected farm income by 3 and enter the 
                                                              result on line 9. This amount will be added to the income 
 8. Tax on amount on line 7 using 2020 tax 
                                                              for each base year on Schedule OR-FIA-COMP.
    table or chart.                             $714
                                                              • Use Schedule OR-FIA-COMP for recomputing the tax on 
                                                              the income for each base year with the elected farm income 
 9. 2021 taxable income.                        $7,200        added. Enter the results on lines 10 through 12. 
10. Amount from line 6.                         $8,000        • Add lines 8 (the tax on this year’s income without the 
                                                              elected farm income), 10, 11, and 12 (the recomputed tax 
11. Add lines 9 and 10.                         $15,200       on income with the elected farm income for the three base 
12. Tax on amount on line 11 using 2021 tax                   years). Enter the total tax on line 13.
    table or chart.                             $1,077
                                                              Tax on base years without 2023 elected 
                                                              farm income
13. 2022 taxable income.                        $2,650
14. Amount from line 6.                         $8,000        Lines 14 through 17. Use Tables 1, 2, and 3 under “Full-year 
                                                              filers” to determine the amount of tax to enter for each base 
15. Add lines 13 and 14.                        $10,650
                                                              year on lines 14, 15, and 16. Enter the total tax on line 17.
16. Tax on amount on line 15 using 2022 tax 
    table or chart.                             $668          Tax on 2023 income
17. Add lines 4, 8, 12, and 16.                 $3,578        Line 18. Subtract the tax amount on line 17 from the tax 
                                                              amount on line 13. This is the tax on your 2023 income if you 
18. Tax from 2020 Form OR-40.                   $145          use FIA.
19. Tax from 2021 Form OR-40.                   $416          Line 19. Use the tax rate charts from this year’s return 
                                                              instructions to find the tax on your 2023 taxable income if 
20. Tax from 2022 Form OR-40.                   $126
                                                              you don’t use FIA.
                                                              Line 20. Compare the amount on line 18 to the amount on 
21. Add lines 18, 19, and 20.                   $687
                                                              line 19. Enter the smaller amount on line 20.
22. Line 17 minus line 21.                      $2,891
                                                              • If the amount on line 20 equals the amount on line 19, 
23. Tax on amount on line 1 using 2023 tax 
                                                              don’t use FIA. 
    table or chart.                             $3,219
                                                              • If the amount on line 20 equals the amount on line 18, use 
24. Smaller of line 22 or line 23.              $2,891        FIA for 2023. Enter the amount from line 20 on Form OR-
Because the tax using FIA is less than the tax without FIA,   40-P, line 44. Be sure to check box 44a to indicate that you 
Kelly enters the amount from line 24 on Form OR-40, line      used FIA to figure your tax. Keep Schedule OR-FIA-40-P 
20, and marks box 20a to indicate that FIA was used to cal-   with your tax records.
culate the tax.
                                                              Nonresident filers—OR-FIA-40-N

Part-year filers—OR-FIA-40-P                                  Tax on 2023 income without elected farm income
Tax on 2023 income without elected farm income                Lines 1 through 4. Subtract your elected farm income from 
                                                              Oregon sources from your income after subtractions in both 
Lines 1 through 4                                             the federal and Oregon columns. Before you recompute your 
Subtract your elected farm income from Oregon sources         taxable income and tax, you will need to recompute your 
from your income after subtractions in both the federal and   Oregon percentage on line 4.
Oregon columns. Before you recompute your taxable income      Lines 5 through 9. Divide your prorated deductions and 
and tax, you will need to recompute your Oregon percent-      modifications shown on line 42 of your return by your Ore-
age on line 4.                                                gon percentage on line 35.  The result is your non-prorated 
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deductions and modifications for the year. (Alternatively,        Tax on base years without 2023 elected 
you can use the amount from line 4 of the worksheet in            farm income
the instructions for line 42 of your return.)  Multiply this 
amount by your recomputed Oregon percentage. Enter the            Lines 15 through 18. Use Tables 1, 2, and 3 under “Full-year 
result on line 5.                                                 filers” to determine the amount of tax to enter for each base 
                                                                  year on lines 15, 16, and 17. Enter the total tax on line 18.
• To this amount, add your deductions and modifications 
  that are not multiplied by the Oregon percentage, if any,       Tax on 2023 income
  from line 43 of your return. Enter the total on line 7.
• Subtract the total deductions and modifications on line 7       Line 19. Subtract the tax amount from line 18 from the tax 
  from the amount in the    Oregon column on line 3b to get       amount on line 14. This is the tax on your 2023 income if you 
  your remaining taxable income on line 8.                        use FIA.
• Use the tax rate charts inside your return instructions to      Line 20. Use the tax tables from this year’s return instructions 
  find the tax on the amount on line 8.                           to find the tax on your 2023 taxable income if you don’t use 
                                                                  FIA.
Tax on base years with 2023 elected farm income
                                                                  Line 21. Compare the amount on line 19 to the amount on 
Lines 10 through 14                                               20. Enter the smaller amount on line 21.
• Divide your 2023 elected farm income by 3 and enter the         • If the amount on line 21 equals the amount on line 20, 
  result on line 10.                                              don’t use FIA. 
• Use the Schedule OR-FIA-COMP instructions for recom-            • If the amount on line 21 equals the amount on line 19, use 
  puting the tax for each base year with the elected farm         FIA for 2023. Enter the amount from line 21 on Form OR-
  income added. Enter the results on lines 11 through 13.         40-N, line 46. Be sure to check box 46a to indicate that you 
• Add lines 9 (the tax on this year’s income without the          used FIA to figure your tax. Keep Schedule OR-FIA-40-N 
  elected farm income), 11, 12, and 13 (the recomputed tax        with your tax records.
  on income with the elected farm income for the three base 
  years). Enter the total tax on line 14.
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                            Instructions for Schedule OR-FIA-COMP
Use Schedule OR-FIA-COMP if you were a part-year resi-
dent or nonresident for one or more base years or if you’re       Schedule OR-FIA-COMP  
filing a part-year or nonresident return this year. Before you    Base year 2020
complete this schedule, figure your tax on your 2023 income 
without the elected farm income and determine the amount          Note: If you didn’t have a filing requirement for a base year, 
equal to one-third of your 2023 elected farm income.              use the computation that corresponds to the type of return 
Full-year filers: Complete Schedule OR-FIA-40 through           you would have filed based on your residency status for 
  line 4 and divide your elected farm income amount by            that year.
  three.                                                          Computation A—Nonresident return for 2020
Part-year filers: Complete Schedule OR-FIA-40-P through 
                                                                  Line 1: Most recently averaged income or income after sub-
  line 9.
                                                                  tractions. 
Nonresident filers: Complete Schedule OR-FIA-40-N                          The computation for 2020 starts by entering your 
                                                                  averaged income if you used FIA that year or a later base 
  through line 10.                                                year, or your income after subtractions if you didn’t use FIA 
                                                                  for any base year. 
Computations A, B, and C
                                                                  • If you didn’t file a 2020 Oregon return because you had 
Schedule OR-FIA-COMP is arranged by base years, starting          no Oregon-source income, enter your federal AGI in the 
with tax year 2020. For each base year, there is a computation    federal column and $0 in the Oregon column. 
that corresponds to the type of return you filed for that year.   • If you had Oregon-source income in 2020, but it wasn’t 
Use:                                                              enough to meet the filing requirement, enter your federal 
Computation A if you filed a nonresident return.                AGI in the federal column and your Oregon-source income 
Computation B if you filed a part-year return.                  in the Oregon column. 
Computation C if you filed a full-year return.                  • If you had negative taxable income in 2020, see “Negative 
                                                                  taxable income for base year.” 
                                                                  • Otherwise, use Table 4 to determine the amounts to enter 
                                                                  on lines 1a and 1b.

