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This information and these forms should ONLY be used if you are working on your Oklahoma state tax return for 2006! In order to use your 2006 Training Tax Credit for 2006 retro-actively (now), you MUST also submit an amended Oklahoma tax return for 2006, after you receive back your approved 2006 Training Tax Credit application from COFT. The Oklahoma Tax Commission allows you to go back three years for amended returns, so 2009 is your last chance for re-doing 2006.
At that time, ONLY volunteer firefighters in good standing in 2006 with an Oklahoma fire department could participate!
Please include a brief cover note so we know that you intend to submit a 2006 application now.
| For 2006, there were two Training Incentive programs for Oklahoma's volunteer
firefighters: 1) One is a $200 Training Tax Credit... - for any volunteer firefighter who is personally applying for the first time in 2006!! - for those volunteer firefighters who had not yet completed and were still working on all the training sessions |
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| 2) Another is a $400 Training Tax Credit... - used by those volunteer firefighters: a) who were volunteer members in good standing of an Oklahoma fire department in 2006 AND b) who were previously approved for and who used their $200 Training Tax Credit in 2005 AND c) who had finished either their VFFP training program by December 31 of 2006 OR their Fire Fighter I [FFI] training program by December 31 of 2006 OR their Fire Fighter II [FFII] training program by December 31 of 2006 AND d) who had taken approved Homeland Security-related training by December 31 of 2006 PLUS you must take 6 points of general firefighter training by December 31 of 2006 All the criteria above must be met OR else you would still stay with the $200 Training Tax Credit for Tax Year 2006. |
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this section, you will find all the forms you need to fill out: - 2006 Form 1A for $200 Training Tax Credit - 2006 Form 1B for $400 Training Tax Credit - 2006 Attachment A (if you use in-house training) - 2006 Equivalency Charts (Starting in 2006, specific points were assigned to each course since the number of classroom hours varied)
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If you need your Fire Department's official Identification
Number which is issued by the State Fire Marshal... OR If you need your Sub-State Planning District Number (which relates to your Rural Fire Coordinator)...PRESS   |
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Download 2006 Form 1B for the $400 Tax
Credit
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Download 2006 Attachment A for In-House
Training
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2006
Equivalency
Charts give the details on "POINTS" |
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Explanation of
EQUIVALENCY TABLES / CHARTS for Tax Year
2006
Training sessions and classes offered by different training providers
may
sometimes
be assigned different time designations for credit hours.
Therefore, in order to make the application process more understandable
and
more consistent, equivalency tables have been developed to clarify how
much
each specific class will count towards the training tax
credit.
On the actual
Form 1A and 1B, the quantities are referred to as “points” to minimize
confusion.
There are Point Equivalency Charts for 2006:
- the Volunteer Fire Fighter Practices [VFFP] program
- the Fire Fighter I [FFI] program
- some NEW optional courses on various topics
Here is the 2006 Point Equivalency Chart for Volunteer Fire Fighter
Practices......
which appears on the 2006 Equivalency Charts DOWNLOAD above.
DATED
AUGUST
30, 2006
Here is the 2006 Point
Equivalency
Chart for the Fire Fighter I program.....
which appears on the 2006
Equivalency
Charts DOWNLOAD above.
DATED
AUGUST
30, 2006
NEW for 2006 Point
Equivalency
Chart on various additional topics.....
Effective July 28 of 2006, COFT was given discretion
to adjust eligible training to meet the ever-evolving
needs
of the fire service. Several categories of eligible training
classes
were added for 2006 to encourage Oklahoma firefighters
to be better prepared to protect our citizens and their
communities.
So that firefighters would still work towards completion
of VFFP or FFI program, only HALF of your required
general firefighter training points
in any year may come from the yellow chart below:
Here is the 2006 Point
Equivalency
Chart for optional additional training
which was approved to count towards
the 2006 General Firefighting Training Coursework for use
on either the $200 Tax Credit on 2006 Form 1A
or the new $400 Tax Credit on 2006 Form 1B...
This also appears in the 2006 Equivalency Charts DOWNLOAD above!
DATED
AUGUST
30, 2006
Recognizing the need for advance planning for scheduling training
sessions,
the Training Point Equivalencies listed here were eligible for Tax
Year
2006...
and they remained eligible for Tax Year 2007 (more were added).
(Remember
firefighters
need to take the courses for General Firefighter Training
during the calendar year for which they are applying - - except,
of
course,
for someone’s personal first year when eligible training from the
current
year
plus eligible training from previous years are both considered.)
COFT is constantly reviewing the evolving needs of the fire service
per its legislated mandates. Additional optional training for the purpose
of Training Tax Credit Program may be approved as eligible
and will be
posted here on our COFT website plus other organizations' websites.
It is not anticipated any of these training sessions would be removed
from eligibility. But if so, then ample advance notice would be given.
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