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Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service Release Final Rule on Section 45Q Credit Regulations | U.S. Depart…

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service Release
Final Rule on Section 45Q Credit Regulations
January 6, 2021

WASHINGTON – Today, the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued
final regulations

regarding the section 45Q credit for qualified carbon oxide sequestration

using carbon capture equipment placed in service on or a er the date of the enactment of
the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018.
“These final regulations provide taxpayers and the American energy sector with needed
clarity on utilizing the section 45Q credit,” said Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin. “These
regulations are an essential step toward harnessing the entrepreneurial spirit of Americans
to further modernize the American energy sector, while ensuring American energy producers
maintain their competitive edge around the world.”
These final regulations provide procedures to determine adequate security measures for the
geological storage of qualified carbon oxide, exceptions to the general rule for determining
to whom the credit is attributable, procedures for a taxpayer to make an election to allow
third-party taxpayers to claim the credit, the definition of carbon capture equipment, and
standards for measuring utilization of qualified carbon oxide.
In addition, the final regulations allow smaller carbon capture facilities to be aggregated into
one project for purposes of claiming the credit when certain factors are present, such as
common ownership and location; as well as provide guidance on recapture, including
introducing a recapture period of 3-years. Under these rules, credits must be repaid if
previously sequestered carbon oxide leaks into the atmosphere during a three-year period
a er the initial storage or injection.
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