Instructions for Form 8995

2025

Instructions for Form 8995

Qualified Business Income Deduction Simplified Computation

Section references are to the Internal Revenue Code unless

otherwise noted.

Future Developments

For the latest information about developments related to Form

8995 and its instructions, such as legislation enacted after they

were published, go to IRS.gov/Form8995.

What’s New

Taxable income limitation adjustments. Taxable income

limitations are adjusted for inflation and increased.

Excludable tip income. Certain tip income may be excluded

when figuring your qualified business income. See Determining

Your Qualified Business Income, later.

General Instructions

Purpose of Form

Use Form 8995 to figure your qualified business income (QBI)

deduction. Individual taxpayers and some trusts and estates

may be entitled to a deduction of up to 20% of their net QBI from

a trade or business, including income from a pass-through entity,

but not from a C corporation, plus 20% of qualified real estate

investment trust (REIT) dividends and qualified publicly traded

partnership (PTP) income. However, your total QBI deduction is

limited to 20% of your taxable income, calculated before the QBI

deduction, minus net capital gain (increased by any qualified

dividends).

Who Can Take the Deduction

Individuals and eligible estates and trusts that have QBI use

Form 8995 to figure the QBI deduction if:

• You have QBI, qualified REIT dividends, or qualified PTP

income or loss (all defined later); and

• Your 2025 taxable income before your QBI deduction is less

than or equal to $394,600 if married filing jointly, and $197,300

for all other returns; and

• You aren’t a patron in a specified agricultural or horticultural

cooperative.

Otherwise, use Form 8995-A, Qualified Business Income

Deduction, to figure your QBI deduction.

S corporations and partnerships. S corporations and

partnerships aren’t eligible for the deduction, but must pass

through to their shareholders or partners the necessary

information on an attachment to Schedule K-1. See the

Instructions for Form 1120-S, U.S. Income Tax Return for an S

Corporation, and Form 1065, U.S. Return of Partnership Income.

Cooperatives. Cooperatives aren’t eligible for the deduction.

Instead, cooperatives must provide the necessary information to

their patrons on Form 1099-PATR or an attachment to help

eligible patrons figure their deduction. Certain agricultural or

horticultural cooperatives may qualify for a deduction under

section 199A(g). See the Instructions for Form 1120-C, U.S.

Income Tax Return for Cooperative Associations, for rules

applicable to agricultural and horticultural cooperatives.

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Estates and trusts. To the extent that a grantor or another

person is treated as owning all or part of a trust or estate, the

owner will compute its QBI deduction for the portion owned as if

section 199A items had been received directly by the owner.

Generally, a non-grantor trust or estate may either claim the QBI

deduction or provide information to their beneficiaries. In

determining the QBI deduction or the information that must be

provided to beneficiaries, the estate or trust allocates section

199A items based on the relative proportion of the estate’s or

trust’s distributable net income (DNI) for the tax year distributed

(or required to be distributed) to the beneficiary or retained by

the estate or trust. If the estate or trust has no DNI for the tax

year, section 199A items are allocated entirely to the estate or

trust.

Although estates and trusts may compute their own QBI

deduction, to the extent section 199A items are allocable to the

estate or trust, section 199A items allocated to beneficiaries

aren’t includible in the estate’s or trust’s QBI deduction

computation. See the Instructions for Form 1041, U.S. Income

Tax Return for Estates and Trusts.

Electing Small Business Trusts (ESBT). An ESBT must

compute the QBI deduction separately for the S and non-S

portions of the trust. The Form 8995 used to compute the S

portion’s QBI deduction must be attached as a PDF to the ESBT

tax worksheet filed with Form 1041. When attached to the ESBT

tax worksheet, the trust must show that the information is

applicable to the S portion only, by writing “ESBT” in the top

margin of the Form 8995. See the Instructions for Form 1041.

Determining Your Qualified Trades or

Businesses

Your qualified trades and businesses include your domestic

trades or businesses for which you’re allowed a deduction for

ordinary and necessary business expenses under section 162.

However, trades or businesses conducted by corporations and

the performance of services as an employee aren’t qualified

trades or businesses. Generally, specified service trades or

businesses (SSTBs) aren’t qualified trades or businesses.

However, all or a part of the SSTB may be a qualified trade or

business if your taxable income is at or below the threshold or

within the phase-in range.

As provided in section 162, an activity qualifies as a trade or

business if your primary purpose for engaging in the activity is for

income or profit and you’re involved in the activity with continuity

and regularity.

