Like many tax credit managers, you may have considered setting house rules aimed specifically at children. Your motive may be concern for children’s safety around specific hazards like swimming pools. Or if you’ve been getting noise complaints from residents or have recently found...
As an owner or manager, it’s important to keep your designated low-income units qualified as such under tax credit rules. Unless a site is deep rent skewed, a LIHTC site must have either 20 percent of the units rent-restricted and occupied by a household with income at or below 50 percent...
When calculating household income at initial certifications and at annual recertifications, if you have a mixed-income site, you must properly count the household’s assets. But this can be tricky if you’re not familiar with HUD’s rules.
The applicable fraction is the percentage of rental units in a building that qualify as low-income units. Specifically, under Internal Revenue Code (IRC) §42(c)(1)(B), the applicable fraction is the smaller of the unit fraction or the floor space fraction. IRC §42(c)(1)(C) defines...
As the holiday season approaches, we know that audit season isn’t far behind. Taking steps now to review management practices, household files, and preparing annual forms will help ensure a strong start to the upcoming year and an efficient audit process.
On Nov. 2, House Republicans unveiled a sweeping tax reform legislation called the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (H.R. 1). It was introduced by Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady. Although its provisions are generally in line with the House Republican Blueprint for Tax Reform released in June...
When a qualified low-income household moves out of a unit at your tax credit site, you might not have another qualified household immediately available to move into the unit. And finding qualified households for your site can be difficult and take time. For these reasons, you may have units that...
At this time of year, as the academic year starts, it may be a good time to review student eligibility restrictions for the LIHTC program. You probably know that, in general, you can’t rent a low-income unit at your tax credit site to a household that’s made up of full-time students...
If you’re like many tax credit managers, you might want to set aside a model unit that you can show to prospects to help “sell” your site. But before you set aside any unit at your tax credit site for this purpose, you must consider what effect your action may have on your...
Generally speaking, if you manage a mixed-income site, you and your staff must recertify all low-income households at the site each year. Failing to meet recertification requirements is a leading cause of noncompliance that can cost the owner its tax credits. But recertification can be a time-...
To calculate and verify household income at tax credit sites, owners and managers are required to follow the rules set out in HUD Handbook 4350.3 (Occupancy Requirements of Subsidized Multifamily Housing Programs). Specifically, sections 1 and 3 of Chapter 5 (Determining Income and Calculating...
