Line 2 — Employer Transit Pass Credit (Schedule ETP)
If you purchase transit passes to give or resell to your employees, you may be eligible for this credit. To qualify:
• The transit pass must be a pass, token, farecard, voucher, or similar item entitling a person to transportation at regular or reduced prices.
• The passes must be used in Minnesota.
• The transportation must be provided by either of the following:
• A public or privately-owned mass transit facility
• A person in the business of transporting people for compensation or hire. The vehicle must have seating capacity for at least six adults,
not including the driver.
The credit is equal to 30 percent of the dierence between the price you pay for the passes and the price you charge employees.
If you qualify, complete Schedule ETP, Employer Transit Pass Credit. Enter the credit amount on line 2 of Schedule M1C, and include both
schedules when you le Form M1. Include any credits reported to you on any Schedule KPI, KS, or KF you received.
Line 3 — SEED Capital Investment Credit
If you invest in a qualied business in Breckenridge, Dilworth, East Grand Forks, Moorhead, or Ortonville, and the buness has been certied
by the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) as qualifying for the SEED Capital Investment Program,
you may qualify for this credit. You may carry the credit forward for up to four years.
Enter the amount from the credit certicate you received from DEED. Include the credit certicate and Schedule M1C when you le
Form M1.
Line 4 — Educaon Savings Account Contribuon Credit
If you contributed to a qualied education savings account in 2019, you may be eligible for a nonrefundable credit. Complete Schedule
M1529, and enter the credit on line 4 of Schedule M1C. Include both schedules with your Form M1.
You are not eligible for this credit if you claimed the education savings account subtraction.
Line 5 — Credit for Aaining Master’s Degree in Teacher’s Licensure Field
If you were a licensed teacher who completed a master’s degree program in a core content area that you began after June 30, 2017, you may
be eligible for a nonrefundable credit. Complete Schedule M1CMD, Credit for Attaining Master’s Degree in Teacher’s Licensure Field, and
enter the credit on line 5 of Schedule M1C. Include both schedules with your return.
Line 6 — Student Loan Credit
If you were a full-year or part-year resident of Minnesota in 2019 and you made eligible loan payments on your own qualied student loans
in 2019, you may be eligible for a credit against tax if you had taxable earned income. Complete Schedule M1SLC, Student Loan Credit, and
enter your credit from the schedule on line 6 of Schedule M1C. Include both schedules with your return.
Line 7 — Beginning Farmer Management Credit
If you received a credit certicate from the Minnesota Rural Finance Authority for enrolling in a management class, enter the certicate
number in the space provided and credit amount on line 7. You may carry the unused credit forward for up to 3 years after the tax year it is
generated.
Line 8 — Tax Credit for Owners of Agricultural Assets
If you received a credit certicate from the Minnesota Rural Finance Authority for selling or leasing agricultural assets to a beginning farmer,
enter the certicate number in the space provided and credit amount on line 8.
If you received a certicate as an individual, and from a Partnership or S-Corporation, enter the certicate number for the certicate you
received as an individual. If you received more than one certicate from an entity, but not as an individual, enter each certicate number on
the spaces provided. If you received more than three certicates, provide an attachment with a list of the additional certicate numbers.
You may carry the unused credit forward for up to 15 years after the tax year it is generated.
Line 9 — Credit for Increasing Research Acvies
Include the amounts reported you on:
• Schedule KS, line 17
• Schedule KPI, line 17
• Schedule KF, line 24
Attach the appropriate schedule when you le your return.
You may carry the unused credit forward for up to 15 years after the tax year it is generated.
Line 10 - Carryforward of prior year Beginning Farmer Management Credit
If you have a carryforward of one or more prior year Beginning Farmer Management Credits, enter the certicate number for each credit.
Next to each certicate number, enter the amount you are claiming for the current year. On line 10, enter the total carryforward amount for all
credits you are claiming in the current year.
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