For purposes of section 199A, if you own an interest in a

pass-through entity, the trade or business determination is made

at the entity level. Material participation under section 469 isn’t

required to qualify for the QBI deduction. Eligible taxpayers with

income from a trade or business may be entitled to the QBI

deduction if they otherwise satisfy the requirements of section

199A.

The ownership and rental of real property may constitute a

trade or business if it meets the standard described above. Also,

Rev. Proc. 2019-38 provides a safe harbor under which a rental

real estate enterprise will be treated as a trade or business for

purposes of the QBI deduction. Rental real estate that doesn’t

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meet the requirements of the safe harbor may still be treated as

a trade or business for purposes of the QBI deduction if it’s a

section 162 trade or business.

The rental or licensing of property to a commonly controlled

trade or business operated by an individual or a pass-through

entity is considered a trade or business under section 199A.

Services performed as an employee excluded from qualified trades or businesses. The trade or business of

performing services as an employee isn’t a trade or business for

purposes of section 199A. Therefore, any amounts reported on

Form W-2, box 1, other than amounts reported in box 1 if

“Statutory Employee” on Form W-2, box 13, is checked, aren’t

QBI. If you were previously an employee of a business and

continue to provide substantially the same services to that

business after you’re no longer treated as an employee, there is

a presumption that you’re providing services as an employee for

purposes of section 199A for the 3-year period after ceasing to

be an employee. You can rebut this presumption on notice from

the IRS by providing records such as contracts or partnership

agreements that corroborate your status as a nonemployee.

For more information on if you’re an employee or an

independent contractor, see Pub. 15-A, Employer’s

Supplemental Tax Guide, and Pub. 1779, Independent

Contractor or Employee.

SSTBs excluded from your qualified trades or businesses.

An SSTB is generally excluded from the definition of qualified

trade or business.

An SSTB is any trade or business providing services in the

fields of:

• Health;

• Law;

• Accounting;

• Actuarial science;

• Performing arts;

• Consulting;

• Athletics;

• Financial services;

• Brokerage services;

• Investing and investment management;

• Trading or dealing in securities, partnership interests,

commodities; or

• Any trade or business where the principal asset is the

reputation or skill of one or more of its employees or owners, as

demonstrated by:

–Receiving fees, compensation, or other income for

endorsing products or services;

–Licensing or receiving fees, compensation or other income

for the use of taxpayer’s image, likeness, name, signature,

voice, trademark, or any other symbols associated with the

individual’s identity; or

–Receiving fees, compensation, or other income for

appearing at an event or on radio, television, or another

media format.

Exception 1: If your 2025 taxable income before the QBI

deduction is less than or equal to $394,600 if married filing

jointly, and $197,300 for all others, your SSTB is treated as a

qualified trade or business.

Exception 2: If your taxable income before the QBI deduction

is more than $394,600 but not more than $494,600 if married

filing jointly, and is more than $197,300 but not more than

$247,300 for all other returns, an applicable percentage of your

SSTB is treated as a qualified trade or business, you must

complete Schedule A (Form 8995-A).

Aggregation. If you’re engaged in more than one trade or

business, each trade or business is a separate trade or business

for purposes of section 199A. However, you may choose to

aggregate multiple trades or businesses into a single trade or

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business for purposes of figuring your deduction, if you meet the

following requirements.

1. You or a group of persons directly or indirectly own 50%

or more of each trade or business for the majority of the tax year,

including the last day of the tax year, and all trades or

businesses use the same tax year end;

2. None of the trades or businesses are an SSTB; and

3. The trades or businesses meet at least two of the

following factors:

a. They provide products, property, or services that are the

same or that are customarily offered together.

b. They share facilities or share significant centralized

business elements such as personnel, accounting, legal,

manufacturing, purchasing, human resources, or information

technology resources.

c. They are operated in coordination with, or reliance on,

one or more of the businesses in the aggregated group.

If a relevant pass-through entity (RPE) aggregates multiple

trades or businesses, you may not separate the trades or

businesses aggregated by the RPE, but you may add additional

trades or businesses to the aggregation, if the rules above are

met.

If you choose to aggregate multiple trades or businesses,

including or apart from any aggregations made by an RPE,

complete Schedule B (Form 8995-A) before starting Part I of

Form 8995-A. You must attach any RPE aggregation

statement(s) to your Schedule B (Form 8995-A).

If you’re not making an aggregation election and are therefore

not required to file a Schedule B (Form 8995-A), attach your

RPE’s aggregation statement(s) to your Form 8995-A.

Your aggregations must be reported consistently for all

subsequent years, unless there is a significant change in facts

and circumstances that disqualify the aggregation.

