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Form 8996, Qualified Opportunity Fund

Form 8996 is how a corporation or partnership certifies itself as a qualified opportunity fund and reports each year whether it met the 90 percent investment standard. Fill in the official IRS PDF below and download it.

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What is 8996?

Form 8996, Qualified Opportunity Fund, serves two purposes: it is the self-certification a corporation or partnership files to become a qualified opportunity fund (QOF), and it is the annual report showing whether the fund held at least 90 percent of its assets in qualified opportunity zone property, measured on two testing dates during the year.

A fund that fails the 90 percent standard owes a monthly penalty computed on the form. Later parts of the form report the fund’s investments by opportunity zone census tract.

Who files 8996?

  • Corporations or partnerships electing to self-certify as a qualified opportunity fund
  • Existing QOFs filing the required annual investment standard report
  • Funds that failed the 90 percent asset test and must compute the penalty
  • QOFs reporting the census tracts where their qualified opportunity zone property is located

How to fill out 8996

  1. Complete Part I to indicate whether this is a first-year certification and the month the entity became a QOF.
  2. Enter the value of qualified opportunity zone property held on the two semiannual testing dates in Part II.
  3. Compute the investment standard percentage and, if it is below 90 percent, figure the penalty in Part III.
  4. Report investment amounts by qualified opportunity zone census tract in the remaining parts.
  5. Download the completed PDF and attach it to the fund’s timely filed income tax return, such as Form 1120 or 1065.

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Frequently asked questions

How does an entity become a qualified opportunity fund?

By self-certification. An eligible corporation or partnership organized for investing in qualified opportunity zone property attaches Form 8996 to its timely filed return for the first year. No advance IRS approval is required.

What happens if the fund fails the 90 percent test?

The fund owes a penalty for each month it fails the standard, computed on Form 8996, unless it can show reasonable cause. Failing the test does not automatically end QOF status.