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Table 4: Base year 2020, Nonresident return                       • If you had Oregon-source income in 2020, but it wasn’t 
                            Enter the amount from:                enough to meet the filing requirement, enter your federal 
                                                                  AGI in the federal column and your Oregon-source income 
If you:        Form or      for tax  Computa- for tax             in the Oregon column.
                                                      lines
               schedule     year tion         year
                                                                  • If you had negative taxable income in 2020, see “Negative 
Used FIA to                                                       taxable income for base year.” 
figure your  OR-FIA-COMP 2022    A            2020    3a, 3b      • Otherwise, use Table 5 to determine the amounts to enter 
tax in 2022                                                       on lines 1a and 1b.
Didn’t use 
FIA in 2022,                                                      Table 5: Base year 2020, part-year return
             OR-FIA-COMP 2021    A            2020    3a, 3b
but used FIA 
                                                                                           Enter the amount from:
in 2021
Didn’t use                                                        If you:        Form or   for tax  Computa- for tax 
                                                                                                                         lines
FIA in 2022                                                                      schedule  year  tion      year
or 2021, but OR-FIA-40-N    2020                      3a, 3b      Used FIA in 
                                                                               OR-FIA-COMP 2022  B         2020      3a, 3b
used FIA in                                                       2022
2020
                                                                  Didn't use 
Did none                                                          FIA in 2022, 
                                                      34F,                     OR-FIA-COMP 2021  B         2020      3a, 3b
of the         OR-40-N      2020                                  but did use 
                                                      34S
above                                                             FIA in 2021
                                                                  Didn't use 
Lines 2 through 4. Enter one-third of your 2023 elected farm 
                                                                  FIA in 2022 
income on lines 2a and 2b, then add it to your 2020 averaged      or 2021, but OR-FIA-40-P 2020                      3a, 3b
income or income after subtractions. Then recompute your          did use FIA 
2020 Oregon percentage.                                           in 2020
Lines 5 and 6. Using your 2020 Form OR-40-N, divide your          Did none 
                                                                                                                         34F, 
prorated deductions and modifications on line 42 by your          of the         OR-40-P   2020
                                                                                                                         34S
                                                                  above
2020 Oregon percentage on line 35, then multiply that 
amount by your recomputed 2020 Oregon percentage. The             Lines 2 through 4. Enter one-third of your 2023 elected farm 
result is your recomputed prorated deductions and modifi-         income on lines 2a and 2b, then add it to your 2020 averaged 
cations for base year 2020. Note: If you had Oregon-source        income or income after subtractions. Then recompute your 
income but didn’t have a filing requirement, see the 2020         2020 Oregon percentage.
return instructions for deductions you could have claimed 
on Form OR-40-N, line 42. Enter the full amount of these          Lines 5 and 6. Enter the amount of your deductions and 
deductions, if any, on line 5. If you didn’t have Oregon-         modifications from your 2020 Form OR-40-P, line 42, then 
source income, enter $0 on lines 5 and 6.                         subtract it from your income after subtractions in the federal 
                                                                  column on line 3a. Note: If you had Oregon-source income 
Lines 7 through 9. Enter your deductions and modifica-            but didn’t have a filing requirement, see the 2020 return 
tions that weren’t prorated using your Oregon percentage,         instructions for deductions you could have claimed on Form 
if any, from your 2020 Form OR-40-N, line 43. Add them to         OR-40-P, line 42.
the amount from line 6, then subtract the total from your 
income after subtractions in the Oregon column on line 3b.        Lines 7 and 8. Use the tax rate charts in the instructions for 
Note: If you didn’t have Oregon-source income, enter $0 on        your 2020 Form OR-40-P to calculate the tax on the amount 
lines 7 and 8.                                                    on line 6. Then multiply the tax by your recomputed Oregon 
                                                                  percentage.  This is your recomputed tax if you filed (or 
Line 10. Use the tax rate charts in the instructions for your     would have filed) a part-year return for tax year 2020.
2020 Form OR-40-N to calculate the tax on the amount on 
                                                                  __________________________________________________
line 9. This is your recomputed tax if you filed (or would have 
filed) a nonresident return for tax year 2020.
                                                                  Computation C—Full-year return for 2020
__________________________________________________
                                                                  Line 1: Most recently averaged income or taxable income. 
Computation B—Part-year return for 2020                           The computation for 2020 starts by entering your averaged 
Line 1: Most recently averaged income or income after sub-        income if you used FIA that year or a later base year, or your 
tractions. The computation for 2020 starts by entering your       taxable income if you didn’t use FIA for any base year. 
averaged income if you used FIA that year or a later base         • If you were a full-year resident in 2020 but you didn’t have 
year, or your income after subtractions if you didn’t use FIA     a filing requirement, enter $0.
for any base year.                                                • If you had negative taxable income in 2020, see “Negative 
• If you didn’t file a 2020 Oregon return because you had         taxable income for base year.” 
no Oregon-source income, enter your federal AGI in the            • Otherwise, use Table 6 to determine the amount to enter 
federal column and $0 in the Oregon column.                       on line 1.