Note: You must combine the QBI, W-2 wages, and Unadjusted

Basis Immediately after Acquisition (UBIA) of qualified property

for all aggregated trades or businesses, for purposes of applying

the W-2 wages and UBIA of qualified property limits. However,

these limits won’t apply until your income, before the QBI

deduction, is more than the threshold. If your income is more

than the threshold, you must use Form 8995-A.

Determining Your Qualified Business

Income

Your QBI includes qualified items of income, gain, deduction,

and loss from your trades or businesses that are effectively

connected with the conduct of a trade or business in the United

States. This includes qualified items from partnerships (other

than PTPs), S corporations, sole proprietorships, and certain

estates and trusts that are allowed in calculating your taxable

income for the year.

To figure the total amount of QBI, you must consider all items

that are attributable to the trade or business. This includes, but

isn’t limited to, unreimbursed partnership expenses, business

interest expense, deductible part of self-employment tax,

self-employment health insurance deduction, and contributions

to qualified retirement plans. QBI doesn’t include any of the

following:

• Items that aren’t properly included in income.

• Income that isn’t effectively connected with the conduct of a

trade or business within the United States (go to IRS.gov/ECI).

• Wage income (except “Statutory Employees” where Form

W-2, box 13, is checked).

• Amounts received as reasonable compensation from an S

corporation.

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• Amounts received as guaranteed payments.

• Amounts received as payments by a partner for services other

than in a capacity as a partner.

• Items treated as capital gains or losses under any provision of

the Internal Revenue Code (Code).

• Dividends and dividend equivalents.

• Interest income not properly allocable to a trade or business.

• Commodities transactions or foreign currency gains or losses.

• Income, loss, or deductions from notional principal contracts.

• Annuities (unless received in connection with the trade or

business).

• Qualified REIT dividends.

• Qualified PTP income.

• Tip income under section 224 that is excluded from the net

profit of the trade or business.

See the QBI Flow Chart, later, to figure if an item of income,

gain, deduction, or loss is included in QBI.

Losses or deductions from a qualified trade or business that

are suspended by other provisions of the Internal Revenue Code

are not qualified losses or deductions and, therefore, are not

included in your QBI for the year. Such Code provisions include,

but aren’t limited to, sections 163(j), 179, 461(l), 465, 469,

704(d), and 1366(d). Instead, qualified losses and deductions

are taken into account in the tax year they’re included in

calculating your taxable income.

When losses or deductions are suspended, you must

determine the qualified portion of the losses or deductions that

must be included in QBI in subsequent years when allowed in

calculating your taxable income. In general, losses and

deductions incurred prior to 2018 are not qualified losses or

deductions and are not included in QBI in the year they are

included in calculating taxable income.

If a loss or deduction is partially suspended, only the portion

of the allowed loss or deduction attributable to QBI must be

considered when determining QBI from the trade or business in

the year the loss or deduction is incurred. The portion of the

allowed loss or deduction attributable to QBI is determined by

first calculating the percentage of the total loss attributable to

QBI by dividing the portion of the total loss attributable to QBI by

the overall total loss. The allowed loss or deduction is then

multiplied by this percentage to determine the portion of the

allowed loss or deduction attributable to QBI.

If your trade or business is an SSTB, whether the trade or

business is a qualified trade or business is determined based on

your taxable income in the year the loss or deduction is incurred.

If your taxable income is within the phase-in range in that year,

you must determine and apply the applicable percentage in the

year the loss or deduction was incurred to determine the

qualified portion of the suspended loss or deduction.

Losses and deductions retain their status as either qualified

or non-qualified from year to year while suspended. Therefore,

you must track each category of loss or deduction until the loss

or deduction is no longer suspended. For an example of a

reasonable method to track and compute the amount of

previously disallowed losses or deductions to be included in your

QBI deduction calculation in the year allowed, see Tracking

Losses or Deductions Suspended by Other Provisions, later.

When losses or deductions previously suspended by other

Code provisions are allowed in calculating taxable income, the

qualified portion of the loss or deduction allowed under each

provision is treated as a qualified net loss carryforward from a

separate trade or business when calculating the current year’s

QBI deduction. See Line 3.

Any qualified loss or deduction from an SSTB allowed in

calculating taxable income isn’t included on the Schedule A

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(Form 8995-A) as the applicable percentage was previously

determined and applied in the year the loss or deduction was

incurred and should not be redetermined in the year the loss or

deduction is allowed.

Determining if items included on Schedule K-1 are included in QBI. The amounts reported on your Schedule K-1 as

“QBI/Qualified PTP Items Subject to Taxpayer-Specific

Determinations” from a partnership, S corporation, estate, or

trust aren’t automatically included in your QBI. To figure if the

item of income, gain, deduction, or loss is included in QBI, you

must look to how it’s reported on your federal income tax return.

