Updates to 2025 Instructions for Form 4626 to include additional interim guidance regarding the application of the Corporate Alternative Minimum Tax

 

On page 3, the following paragraph is added above “Statement of Rules Applied.”

Notice 2026-7 provides interim guidance regarding the application of the CAMT under sections 55, 56A, and 59. The interim guidance: (i) modifies certain interim guidance provided in Notice 2025-49; (ii) addresses an adjustment to AFSI for tax deductible repairs with respect to section 168 property; (iii) addresses an adjustment to AFSI for section 197 amortization attributable to certain intangibles acquired in certain transactions; (iv) addresses an adjustment to AFSI for amortization of domestic research or experimental expenditures; (v) addresses an adjustment to AFSI for certain production costs attributable to film, television, live theatrical, and sound recording productions; (vi) addresses an adjustment to AFSI for certain low acquisition cost tangible property treated as materials and supplies; (vii) clarifies the interim guidance for financially troubled companies provided in Notice 2025-46; (viii) modifies the anti-abuse rule in Proposed Regulations section 1.56A-4 that would apply to certain covered asset transactions; (ix) addresses certain CAMT consequences of transactions involving intangible property subject to section 367(d); and (x) provides the applicability dates and requirements for reliance. Notice 2026-7 also describes statements that must be attached to federal income tax returns for CAMT entities making certain AFSI adjustments provided in the interim guidance.