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Table 6: Base year 2020, full-year return                           Table 7: Base year 2021, Nonresident return
                            Enter the amount from:                                            Enter the amount from:
     If you:       Form or  for tax  Computa- for tax               If you:       Form or     for tax  Computa- for tax 
                                                          line                                                          lines
                  schedule  year tion                year                         schedule      year  tion        year
Used FIA in 2022 and:                                               Used FIA in 
                                                                                 OR-FIA-COMP 2022     A           2021  3a, 3b
                                                                    2022
Didn’t use                                                          Didn't use 
                  OR-FIA-40 2022                          11
OR-FIA-COMP                                                         FIA in 2022, 
                                                                                  OR-FIA-40-N 2021                      3a, 3b
Used               OR-FIA-                                          but did use 
                            2022                C    2020 3
OR-FIA-COMP           COMP                                          FIA in 2021
Didn’t use FIA in 2022, but did use FIA in 2021 and:                Did none 
                                                                                                                        34F, 
Didn’t use                                                          of the        OR-40-N     2021
                  OR-FIA-40 2021                          15                                                            34S
OR-FIA-COMP                                                         above

Used               OR-FIA-                                          Lines 2 through 4. Enter one-third of your 2023 elected farm 
                            2021                C    2020 3
OR-FIA-COMP           COMP                                          income on lines 2a and 2b, then add it to your 2021 averaged 
Didn’t use                                                          income or income after subtractions. Then recompute your 
FIA in 2022 or                                                      2021 Oregon percentage.
                  OR-FIA-40 2020                          3
2021, but did use                                                   Lines 5 and 6. Using your 2021 Form OR-40-N, divide your 
FIA in 2020
                                                                    prorated deductions and modifications on line 42 by your 
Did none of the                                                     2021 Oregon percentage on line 35, then multiply that 
                      OR-40 2020                          19
above                                                               amount by your recomputed 2021 Oregon percentage. The 
                                                                    result is your recomputed prorated deductions and modifi-
Lines 2 through 4. Enter one-third of your 2023 elected farm        cations for base year 2021.  Note: If you had Oregon-source 
income on line 2, then add it to your 2020 averaged income          income but didn’t have a filing requirement, see the 2021 
or taxable income.                                                  return instructions for deductions you could have claimed 
                                                                    on Form OR-40-N, line 42. Enter the full amount of these 
Line 5. Use the tax tables or rate charts in the instructions for   deductions, if any, on line 5. If you didn’t have Oregon-
your 2020 Form OR-40 to calculate the tax on the amount on          source income, enter $0 on lines 5 and 6.
line 4. This is your recomputed tax if you filed (or would have 
                                                                    Lines 7 through 9. Enter your deductions and modifica-
filed) a full-year return for tax year 2020.                        tions that weren’t prorated using your Oregon percentage, 
                                                                    if any, from your 2021 Form OR-40-N, line 43. Add them to 
Schedule OR-FIA-COMP                                                the amount from line 6, then subtract the total from your 
                                                                    income after subtractions in the Oregon column on line 3b. 
Base year 2021
                                                                    Note: If you didn’t have Oregon-source income, enter $0 on 
                                                                    lines 7 and 8.
Computation A—Nonresident return for 2021
                                                                    Line 10. Use the tax rate charts in the instructions for your 
Line 1: Most recently averaged income or income after sub-          2021 Form OR-40-N to calculate the tax on the amount on 
tractions. The computation for 2021 starts by entering your         line 9. This is your recomputed tax if you filed (or would have 
averaged income if you used FIA that year or 2022, or your          filed) a nonresident return for tax year 2021.
income after subtractions if you didn’t use FIA for either          __________________________________________________
base year. 
                                                                    Computation B—Part-year return for 2021
• If you didn’t file a 2021 Oregon return because you had 
no Oregon-source income, enter your federal AGI in the              Line 1: Most recently averaged income or income after sub-
federal column and $0 in the Oregon column.                         tractions. The computation for 2021 starts by entering your 
• If you had Oregon-source income in 2021, but it wasn’t            averaged income if you used FIA that year or 2022, or your 
                                                                    income after subtractions if you didn’t use FIA for either 
enough to meet the filing requirement, enter your federal 
                                                                    base year. 
AGI in the federal column and your Oregon-source income 
in the Oregon column.                                               • If you didn’t file a 2021 Oregon return because you had 
• If you had negative taxable income in 2021, see “Negative         no Oregon-source income, enter your federal AGI in the 
taxable income for base year.”                                      federal column and $0 in the Oregon column. 
• Otherwise, use Table 7 to determine the amounts to enter          • If you had Oregon-source income in 2021, but it wasn’t 
                                                                    enough to meet the filing requirement, enter your federal 
on lines 1a and 1b.
                                                                    AGI in the federal column and your Oregon-source income 
                                                                    in the Oregon column.