For example, ordinary business income or loss is generally

included in QBI if it was used in computing your taxable income,

not excluded, suspended, or disallowed under any other section

of the Code. Also, a section 1231 gain or loss is only includible in

QBI if it isn’t capital gain or loss. See the QBI Flow Chart, later, to

figure if an item of income, gain, deduction, or loss is included in

QBI.

Determining if information reported on your Form

1099-PATR is included in QBI. The amounts reported to you

as your share of patronage dividends and similar payments on

Form 1099-PATR aren’t automatically included in your QBI.

Payments may be included in QBI to the extent they are (1)

related to your trade or business, (2) reported to you by the

cooperative as qualified income items on an attachment to Form

1099-PATR, and (3) not payments reported as from an SSTB,

unless your taxable income is at or below the threshold, in which

case payments from SSTBs are included in your QBI.

If you received qualified payments reported to you on Form

1099-PATR from a specified agricultural or horticultural

cooperative, you must reduce your QBI by the patron reduction

and use Form 8995-A to compute your QBI deduction.

Determining if items on Schedule C (Form 1040) are included in QBI. The net gain or loss reported on your Schedule C

(Form 1040) isn’t automatically included in your QBI. See the

QBI Flow Chart, later, to figure if an item of income, gain,

deduction, or loss is included in QBI.

Determining Your Qualified REIT

Dividends and Qualified PTP Income/

Loss

Qualified REIT dividends include any dividends you received

from a REIT held for more than 45 days and for which the

payment isn’t obligated to someone else and that isn’t a capital

gain dividend or qualified dividend, plus your qualified REIT

dividends received from a regulated investment company (RIC).

This amount is reported to you on Form 1099-DIV, line 5.

Qualified PTP income or loss includes your share of qualified

items of income, gain, deduction, and loss from a PTP that is not

treated as a corporation for federal income tax purposes. It may

also include gain or loss recognized on the disposition of your

partnership interest that isn’t treated as a capital gain or loss.

Note: PTP income generated by an SSTB may be limited to the

applicable percentage or excluded if your taxable income

exceeds the threshold, in which case you may need to complete

Part II of Schedule A (Form 8995-A). See the Instructions for

Form 8995-A for more information.

When losses or deductions from a PTP are suspended in the

year incurred, you must determine the qualified portion of the

losses or deductions that must be included as qualified PTP

losses or deductions in subsequent years when allowed in

calculating your taxable income. In general, losses and

deductions that were incurred prior to 2018 are not qualified PTP

losses or deductions and are not included in calculating taxable

income.

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If your PTP is an SSTB, whether the PTP loss is a qualified

loss is determined based on your taxable income in the year the

loss or deduction is incurred. If your taxable income is within the

phase-in range in that year, you must determine and apply the

applicable percentage in the year the loss or deduction was

incurred to determine the qualified portion of the suspended loss

or deduction.

Losses and deductions retain their status as either qualified

or non-qualified from year to year while suspended. Therefore,

you must track each loss or deduction from a PTP until the loss

or deduction is no longer suspended.

When losses or deductions previously suspended by other

Code provisions are allowed in calculating taxable income, the

qualified portion of the loss or deduction allowed for each PTP is

treated as a qualified net loss carryforward from a separate PTP

when calculating the current year’s QBI deduction. See Line 7.

Any qualified PTP loss or deduction from an SSTB allowed in

calculating taxable income isn’t included on the Schedule A

(Form 8995-A) as the applicable percentage was previously

calculated and applied in the year the loss or deduction was

incurred and should not be redetermined in the year the loss or

deduction is allowed.

deductions and must be tracked separately for use when

subsequently allowed in calculating taxable income.

Line 4

If you have a qualified business net loss for the year, you don’t

qualify for the QBI deduction unless you have qualified REIT

dividends or qualified PTP income. The loss will be carried

forward to next year. This carryforward doesn’t affect the

deductibility of the loss for purposes of any other provisions of

the Code.

Line 6

Enter income as a positive number and losses as a negative

number.

Line 7

Specific Instructions

Include here the qualified portion of PTP (loss) carryforward

allowed in calculating taxable income in the current year, even if

the loss was from a PTP that you no longer hold an interest in or

is no longer in existence. Losses and deductions that remain

suspended by other Code provisions are not qualified losses and

deductions and must be tracked separately from any qualified

trade or business losses for use when subsequently allowed in

calculating taxable income.

