Department of Taxation and Finance
Instructions for Form CT-662 Child Care Creation and Expansion Credit
CT-662-I
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General information
The child care creation and expansion credit is available to businesses that operate in New York State and have created or expanded child care seats, directly or through a third party, for their employees on or after April 1, 2023, and before January 1, 2025.
To claim the credit, you must submit a completed application to the Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS). If your application is approved, OCFS will issue a certificate of tax credit providing the amount of tax credit available to claim. OCFS will make all determinations regarding eligibility.
For more information about the child care creation and expansion credit, visit the OCFS website at ocfs.ny.gov/main/.
Eligibility
To be eligible for this credit, you must meet the following requirements:
- you are subject to tax under Tax Law Article 9-A, 22, or 33;
- you have received a certificate of tax credit or a share of the credit listed on the certificate issued by OCFS.
Definitions
Child care program means a child day care for which a license or registration to operate such program has been issued by OCFS pursuant to Social Services Law § 390.
Child care seats means the maximum number of children to be allowed on the premises of a child care program at any time that such program is in operation as specified on the license or registration issued for such program by OCFS.
Created child care means the making available of child care seats in a child care program by a business entity, directly or through a third party, for employees of such business entity, where such child care program was not available prior to April 1, 2023, provided that the costs imposed on such employees for such child care program do not exceed 40% (0.4) of the child care rate.
Expanded child care means the increase in the number of child care seats in a child care program made available by a business entity, directly or through a third party, for employees of such business entity, provided that such increase requires a new or amended license or registration issued by OCFS pursuant to Social Services Law § 390 on or after April 1, 2023, and that the costs imposed on such employees for such child care program do not exceed 40% (0.4) of the child care rate.
Child care rate means the weekly child care subsidy market rates, based on the eightieth percentile of the 2021-2022 New York State child care market rate survey, for infant and toddler care provided by a licensed or registered child care program, as reflected in the 2022 child care market rate survey report published by OCFS in compliance with the code of federal regulations, title 45, § 98.45.
Service year means the 12 -month period, or portion thereof, beginning on January 1 and ending on December 31.
Credit details
The credit is limited to 25 infant and toddler child care seats per tax year.
The credit is equal to the sum of:
- the product of the number of infant child care seats that have been created or expanded and 20% (0.2) of the child care rate for such infant child care seats; and
- the product of the number of toddler child care seats that have been created or expanded and 20% (0.2) of the child care rate for such toddler child care seats.
Note: The credit amount may be reduced as a result of an allocation of available funds pursuant to Social Services Law § 394-e.
Do not include any expense or cost, paid or incurred, to calculate this credit that you used to calculate any other tax credit.
The credit may not reduce the tax due below the fixed dollar minimum tax under Article 9-A or the minimum tax under Article 33.
If you do not use the full amount of the credit against your tax liability this year, you may request a refund or apply the overpayment to next year’s tax. However, the Tax Department will not pay interest on the refund or overpayment.
You are required to recapture any previous credit due to a revocation of a certificate of tax credit. See Schedule D.
You may not apply this credit to the metropolitan transportation business tax (MTA surcharge) under Article 9-A or 33.
How to claim the credit
Claim the tax credit in the taxable year that includes the last day of the service year for which the credit is calculated. You can find the service year on the certificate of tax credit OCFS issued to your business.
New York S corporations: You must calculate the credit and file this form with Form CT-3-S, New York S Corporation Franchise Tax Return. However, the S corporation may not use the credit against its own tax liability. Instead, the S corporation must pass the credit through to its shareholders to use against their personal income tax liabilities on their New York State personal income tax returns.
Combined filers: A taxpayer filing as a member of a combined group may claim the credit, which is computed on a separate basis but applied against the combined tax.
Individuals: If you are an individual partner in a partnership (including members of a limited liability company treated as a partnership for federal tax purposes), or a shareholder of an S corporation, and you wish to claim the child care creation and expansion credit, use Form IT-662, Child Care Creation and Expansion Credit. Do not file Form CT-662.
Line instructions
Line A: Mark an X in the appropriate box to determine the parts of this form you need to complete. If you are claiming this credit both as a corporation that earned the credit and as a corporate partner receiving a share of the credit, mark an X in the Yes box and complete all appropriate schedules on one Form CT-662.
Lines B through F: If you do not enter the correct information, your credit may be denied. Partners must get this information from their partnership. Retain a copy of your certificate and be prepared to produce a copy upon request by the Tax Department.
Additional forms: If you have more entries than will fit on the lines provided in Schedules A, B, and D, submit additional Forms CT-662, completing only the necessary schedules. Include your name and taxpayer identification number on each form. On the indicated lines of the first Form CT-662, include the totals from all additional Forms CT-662. Place the extra forms behind the first Form CT-662 and submit them with your return.
Schedule A: Computation of credit
To complete this schedule, use the information from the certificate of tax credit you received from OCFS. The amount entered cannot exceed the amount shown on the certificate of tax credit. If needed, see Additional forms.
Schedule B: Partnership information
If you were a partner in a partnership and received a share of the child care creation and expansion credit from that entity, complete this schedule. Enter the name, employer identification number, and certificate number from the certificate of tax credit issued to the partnership, and the credit amount passed through to you from each partnership. Obtain this information from any partnerships allocating the credit to you. If needed, see Additional forms.
Line 5
New York S corporations: Transfer this amount to the applicable line of Form CT-34-SH, New York S Corporation Shareholders’ Information Schedule, and provide your shareholders with their proportionate share of this line. The shareholders will file Form IT-662 to claim this credit on their New York State personal income tax returns.
Schedule C: Computation of credit, used, refunded, or credited as an overpayment to the next tax year
| If you filed | Enter on line 6 any net recapture of other tax credits, plus the amount from |
Enter on line 9 the minimum tax below |
|---|---|---|
| Form CT-3 | Part 2, line 2 | Part 2, line 1c amount |
| Form CT-3-A | Part 2, line 2 | Part 2, line 1c amount |
| Form CT-33 | Line 11 | 250 |
| Form CT-33-A | Line 15 | Line 4 plus Line 12 |
| Form CT-33-NL | Line 5 | 250 |
Line 6: Enter your tax due before credits using the Lines 6 and 9 entries table.
Line 7: If you are claiming more than one tax credit for this year, enter the total amount of credits claimed before applying this credit; otherwise enter 0. You must apply tax credits in a certain order.
Article 9-A taxpayers: Refer to Form CT-600-I, Instructions for Form CT-600, Ordering of Corporation Tax Credits, for the proper ordering of your credits.
All other taxpayers refer to the instructions of their franchise tax return to determine the order of credits that applies.
If you are filing as a member of a combined group, include any amount of tax credits—including the child care creation and expansion credit—claimed by other members of the combined group that you want to apply before this credit.
Line 9: Enter the minimum tax using the Lines 6 and 9 entries table.
Schedule D: Recapture of credit
If OCFS has partially or entirely revoked a previously claimed child care creation and expansion credit you earned directly or from a partnership, the amount of credit revoked by OCFS must be added back to your tax for the tax year in which the revocation becomes final.
Enter the certificate number in column A, and the amount of revoked credit in column B. If needed, see Additional forms.
Line 15
Enter this amount as a negative number using a minus sign (-) in the appropriate box of the Summary of tax credits claimed section of your franchise tax return.
New York S corporations: Enter this amount on Form CT-34-SH and provide your shareholders with their proportionate share of this amount. The shareholder will enter this amount on Form IT-662.