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• If you had negative taxable income in 2021, see “Negative      Table 9: Base year 2021, full-year return
taxable income for base year.”                                                            Enter the amount from:
• Otherwise, use Table 8 to determine the amounts to enter 
                                                                 If you:
on lines 1a and 1b.                                                               Form or for tax  Computa- for tax 
                                                                                                                    line
                                                                                schedule  year      tion    year
Table 8: Base year 2021, part-year return                        Used FIA in 2022 and:
                            Enter the amount from:               Didn't use 
                                                                                OR-FIA-40 2022                      15
If you:        Form or      for tax  Computa- for tax            OR-FIA-COMP
                                                       lines
               schedule     year tion     year                   Used             OR-FIA-
                                                                                          2022      C       2021    3
                                                                 OR-FIA-COMP      COMP
Used FIA in 
             OR-FIA-COMP 2022    B        2021        3a, 3b     Didn’t use 
2022
                                                                 FIA in 2022, 
                                                                                OR-FIA-40 2021                      3
Didn't use                                                       but did use 
FIA in 2022,                                                     FIA in 2021
             OR-FIA-40-P    2021                      3a, 3b
but did use 
FIA in 2021                                                      Did none of 
                                                                                  OR-40   2021                      19
Did none                                                         the above
                                                       34F, 
of the         OR-40-P      2021
                                                       34S
above                                                            Lines 2 through 4. Enter one-third of your 2023 elected farm 
                                                                 income on line 2, then add it to your 2021 averaged income 
Lines 2 through 4. Enter one-third of your 2023 elected farm 
                                                                 or taxable income.
income on lines 2a and 2b, then add it to your 2021 averaged 
income or income after subtractions. Then recompute your         Line 5. Use the tax tables or rate charts in the instructions 
2021 Oregon percentage.                                          for your 2021 Form OR-40 to calculate the tax on the amount 
                                                                 on line 4. This is your recomputed tax if you filed a full-year 
Lines 5 and 6. Enter the amount of your deductions and 
                                                                 return for tax year 2021.
modifications from your 2021 Form OR-40-P, line 42, then 
subtract it from your income after subtractions in the Oregon 
column on line 3b. Note: If you had Oregon-source income         Schedule OR-FIA-COMP 
in 2021 but didn’t have a filing requirement, see the 2021       Base year 2022
return instructions for deductions you could have claimed 
on Form OR-40-P, line 42.
                                                                 Computation A—Nonresident return for 2022
Lines 7 and 8. Use the tax rate charts in the instructions for 
your 2021 Form OR-40-P to calculate the tax on the amount        Line 1: Most recently averaged income or income after sub-
on line 6. Then multiply the tax by your recomputed Oregon       tractions. The computation for 2022 starts by entering your 
percentage.  This is your recomputed tax if you filed (or        averaged income if you used FIA that year, or your income 
would have filed) a part-year return for tax year 2021.          after subtractions if you didn’t use FIA. 
__________________________________________________               • If you didn’t file a 2022 Oregon return because you had 
                                                                 no Oregon-source income, enter your federal AGI in the 
Computation C—Full-year return for 2021                          federal column and $0 in the Oregon column. 
                                                                 • If you had Oregon-source income in 2022, but it wasn’t 
Line 1: Most recently averaged income or taxable income.         enough to meet the filing requirement, enter your federal 
The computation for 2021 starts by entering your averaged        AGI in the federal column and your Oregon-source income 
income if you used FIA that year or 2022, or your taxable        in the Oregon column.
income if you didn’t use FIA for either base year.               • If you had negative taxable income in 2022, see “Negative 
• If you were a full-year resident in 2021 but you didn’t have   taxable income for base year.” 
a filing requirement, enter $0.                                  • Otherwise, use Table 10 to determine the amounts to enter 
• If you had negative taxable income in 2021, see “Negative      on lines 1a and 1b.
taxable income for base year.” 
• Otherwise, use Table 9 to determine the amount to enter        Table 10: Base year 2022, Nonresident return
on line 1.                                                                                Enter the amount from:
                                                                        If you:           Form or 
                                                                                                    for tax year    lines
                                                                                         schedule
                                                                 Used FIA in 2022       OR-FIA-40-N 2022         3a, 3b

                                                                 Didn't use FIA in 2022   OR-40-N   2022         34F, 34S

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Lines 2 through 4. Enter one-third of your 2023 elected farm      Lines 2 through 4. Enter one-third of your 2023 elected farm 
income on lines 2a and 2b, then add it to your 2022 averaged      income on lines 2a and 2b, then add it to your 2022 averaged 
income or income after subtractions. Then recompute your          income or income after subtractions. Then recompute your 
2022 Oregon percentage.                                           2022 Oregon percentage.
Lines 5 and 6. Using your 2022 Form OR-40-N, divide your          Lines 5 and 6. Enter the amount of your deductions and 
prorated deductions and modifications on line 42 by your          modifications from your 2022 Form OR-40-P, line 42, then 
2022 Oregon percentage on line 35, then multiply that             subtract it from your income after subtractions in the federal 
amount by your recomputed 2022 Oregon percentage. The             column on line 3a. Note: If you had Oregon-source income 
result is your recomputed prorated deductions and modifi-         in 2022 but didn’t have a filing requirement, see the 2022 
cations for base year 2022. Note: If you had Oregon-source        return instructions for deductions you could have claimed 
income in 2022 but didn’t have a filing requirement, see          on Form OR-40-P, line 42.
the 2022 return instructions for deductions you could have        Lines 7 and 8. Use the tax rate charts in the instructions for 
claimed on Form OR-40-N, line 42. Enter the full amount of        your 2022 Form OR-40-P to calculate the tax on the amount 
these deductions, if any, on line 5. If you didn’t have Oregon-   on line 6. Then multiply the tax by your recomputed Oregon 
source income, enter $0 on lines 5 and 6.                         percentage. This is your recomputed tax if you filed (or would 
Lines 7 through 9. Enter your deductions and modifica-            have filed) a part-year return for tax year 2022. 
tions that weren’t prorated using your Oregon percentage,         Computation C—Full-year return for 2022
if any, from your 2022 Form OR-40-N, line 43. Add them to 
the amount from line 6, then subtract the total from your         Line 1: Most recently averaged income or taxable income. 
income after subtractions in the Oregon column on line 3b.        The computation for 2022 starts by entering your averaged 
Note: If you didn’t have Oregon-source income, enter $0 on        income if you used FIA, or your taxable income if you didn’t 
lines 7 and 8.                                                    use FIA. 
Line 10. Use the tax rate charts in the instructions for your     • If you were a full-year resident in 2022 but you didn’t have 
2022 Form OR-40-N to calculate the tax on the amount on           a filing requirement, enter $0.
line 9. This is your recomputed tax if you filed (or would have   • If you had negative taxable income in 2022, see “Negative 
filed) a nonresident return for tax year 2022.                    taxable income for base year.” 
                                                                  • Otherwise, use Table 12 to determine the amount to enter 
__________________________________________________
                                                                  on line 1.
Computation B—Part-year return for 2022                           Table 12: Base year 2022, full-year return
                                                                                           Enter the amount from:
Line 1: Most recently averaged income or income after sub-
tractions. The computation for 2022 starts by entering your               If you:        Form or 
                                                                                                   for tax year     line
averaged income if you used FIA that year, or your income                                schedule
after subtractions if you didn’t use FIA.                         Used FIA in 2022       OR-FIA-40 2022             3
• If you didn’t file a 2022 Oregon return because you had 
no Oregon-source income, enter your federal AGI in the            Didn’t use FIA in 2022 OR-40     2021             19
federal column and $0 in the Oregon column. 
• If you had Oregon-source income in 2022, but it wasn’t          Lines 2 through 4. Enter one-third of your 2023 elected farm 
enough to meet the filing requirement, enter your federal         income on line 2, then add it to your 2022 averaged income 
AGI in the federal column and your Oregon-source income           or taxable income. 
in the Oregon column.
                                                                  Line 5. Use the tax tables or rate charts in the instructions for 
• If you had negative taxable income in 2022, see “Negative 
                                                                  your 2022 Form OR-40 to calculate the tax on the amount on 
taxable income for base year.” 
                                                                  line 4. This is your recomputed tax if you filed (or would have 
• Otherwise, use Table 11 to determine the amounts to enter 
                                                                  filed) a full-year return for tax year 2022.
on lines 1a and 1b.
                                                                  Example 2: Kevin and Laura are married Oregon residents 
Table 11: Base year 2022, part-year return
                                                                  who have filed joint returns for the past several years. They 
                            Enter the amount from:                inherited a working farm in southern Oregon and relocated 
        If you:        Form or                                    to this state from Nevada last year. They didn’t file Oregon 
                                   for tax year    lines
                       schedule                                   returns for the first two base years (2020 and 2021) because 
                                                                  they had no Oregon-source income. Their federal AGI was 
Used FIA in 2022       OR-FIA-40-P 2022         3a, 3b
                                                                  $32,000 for base year 2020 and $29,000 for base year 2021.
Didn't use FIA in 2022 OR-40-P     2022         34F, 34S          Kevin and Laura claimed the Oregon standard deduction on 
                                                                  their 2022 part-year return, and they didn’t pay any federal 