Line 1

Line 8

Note: If you aggregated trades or businesses, you must attach

Schedule B (Form 8995-A) or similar schedule.

Enter your taxable income figured before any QBI deduction,

computed as follows.

• Form 1040 or 1040-SR filers: Form 1040 or 1040-SR,

line 11a, minus lines 12e and 13b.

• 1040-NR filers: 1040-NR, line 11a, minus lines 12, 13b, and

13c.

• Form 1041 filers: Form 1041, line 17, minus lines 18, 19, and

21.

• Form 1041-N filers: Form 1041-N, line 5, minus lines 12

(except for any QBI that would be reported on line 9).

• Form 990-T filers: Form 990-T, Part I, line 7, minus line 8.

• S-corporation portion of ESBT filers: ESBT Tax Worksheet,

line 5, minus lines 6 through 10.

If you aggregated multiple trades or businesses into a single

business, enter the aggregation group name. For example,

Aggregation 1, 2, 3, etc., instead of entering the business name,

and leave line 1(b) blank.

If you’re relying on the safe harbor contained in Rev. Proc.

2019-38, enter each enterprise as identified on the statement

required for use on the safe harbor. For example, Enterprise 1, 2,

3, etc.

Enter on line 1(b) the employer identification number (EIN). If

you don’t have an EIN, enter your social security number (SSN)

or individual taxpayer identification number (ITIN). If you’re the

sole owner of an LLC that isn’t treated as a separate entity for

federal income tax purposes, enter the EIN given to the LLC. If

you don’t have an EIN, enter the owner's name and tax

identification number.

Enter on line 1(c) the net QBI or (loss) for the trade, business,

or aggregation reported in the corresponding row. Do not include

here any losses or deductions suspended from use in calculating

taxable income in the current year or any portion of qualified

losses or deductions previously suspended by other Code

provisions that are allowed in calculating taxable income in the

current year. For qualified business net (loss) carryforward from

the prior year, see instructions for line 3.

Line 2

If you have more than five trades or businesses, attach a

statement with the name and taxpayer identification number of

the trade(s) or business(es) and include the income and loss

from those trade(s) or business(es) in the total for line 2.

Line 3

Include here the qualified portion of trade or business (loss)

carryforward allowed in calculating taxable income in the current

year, even if the loss was from a trade or business that is no

longer in existence. See Determining Your Qualified Business

Income, earlier, and Tracking Losses or Deductions Suspended

by Other Provisions, later. Losses and deductions that remain

suspended by other Code provisions are not qualified losses and

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Any negative amount will be carried forward to the next year.

This carryforward doesn’t affect the deductibility of the loss for

purposes of any other provisions of the Code.

Line 11

Line 12

Enter the amount from your tax return as follows.

• Form 1040, 1040-SR, or 1040-NR, line 3a, plus your net

capital gain. If you’re not required to file Schedule D (Form

1040), your net capital gain is the amount reported on Form

1040, 1040-SR, or 1040-NR, line 7a. If you file Schedule D

(Form 1040), your net capital gain is the smaller of Schedule D

(Form 1040), line 15 or 16, unless line 15 or 16 is zero or less, in

which case nothing is added to the qualified dividends.

• Form 1041, line 2b(2), plus your net capital gain. For estates

or trusts required to file Schedule D (Form 1041), add the

qualified dividends to the smaller of Schedule D (Form 1041),

line 18a(2), or line 19(2), unless either line 18a(2) or 19(2) is zero

or less, in which case nothing is added to the qualified dividends.

• Form 1041-N, line 2b, plus the smaller of Form 1041-N,

Schedule D, line 10 or 11, unless line 10 or 11 is zero or less, in

which case nothing is added to the qualified dividends.

• Form 990-T filers who are trusts, Schedule D (Form 1041), the

smaller of line 18a(2) or 19(2), unless either line 18a(2) or 19(2)

is zero or less, in which case the net capital gain for purposes of

section 199A is zero.

• S-corporation portion of an ESBT, your ESBT Tax Worksheet,

line 2b, plus the smaller of your ESBT’s Schedule D (Form

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1041), line 18a(2) or 19(2) is zero or less, in which case nothing

is added to your qualified dividends.

Line 15

Enter this amount on your Form 1040, 1040-SR, or Form

1040-NR, line 13a; Form 1041, line 20; Form 1041-N, line 9;

Form 990-T, line 9; and S-corporation portion of an ESBT,

line 11.

Line 16

This is the amount to be carried forward to the next year. This

amount will offset QBI in later tax years regardless of whether

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the trade(s) or business(es) that generated the loss is still in

existence. This carryforward doesn’t affect the deductibility of

any loss for purposes of any other provisions of the Code.

