Corporate Foreign Tax Credit, Tax Year 2010 One Sheet PDF What is the Corporate Foreign Tax Credit? The corporate foreign tax credit is a set of provisions designed by Congress to eliminate potential double taxation on the foreign-source income of U.S. corporations. Double taxation occurs when an item of income is taxed by both the United States, as the corporation's country of residence, as well as by the country where the income was generated. The current provisions allow U.S. businesses to credit their foreign taxes paid, accrued, or deemed paid against their U.S. income tax liability, subject to limitations that prevent taxpayers from using taxes paid in a country with a higher tax rate than the U.S. to offset their tax liability on U.S. income. Corporations are required to calculate this credit separately for different income categories to prevent taxpayers from combining income that is traditionally taxed at low rates, such as dividend or interest income, with income that is typically taxed at higher rates, such as active business income. The corporate foreign tax credit is reported on Form 1118, Foreign Tax Credit - Corporations. For information about selected terms and concepts and a description of the data sources and limitations, please visit Corporate Foreign Tax Credit Study Metadata. Statistical Tables SOI Bulletin Articles Archive Statistical Tables The following tables are available as Microsoft Excel® files. A free Excel viewer is available for download, if needed. U.S. Corporation Income Tax Returns with a Foreign Tax Credit Table 1 Data Presented: Total Assets, Income, Taxes, and Credits, and Foreign Income, Deductions, and Taxes Classified by: Major and selected minor industry Table 1.1 Data Presented: Returns with Income in Excess Credit Position: Foreign Income, Deductions, and Taxes for Tax Year 2010 only Classified by: Major and selected minor industry Table 1.2 Data Presented: Returns with Income in Excess Limitation Position: Foreign Income, Deductions, and Taxes for Tax Year 2010 only Classified by: Major and selected minor industry Table 2 Discontinued* Data Presented: Foreign Income, Deductions, and Taxes Classified by: Industrial sector and by type of foreign income for which separate credit was computed *Note: Tax Year 2006 is the last year published for this table. Table 2 Data Presented: Foreign Income, Deductions, and Taxes Classified by: Selected country to which foreign taxes were paid *Note: Listed as 'Table 3' prior to Tax Year 2006. SOI Bulletin Articles The following are available as PDF files. A free Adobe® Reader is available for download, if needed. Corporate Foreign Tax Credit 2013 PDF 2012 PDF 2011 PDF 2010 PDF 2009 PDF 2008 PDF 2007 PDF 2006 PDF 2005 PDF 2004 PDF 2003 PDF 2002 PDF 2001 PDF 2000 PDF 1999 PDF 1998 PDF 1997 PDF 1996 PDF 1995 XLS 1994 PDF Statistics of Income Studies of International Income and Taxes Archives Foreign Tax Credit, Claimed on Corporation Income Tax Returns