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tax. Their 2023 elected farm income is $18,000. Here are their     9. Line 3b minus line 8.                    $6,000
income and tax figures for base year 2022 and this year:
                                                                  10. Tax on line 9 using 2021 
Base year 2022:                                                       rate chart                               $285
       Item                         From           Amount         Kevin and Laura use Computation B for base year 2022.
Federal income after 
                            Form OR-40-P, line 34F $28,000
subtractions                                                      Computation B, base year 2022    Federal (a) Oregon (b)
Oregon income after                                                                                (a)
                            Form OR-40-P, line 34S $12,000
subtractions                                                       1. Income after subtractions       $28,000  $12,000
                                                   42.9%  
Oregon percentage           Form OR-40-P, line 35                  2. One third of elected farm 
                                                   (0.429)            income                          $6,000   $6,000
Taxable income              Form OR-40-P, line 43  $23,160
                                                                   3. Add lines 1 and 2.              $34,000  $18,000
Tax before Oregon 
                            Form OR-40-P, line 44  $1,499
percentage                                                         4. Recomputed Oregon 
Tax                         Form OR-40-P, line 45  $643               percentage                      52.9%
                                                                   5. Deductions and 
Tax year 2023:                                                        modifications                   $4,840
       Item                         From           Amount          6. Line 3a minus line 5.                    $29,160
Taxable income              Form OR-40, line 19    $37,250         7. Tax on line 6 using 2022 
                            (using 2023 tax 
Tax                                                                   rate chart.                              $2,024
                            tables)                $2,689
                                                                   8. Line 7 multiplied by line 4.             $1,071
Kevin and Laura’s Schedule OR-FIA-COMP for all base 
                                                                  Schedule OR-FIA-40 for tax year 2023. After completing 
years. They use Schedule OR-FIA-COMP, Computation A 
                                                                  Schedule OR-FIA-COMP for all of the base years, Kevin and 
for base years 2020 and 2021, when they were nonresidents, 
                                                                  Laura complete Schedule OR-FIA-40:
using the figures from the worksheets above.
                                                                   1. 2023 taxable income.                     $37,250
Computation A, base year 2020       Federal (a)    Oregon (b)
                                                                   2. Elected farm income.                     $18,000
 1. Income after subtractions.           $32,000        $0
                                                                   3. Line 1 minus line 2.                     $19,250
 2. One third of elected farm 
                                                                   4. Tax on amount on line 3 using 2023 
    income.                                 $6,000 $6,000
                                                                      tax table or chart.                      $1,138
 3. Add lines 1 and 2.                   $38,000   $6,000
 4. Recomputed Oregon 
                                                                   5. 2020 taxable income.
    percentage.                             15.7%                                                                      $0
 5. Deductions and                                                 6. Line 2 divided by 3.                     $6,000
    modifications.                                      $0         7. Add lines 5 and 6.                       $6,000
 6. Lime 5 multiplied by line 4.                        $0         8. 2020 tax from OR-FIA-COMP.               $285
 7. Form OR-40-N, line 43.                              $0
 8. Add lines 6 and 7.                                  $0         9. 2021 taxable income.                             $0
 9. Line 3b minus line 8.                          $6,000         10. Amount from line 6.                      $6,000
10. Tax on line 9 using 2020                                      11. Add lines 9 and 10.                      $6,000
    rate chart                                     $285           12. 2021 tax from OR-FIA-COMP.               $285

Computation A, base year 2021       Federal (a)    Oregon (b)
                                                                  13. 2022 taxable income.                     $12,000
 1. Income after subtractions            $29,000        $0
                                                                  14. Amount from line 6.                      $6,000
 2. One third of elected farm 
    income                                  $6,000 $6,000         15. Add lines 13 and 14.                     $18,000
 3. Add lines 1 and 2.                   $35,000   $6,000         16. Tax on amount on line 15 using 2022  
                                                                      rate chart.                              $1,071
 4. Recomputed Oregon 
    percentage                              17.1%                 17. Add lines 4, 8, 12, and 16.              $2,779
 5. Deductions and 
    modifications                                       $0        18. 2020 tax from return.                            $0
 6. Lime 5 multiplied by line 4.                        $0        19. 2021 tax from return.                            $0
 7. Form OR-40-N, line 43.                              $0        20. 2022 tax from return.                    $643
 8. Add lines 6 and 7.                                  $0
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21.    Add lines 18, 19, and 20.                      $643         Because the tax using FIA is less than the tax without FIA, 
                                                                   Kevin and Laura use FIA for 2023. They enter the amount 
22.    Line 17 minus line 21.                     $2,136           from line 24 on Form OR-40, line 20 and mark box 20a to 
23.    Tax on amount on line 1 using 2023                          indicate that FIA was used to calculate the tax. They keep 
       tax table or chart.                        $2,689           Schedules OR-FIA-40 and OR-FIA-COMP with their tax 
24.    Smaller of line 22 or line 23.             $2,136           records.
                                   __________________________________________________