Line 17

This amount must be carried forward to next year. This amount

will offset qualified REIT dividends and qualified PTP income in

later tax years regardless of whether the qualified PTP(s) that

generated the loss is still in existence. This carryforward doesn’t

affect the deductibility of any loss for purposes of any other

provisions of the Code.

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QBI Flow Chart

Figure 1. Use this chart to determine if an item of income, gain, deduction, or loss is included in QBI.

1. Is the item effectively connected with the conduct of a trade

or business within the U.S.?

No

Yes

2. Is the item from a trade or business (this includes general

business income and deduction items as well as deductible tax on

self-employment income, self-employed health insurance,

contributions to qualified retirement plans, unreimbursed

partnership expenses, interest expenses for the purchase of the

partnership/S corporation interest/stock)?

No

Yes

3. If the item is from a pass-through entity (partnership, S

corporation, or trust) and the character of the item can’t be

determined at the entity level (section 1231 gains/losses, involuntary

conversions, interest from debt financed distributions, etc.), did you

determine the item to be ordinary (not capital or personal)? Note: If

the item isn’t from a pass-through entity and it doesn’t require a

determination at the investor level, skip this test.

No

Yes

4. Is the item included in figuring your taxable income? Items

disallowed or limited, including the basis, at-risk, passive loss, or

excess business loss rules, aren’t included in QBI until the year

included in taxable income.

No

Yes

5. Is the item treated as a capital gain (loss) or dividend/dividend

equivalent?

Yes

No

6. Is the item interest income other than interest income allocable to

a trade or business? Note: Interest income from an investment of

working capital, reserves, or similar accounts isn’t allocable to a

trade or business.

Yes

No

7. Is the item an annuity, other than an annuity received in

connection with the trade or business?

Yes

No

8. Is the item a commodities transaction, foreign currency gain (loss)

described in section 954(c)(1)(C) or (D), or from a notional principal

contract under section 954(c)(1)(F)?

Yes

No

9. Is the item qualified PTP income (loss)? If “Yes,” it’s not QBI, but

it’s included in the REIT/PTP component of the QBI computation.

Include this item as a qualified item of income, gain, deduction, or

loss from a PTP.

Yes

No

10. Is the item W-2 wage income (except “Statutory Employees”

where Form W-2, box 13, is checked)?

No

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Yes

This item isn’t QBI.

See Figure 2, QBI Flow

Chart (continued).

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QBI Flow Chart (continued)

Figure 2. Use this chart to determine if an item of income, gain, deduction, or loss is included in QBI.

11. Is the item an amount received for reasonable compensation

from an S corporation, an amount received as a guaranteed

payment, a payment received for services other than in a capacity

as a partner under section 707(a), or an amount with respect to

which a deduction is allowable to the taxpayer as a qualified tip

under section 224(a) for the taxable year?

Yes

No

No

12. Is the item related to an SSTB?

Yes

Yes

13. Is your taxable income at or below the threshold?

No

14. Is your taxable income above the threshold and within the

phase-in range? If “Yes,” this item is partially includible in QBI. Use

Form 8995-A, instead, and complete Schedule A (Form 8995-A).

Yes

This item is QBI.

This item isn’t QBI.

No

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Tracking Losses or Deductions

Suspended by Other Provisions

Caution: A worksheet, QBI Loss Tracking Worksheet, is

provided below that can help you track your suspended losses.

Losses and deductions that would be properly includible in QBI,

if such loss or deduction wasn’t suspended (excluded from

taxable income) by other provisions, must be tracked separately

for purposes of determining the future amount includible as

negative QBI. Use as many copies of the worksheet as

necessary to separately track your suspended loss(es) under

each suspending provision.

Specific Instructions

Note: All losses should be entered as a negative number on the

worksheet.

Step 2. If there are any prior year suspended losses allowed

remaining from column C, row 1b, after Step 1, allocate the

remaining prior year suspended losses allowed between QBI

and Non-QBI.

1. For the allocation to QBI, multiply the remaining losses

(after Step 1), up to the total suspended losses reported in

column A, row 1b, by column B, row 1b, and enter this amount in

column J, row 1b.

2. For the allocation to Non-QBI, multiply the remaining

losses (after Step 1), up to the total suspended losses reported

in column A, row 1b, by 100% less the amount in column B, row

1b, and add it to any amount already included in column F, row

1b.

Step 3. See the instructions for columns G, K, H, and L for rows

1a and 1b.

Column A. Total suspended losses in year of disallowance.

