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1/19/2024

U.S. Department of the Treasury, IRS Release Guidance to Build out U.S. Clean Vehicle Charging Infrastructure | U.S. …

U.S. Department of the Treasury, IRS Release Guidance to Build
out U.S. Clean Vehicle Charging Infrastructure
January 19, 2024

WASHINGTON – Today the U.S. Department of the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
released additional guidance

under President Bidenʼs Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) to

lower Americansʼ energy bills by providing clarity on eligibility for incentives to install electric
vehicle charging stations and other alternative fuel refueling stations. The Department of
Energy is also releasing a mapping tool today to help households, businesses, or other
organizations considering those investments to find out whether they may be eligible for the
tax credit.
“President Bidenʼs Inflation Reduction Act has been a game changer for American
consumers and automakers. The law has unleashed an investment and manufacturing
boom in the United States unlike any weʼve seen in decades, with companies from
around the world choosing to do business in America and electric vehicle sales
surpassing 1 million for the first time in 2023,” said Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Wally
Adeyemo. “Additional clarity around the lawʼs incentive to build new charging
infrastructure in communities that need it most will help drive continued progress in
2024.”
The Alternative Fuel Vehicle Refueling Property Credit (30C) works in concert with the Inflation
Reduction Actʼs Clean Vehicle Credit and Advanced Manufacturing Production Credit to
encourage clean vehicle adoption, lower costs for consumers, and onshore the entire clean
vehicle supply chain. This incentive provides a credit for up to 30% of the cost of qualified
alternative fuel vehicle refueling property placed in service by the taxpayer.
The credit may be claimed by individuals for home electric vehicle charging and other refueling
equipment and by businesses. The credit with respect to any single item of property is limited
to $100,000 for business property, and $1,000 for personal property. The credit can also be
claimed through “elective pay” (o en called direct pay), meaning that elective pay-eligible
entities such as governments and tax-exempt organizations making investments in EV
infrastructure can benefit.
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U.S. Department of the Treasury, IRS Release Guidance to Build out U.S. Clean Vehicle Charging Infrastructure | U.S. …

While expanding the 30C credit, the IRA added a requirement that qualified property must be
placed in service in an eligible census tract. An eligible census tract is any population census
tract that is a low-income community or that is not an urban area.
Todayʼs notice announces an intent to propose regulations to define eligible census tract and
includes two appendices that provide the list of eligible census tracts. Low-income
community census tracts follow the definition provided for purposes of the new markets tax
credit. Non-urban census tracts would be those tracts within which at least 10% of the census
blocks are outside of urban areas. See Appendix A

and Appendix B

for eligible census

tracts.
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