                            Negative taxable income for base year
If your taxable income for any base year was zero because 
your deductions were more than your income, you may have           General instructions for FIA taxable 
negative taxable income for that year to combine with your         income worksheets
elected farm income.
In general, for FIA purposes, all deductions for the base year     First, you will figure your income after subtractions if you 
are allowed in full, even if they cause taxable income to be       filed a part-year or nonresident return, or your taxable 
less than zero, but with certain adjustments described below.      income if you filed a full-year return, for the base year 
For purposes of averaging your farm income, your taxable           without limiting the amount to zero. Exceptions: If you had 
income can be less than zero. If you had negative taxable          an NOL that year, include the full amount of the NOL, but 
income in any base year, use the FIA taxable income work-          don’t include any NOL deductions carried to that year. If you 
sheets in these instructions to figure the amount to enter as      didn’t have an NOL that year, but you carried an NOLD to 
your taxable income on Schedule OR-FIA-COMP.                       that year, include the full amount of the NOLD in your cal-
                                                                   culation, even if you’ll be carrying some of it to another year.
Net operating losses. You may have negative taxable income 
due to a net operating loss, or NOL. An NOL year is the year       Next, if you had a net capital loss for the base year, you’ll  
of the actual loss. The NOL deduction, or NOLD, applies            recompute your capital loss carryover to the following year 
to the year to which the NOL is carried and deducted on a          to include the amount that was deducted. The amount 
past or future return. See IRS Pub. 536 for more information       deducted on your return will also be added to your base 
about NOLs.                                                        year income.
Special rules for loss deductions. There are some rules that       Then you’ll subtract the net loss amount shown on your 
apply to NOLs, NOL deductions, and capital losses that             federal Schedule D, line 16. 
must be followed when figuring your taxable income for             Finally, if you had an NOL for the base year, you’ll add the 
your base year.                                                    NOL amount back because it can provide a benefit in another 
1. You can’t claim a capital loss deduction on a return to         year. If you didn’t have an NOL, you’ll add back any unused 
   which you’re carrying an NOL deduction. If you carry an         NOLD carryovers or carrybacks that can provide a benefit 
   NOLD to a year when you claimed a capital loss deduc-           in another year.
   tion, you must recompute your capital loss carryover to         The result is your taxable income for that base year for FIA 
   include the amount deducted. The capital loss already           purposes. 
   deducted before the NOLD was applied also must be 
   added back to the base year income; it can’t be used to         Example 3: John, a single filer, owns a farming business in 
   decrease the income used to calculate the FIA tax.              Ontario, Oregon, but he resides in Idaho. John files a non-
2.  Although deductions are allowed in full for FIA purpos-        resident Oregon return each year. 
   es, any deduction amount that may provide a benefit in          John didn’t use FIA for 2020, 2021, or 2022. He is planning 
   another tax year must be added back. Generally, this in-        to use FIA for 2023. His 2023 elected farm income is $18,000.
   cludes NOLs and unused NOL deductions that are carried 
   forward to another year, as well as capital loss carryovers.    Base year 2020—John’s original 2020 federal income after 
                                                                   subtractions was $25,625, with $850 from Oregon sources. 
You will need the Capital Loss Carryover Worksheet from the 
federal Schedule D instructions  for the year following the        John’s 2020 income included a $7,000 capital loss from Ore-
base year if any amount of capital loss for the base year could    gon sources. His  capital loss deduction on federal Schedule 
be carried over to a later year.                                   D, line 21 was $3,000, with $4,000 ($7,000 – $3,000) remaining 
                                                                   as a carryover to tax year 2021. 
Note for part-year and nonresident filers: NOLs, NOL deduc-
tions, capital losses, and capital loss carryovers may be for      John later amended his 2020 nonresident return when he 
Oregon only, for federal only, or for both. Use the worksheet      carried back an NOL from tax year 2021. The NOL deduction 
for any base year when your income after subtractions in           caused him to have negative Oregon taxable income, so John 
either the federal column or the Oregon column is negative.        will need to use the taxable income worksheet for base year 
                                                                   2020 before he completes Schedule OR-FIA-COMP. 