For rows 1a through 1g, enter your suspended losses by year

starting with any pre-2018 losses. Additional rows can be added

as needed after row 1g. Allocate these losses between Non-QBI

and QBI in columns E and I. See below.

Prior Year Suspended Losses Allowed in 2019

Note: All pre-2018 losses are allocable to Non-QBI.

Step 5. If there are any prior year suspended losses allowed

remaining from column C, row 1c, after Step 4, allocate the

remaining prior year suspended losses allowed between QBI

and Non-QBI using the FIFO method until each year’s loss has

been reduced to zero.

1. For the allocation to QBI, multiply the remaining losses

(after Step 4), up to the sum of the remaining suspended losses

reported in column H, row 1b, and column L, row 1b, by column

B, row 1b, and enter this amount in column J, row 1c.

2. For the allocation to Non-QBI, multiply the remaining

losses (after Step 4), up to the sum of the remaining suspended

losses reported in column H, row 1b, and column L, row 1b, by

100% less the amount in column B, row 1b, and add it to any

amount already included in column F, row 1c.

3. If any prior year suspended losses allowed remain from

column C, row 1c, after Steps 5(a) and (b), multiply the

remaining losses (after Steps 5(a) and (b)), up to the sum of the

remaining suspended losses reported in column H, row 1c, and

column L, row 1c, by column B, row 1c, and add it to any amount

already included in column J, row 1c.

4. Then, multiply the remaining losses (after Steps 5(a) and

(b)), up to the sum of the remaining suspended losses reported

in column H, row 1c, and column L, row 1c, by 100% less the

amount in column B, row 1c, and add it to any amount already

included in column F, row 1c.

Column E. Non-QBI suspended losses. For rows 1a through

1g, enter suspended losses allocable to Non-QBI into the

appropriate year row (for example, row 1a, pre-2018; row 1b,

2018; row 1c, 2019, etc.). Additional rows can be added as

needed in future years after row 1g.

Column I. QBI suspended losses. For rows 1b through 1g,

enter suspended losses allocable to QBI into the appropriate

year row (for example, row 1b, 2018; row 1c, 2019, etc.).

Additional rows can be added as needed in future years after

row 1g.

Column B. QBI fixed percentage. Divide column I by column

A for each year and enter the percentage in the corresponding

year row.

Column C. Prior year suspended losses allowed. For rows

1b through 1g, enter any prior year suspended losses allowed in

the corresponding row for the year allowed. Additional rows can

be added as needed in future years after row 1g.

Note: The total prior year suspended losses allowed entered in

column C, row 2, can’t exceed the total amount entered in

column A, row 2.

Column F. Non-QBI allocated prior year suspended losses

allowed and column J, QBI allocated prior year suspended

loses allowed. When allocating prior year suspended losses

allowed (column C) between Non-QBI (column F) and QBI

(column J), the First-In-First-Out (FIFO) method must be used.

To apply this rule, prior year suspended losses allowed must first

be allocated to any losses suspended from 2017 and earlier,

until the pre-2018 loss (row 1a) are exhausted. All prior year

suspended losses allowed allocated to pre-2018 years are

Non-QBI. Once all pre-2018 losses have been used, losses will

be allocated based on the QBI Fixed Percentage in column B for

each subsequent year in which losses were suspended.

Prior Year Suspended Losses Allowed in 2018

Note: If column C, row 1b, is zero, skip Step 1 through Step 3.

Step 1. Allocate prior year suspended losses allowed from

column C, row 1b, up to the total suspended losses reported in

column A, row 1a, to column F, row 1b.

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Note: If column C, row 1c, is zero, skip Step 4 through Step 6.

Step 4. Allocate prior year suspended losses allowed from

column C, row 1c, up to the remaining suspended losses

reported in column H, row 1a, to column F, row 1c.

Step 6. See the instructions for columns G, K, H, and L for rows

1a through 1c.

Prior Year Suspended Losses Allowed in 2020 and

Beyond

Repeat Step 4 through Step 6 and adjust, as necessary, for any

prior year suspended losses allowed in column C, row 1d, and

each row thereafter, as applicable.

Additional year rows and columns may be added as needed

in future years.

Columns G and K. Utilized “20XX.” Use these columns to

show how the allocated prior year suspended losses allowed in

columns F and J are utilized each year. For example, the loss

reported in column F for row 1b must tie to the amount reported

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in column G(i), row 2; and the loss reported in column F for row

1c must tie to the amount reported in column G(ii), row 2, etc.

Column H. Remaining suspended losses. For each row, take

the amount in column E less the amounts utilized in columns G(i)

through G(vii). This amount can’t be more than zero.