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Base year 2021—John’s federal income after subtractions was        John’s taxable income worksheet for base year 2020
$32,500 for tax year 2021, but he had an Oregon-only NOL 
of $14,500. John elected to carry the NOL back two years.          1. 2020 income after 
Of this amount, $5,500 was absorbed by John’s 2019 Oregon          subtractions from 
income, leaving a $9,000 carryover to 2020.                        Form OR-40-P or OR-
                                                                   40-N, lines 34F and 
Because he had an NOL for 2021, John will need to use the          34S.                      1a.  $25,625 1b.     ($8,150)
taxable income worksheet for base year 2021.
                                                                   2. 2020 capital loss 
Base year 2022—John’s Oregon taxable income was positive           deduction from 
for 2022, even after absorbing the remaining 2021 NOL. He          federal Schedule D, 
doesn’t need to use a taxable income worksheet for base            line 21, as a positive 
year 2022.                                                         amount.                   2a.      $3,000 2b.  $3,000
John’s worksheet for base year 2020. Here is how John will         3. Capital loss carryover 
complete the Oregon column of his   taxable income work-           from 2020 to 2021 as a 
sheet for base year 2020.                                          positive amount.          3a.      $4,000 3a.  $7,000
Line 1. John combines his original $850 income after sub-          4. Add lines 1, 2 and 3.  4a.  $33,625 4b.     $1,850
tractions with the $9,000 NOLD, resulting in income after          5. Net loss from 2020 
subtractions of ($8,150) without limiting it to zero.              federal Schedule D, 
                                                                   line 16, as a positive 
Line 2.  John enters the $3,000 capital loss deduction from his    amount.                   5a.      $7,000 5b.  $7,000
2020 federal Schedule D, line 21. 
                                                                   6. Line 4 minus line 5.   6a.  $25,625 6b.     ($5,150)
Line 3. When John carried the $9,000 NOLD to 2020, he 
                                                                   7. NOL for 2020, as a 
wasn’t allowed to claim the $3,000 capital loss deduction. 
                                                                   positive amount, or 
He recomputes his capital loss carryover by adding the disal-
                                                                   if no NOL for 2020, 
lowed $3,000 deduction to the  original $4,000 carryover. He 
                                                                   unused portion of 
enters $7,000 ($3,000 + $4,000) on line 3. 
                                                                   NOLD carried to 
Line 4. The total on line 4 is the 2020 base year income with      2020, if any, carried 
the NOL deduction allowed in full, with the 2020 capital loss      over to tax years after 
deduction added back, plus the recomputed capital loss car-        2020, as a positive 
ryover. The amount John enters on line 4 is $1,850 [($8,150)       amount.                   7a.         $0 7b.   $5,150
+ $3,000 + $7,000].                                                8. Line 6 plus line 7. 
Line 5. John enters the full $7,000 net capital loss from the      This is your income 
2020 Schedule D, line 16.                                          after subtractions for 
                                                                   2020.                     8a.  $25,625 8b.                $0
Line 6. John subtracts the $7,000 net capital loss from the 
amount on line 4. The result is negative $5,150 ($1,850–           John’s worksheet for base year 2021. John’s federal income 
$7,000). This represents John’s base year 2020 income with         after subtractions for 2021 is $32,500. His Oregon income after 
the NOL deduction in full, after the adjusted capital loss.        subtractions, including the deduction for the capital loss car-
Next, John will add back the portion of the NOL deduction          ryover from 2020, is ($17,500). To arrive at the NOL amount 
that can provide a benefit in another year.                        of ($14,500), the $3,000 capital loss deduction is added back.
Line 7. John figures how much of the NOL deduction will            Here is how John will complete the Oregon column of his 
provide a benefit in another year by determining how much          taxable income worksheet for base year 2021.
of the NOLD was absorbed by his 2020 income. He starts             Line 1. John enters ($17,500), his 2021 income after subtractions. 
by adding the $3,000 capital loss deduction back to the $850 
taxable income, for a total of $3,850 in available income.         Line 2.  John enters the $3,000 capital loss deduction from his 
From this amount, he subtracts the $9,000 NOLD, arriving           2021 federal Schedule D, line 21. 
at ($5,150). This is the unused amount of NOLD that John           Line 3. When John first completed the 2021 Schedule D, 
will carry forward to another year. John enters  $5,150 as a       he had a capital loss carryover of $4,000 from 2020 and a 
positive amount on line 7.                                         $3,000 deduction on line 21. When John computed the NOL 
Line 8. John adds the ($5,150) base year 2020 income from          amount, he wasn’t allowed to claim the $3,000 capital loss 
line 6 to the $5,150 unused NOLD from line 7. The result is        deduction. He recomputes the capital loss carryover by add-
$0. This is John’s base year 2020 income for FIA purposes.         ing the disallowed $3,000 deduction to the original $4,000 
                                                                   carryover. He enters $7,000 ($3,000 + $4,000) on line 3. 
John enters $25,625 in the federal column and $0 in the 
Oregon column on Schedule OR-FIA-COMP, Computation                 Line 4. The total on line 4 is the 2021 income after subtrac-
A for base year 2020, line 1.                                      tions with the 2021 capital loss deduction added back, plus 
                                                                   the recomputed capital loss carryover. The amount John 
                                                                   enters is negative $7,500 [($17,500) + $3,000 + $7,000].
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Line 5. John enters the full $7,000 net capital loss from the 
2021 Schedule D, line 16.                                          FIA taxable income worksheets 
Line 6. John subtracts the full $7,000 net capital loss from       Base year 2020
the amount on line 4. The result is negative $14,500 [($7,500) 
– $7,000].                                                         Part-year or nonresident return filed for 2020
Line 7. John enters the 2021 NOL, $14,500 as a positive number. 
                                                                   1. 2020 income after 
Line 8. John adds the ($14,500) from line 6 to the $14,500 NOL     subtractions from 
from line 7. The result is $0. This is John’s base year 2021       Form OR-40-P or  
income for FIA purposes.                                           OR-40-N, lines 34F 
                                                                   and 34S.                 1a.            1b.  
John enters $32,500 in the federal column and $0 in the 
Oregon column on Schedule OR-FIA-COMP, Computation                 2. 2020 capital loss 
A for base year 2021, line 1.                                      deduction from 
                                                                   federal Schedule D, 
John’s taxable income worksheet for base year 2021                 line 21, as a positive 
                                                                   amount.                  2a.            2b.  
1. 2021 income after 
                                                                   3. Capital loss carry-
subtractions from 
                                                                   over from 2020 to 
Form OR-40-P or OR-
                                                                   2021 as a positive 
40-N, lines 34F and 
                                                                   amount.                  3a.            3a.   
34S.                          1a.  $32,500 1b. ($17,500)
                                                                   4. Add lines 1, 2, and 3. 4a.           4b.  
2. 2021 capital loss 
deduction from                                                     5. Net loss from 2020 
federal Schedule D,                                                federal Schedule D, 
line 21, as a positive                                             line 16, as a positive 
amount.                       2a.  $3,000 2b.  $3,000              amount.                  5a.            5b.  
3. Capital loss carryover                                          6. Line 4 minus line 5.  6a.            6b.  
from 2021 to 2022 as a                                             7. NOL for 2020, as a 
positive amount.              3a.  $1,000 3a.   $7,000             positive amount, or 
4. Add lines 1, 2 and 3.      4a.  $36,500 4b.  ($7,500)           if no NOL for 2020, 
                                                                   unused portion of 
5. Net loss from 2021 
                                                                   NOLD carried to 
federal Schedule D, 
                                                                   2020, if any, carried 
line 16, as a positive 
                                                                   over to tax years 
amount.                       5a.  $4,000 5b.  $7,000
                                                                   after 2020, as a posi-
6. Line 4 minus line 5.       6a.  $32,500 6b. ($14,500)           tive amount.             7a.            7b.  
7. NOL for 2021, as a                                              8. Line 6 plus line 7. 
positive amount, or                                                This is your FIA 
if no NOL for 2021,                                                income after subtrac-
unused portion of                                                  tions for 2020.          8a.            8b.   
NOLD carried to 
2021, if any, carried                                              Enter the amounts from lines 8a and 8b on Schedule OR-FIA-
over to tax years after                                            COMP, Base year 2020, Computation A or B, lines 1a and 1b. 
2021, as a positive 
amount.                       7a.  $0 7b.      $14,500             Full-year return filed for 2020