Column L. Remaining suspended losses. For each row, take

the amount in column I less the amounts utilized in columns K(i)

through K(vii). This amount can’t be more than zero.

Column D. Allowed losses limited by other Code sections.

When a prior year suspended loss allowed under one Code

section is subsequently limited by another Code section, this

loss shouldn’t be included in the QBI calculation until the loss is

allowed in the computation of taxable income. Instead, that loss

is added to the total suspended losses in the year of

disallowance under the new limiting Code section for

continuation of its suspension. This column, along with row 3,

addresses how to account for such losses.

In column D, enter the amount of any prior year suspended

losses allowed under this Code section, but subsequently

disallowed under another Code section on the row for the year

the loss was allowed under this Code section. These amounts

will be allocated between Non-QBI and QBI in columns G and K

for the corresponding year. See row 3 below.

Row 3. Allocation of allowed losses limited by other Code

sections. To allocate the allowed losses limited by other Code

sections between QBI and Non-QBI, start with QBI for the 2018

row. Take column K(i), row 2, divided by the sum of column K(i),

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row 2, plus column G(i), row 2, multiplied by column D, row 1b,

and enter this amount in column K(i), row 3. Written as a formula:

column K(i), row 3 = column D, row 1b x (column K(i), row 2 ÷

(column K(i), row 2 + column G(i), row 2)).

Next, compute the amount for Non-QBI for the 2018 row. Take

column G(i), row 2, divided by the sum of column G(i), row 2 +

column K(i), row 2, multiplied by column D, row 1b, and enter this

amount in column G(i), row 3. Written as a formula: column K(i),

row 3 = column D, row 1b x (column G(i), row 2 ÷ (column G(i),

row 2 + column K(i), row 2)).

Continue the computation for columns K(ii) and G(ii) through

K(vi) and G(vi), multiply the percentage times the amount in

column D, row 1c, for 2019; column D, row 1d, for 2020; column

D, row 1e, for 2021; column D, row 1f, for 2022; and column D,

row 1g, for 2023.

For tax years after 2023 add additional rows and columns as

needed. Add additional lines after Line 1h as needed utilizing the

same naming, numbering, and computation format as lines 1(a)

through 2(g). Add additional columns after G(vi) and K(vi) as

needed utilizing the same naming, numbering, and computation

format as columns G(i) through G(vi) and K(i) through K(vi),

respectively.

Row 4. Total prior year suspended losses allowed that

must be included in QBI. The amount reported in columns K(i)

through K(vii) for row 4 equals the loss amount that must be

included in your current year QBI, respectively for each year, as

a loss from a separate trade or business.

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Keep for Your Records

QBI Loss Tracking Worksheet

Use this worksheet to track losses or deductions suspended by other provisions and attributable to QBI using the FIFO method.

Code

Part I

[Enter the Code section limiting your loss.]

Suspended & Allowed Losses

A. Total suspended

losses in year

of disallowance

1a. Pre-2018

b.

2018

c.

2019

d.

2020

e.

2021

f.

2022

g.

2023

h.

20XX

2.

Total

Part II

B. QBI fixed percentage

C. Prior year

suspended

losses allowed

D. Allowed losses

limited by other

Code sections

0.00 %

%

%

%

%

%

%

%

Non-QBI Suspended and Allowed Losses

Allocable to Non-QBI

F. Allocated

E.

prior year

Suspended suspended

losses

losses

allowed

G(i).

Utilized

2018

G(ii).

Utilized

2019

G(iii).

Utilized

2020

G(iv).

Utilized

2021

G(v).

Utilized

2022

G(vi).

Utilized

2023

G(vii).

Utilized

20XX

H.

Remaining

suspended

losses

K(iii).

Utilized

2020

K(iv).

Utilized

2021

K(v).

Utilized

2022

K(vi).

Utilized

2023

K(vii).

Utilized

20XX

L.

Remaining

suspended

losses

1a. Pre-2018

b.

2018

c.

2019

d.

2020

e.

2021

f.

2022

g.

2023

h.

20XX

2.

Total

3. Allocation of allowed losses limited

by other Code sections . . .

Part III

QBI Suspended and Allowed Losses

Allocable to QBI

J. Allocated

I.

prior year

Suspended suspended

losses

losses

allowed

K(i).

Utilized

2018

K(ii).

Utilized

2019

1a. Pre-2018

b.

2018

c.

2019

d.

2020

e.

2021

f.

2022

g.

2023

h.

20XX

2.

Total

3. Allocation of allowed losses limited

by other Code sections . . .

4. Total prior year suspended losses

allowed that must be included in

QBI . . . . . . . . .

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