8. Line 6 plus line 7.                                             1. 2020 taxable income, not limited to $0. 1.         
This is your FIA 
                                                                   2. 2020 capital loss deduction from fed-
income after subtrac-
                                                                   eral Schedule D, line 21, as a positive 
tions for 2021.               8a.  $32,500 8b.      $0
                                                                   amount.                                 2.            
                                                                   3. Capital loss carryover from 2020 to 
                                                                   2021 as a positive amount.              3.            
                                                                   4. Add lines 1, 2, and 3.
                                                                                                           4.      
                                                                   5. Net loss from 2020 federal Schedule 
                                                                   D, line 16, as a positive amount.
                                                                                                           5.            

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6. Line 4 minus line 5.                                      Full-year return filed for 2021
                                        6.             
                                                             1. 2021 taxable income, not limited to $0. 1.         
7. NOL for 2020, as a positive amount, 
or if no NOL for 2020, unused portion                        2. 2021 capital loss deduction from fed-
of NOLD carried to 2020, if any, car-                        eral Schedule D, line 21, as a positive 
ried over to tax years after 2020, as a                      amount.                                 2.            
positive amount.                        7.                   3. Capital loss carryover from 2021 to 
8. Line 6 plus line 7. This is your FIA                      2022 as a positive amount.              3.            
taxable income for 2020.                8.                   4. Add lines 1, 2, and 3.
                                                                                                     4.      
Enter the amount from line 8 on Schedule OR-FIA-COMP, 
Base year 2020, Computation C, line 1.                       5. Net loss from 2021 federal Schedule 
                                                             D, line 16, as a positive amount.
                                                                                                     5.            
FIA taxable income worksheets                                6. Line 4 minus line 5.
                                                                                                     6.            
Base year 2021                                               7. NOL for 2021, as a positive amount, 
                                                             or if no NOL for 2021, unused portion 
Part-year or nonresident return filed for 2021               of NOLD carried to 2021, if any, car-
                                                             ried over to tax years after 2021, as a 
1. 2021 income after                                         positive amount.                        7.            
subtractions from                                            8. Line 6 plus line 7. This is your FIA 
Form OR-40-P or                                              taxable income for 2021.                8.            
OR-40-N, lines 34F 
and 34S.                    1a.         1b.                  Enter the amount from line 8 on Schedule OR-FIA-COMP, 
2. 2021 capital loss                                         Base year 2020, Computation C, line 1.
deduction from 
federal Schedule D,                                          FIA taxable income worksheets 
line 21, as a positive 
amount.                     2a.         2b.                  Base year 2022
3. Capital loss carry-
over from 2021 to                                            Part-year or nonresident return filed for 2022
2022 as a positive 
amount.                     3a.         3a.                  1. 2022 income after 
                                                             subtractions from 
4. Add lines 1, 2, and 3. 4a.           4b.                  Form OR-40-P or 
5. Net loss from 2021                                        OR-40-N, lines 34F 
federal Schedule D,                                          and 34S.                 1a.            1b.  
line 16, as a positive                                       2. 2022 capital loss 
amount.                     5a.         5b.                  deduction from 
6. Line 4 minus line 5.     6a.         6b.                  federal Schedule D, 
7. NOL for 2021, as a                                        line 21, as a positive 
positive amount, or                                          amount.                  2a.            2b.  
if no NOL for 2021,                                          3. Capital loss carry-
unused portion of                                            over from 2022 to 
NOLD carried to                                              2023 as a positive 
2021, if any, carried                                        amount.                  3a.            3a.   
over to tax years                                            4. Add lines 1, 2, and 3. 4a.           4b.  
after 2022, as a posi-
tive amount.                7a.         7b.                  5. Net loss from 2022 
                                                             federal Schedule D, 
8. Line 6 plus line 7.                                       line 16, as a positive 
This is your FIA                                             amount.                  5a.            5b.  
income after subtrac-
tions for 2021.             8a.         8b.                  6. Line 4 minus line 5.  6a.            6b.  

Enter the amounts from lines 8a and 8b on Schedule OR-FIA-
COMP, Base year 2021, Computation A or B, lines 1a and 1b.

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7. NOL for 2022, as a 
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positive amount, or 
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2022, if any, carried 
over to tax years                                            Contact us for ADA accommodations or assistance in other 
after 2022, as a posi-                                       languages.
tive amount.                7a.         7b.  
8. Line 6 plus line 7. 
This is your FIA 
income after subtrac-
tions for 2022.             8a.         8b.   
Enter the amounts from lines 8a and 8b on Schedule OR-FIA-
COMP, Base year 2022, Computation A or B, lines 1a and 1b.

Full-year return filed for 2022

1. 2022 taxable income, not limited to $0. 1.         
2. 2022 capital loss deduction from fed-
eral Schedule D, line 21, as a positive 
amount.                                 2.            
3. Capital loss carryover from 2022 to 
2023 as a positive amount.              3.            
4. Add lines 1, 2, and 3.
                                        4.      
5. Net loss from 2022 federal Schedule 
D, line 16, as a positive amount.
                                        5.            
6. Line 4 minus line 5.
                                        6.            
7. NOL for 2022, as a positive amount, 
or if no NOL for 2022, unused portion 
of NOLD carried to 2022, if any, car-
ried over to tax years after 2022, as a 
positive amount.                        7.            
8. Line 6 plus line 7. This is your FIA 
taxable income for 2022.                8.            
Enter the amount from line 8 on Schedule OR-FIA-COMP, 
Base year 2022, Computation C, line 1.

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