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Notice 2025-32, 2025-27 I.R.B. 1
2025 Section 43 Inflation Adjustment
Section 43(a) of the Internal Revenue Code provides that for purposes of section 38, the enhanced oil recovery credit for any taxable year is an amount equal to 15 percent of the taxpayer’s qualified enhanced oil recovery costs for such taxable year.
Section 43(b)(1) provides that the amount of the credit determined under subsection (a) for any taxable year shall be reduced by an amount which bears the same ratio to the amount of such credit (determined without regard to this paragraph) as — (A) the amount by which the reference price for the calendar year preceding the calendar year in which the taxable years begins exceeds $28, bears to (B) $6.
Section 43(b)(3)(B) requires the Secretary to publish an inflation adjustment factor. The enhanced oil recovery credit under § 43 for any taxable year is reduced if the “reference price,” determined under § 45K(d)(2)(C), for the calendar year preceding the calendar year in which the taxable year begins is greater than $28 multiplied by the inflation adjustment factor for the current calendar year.
The term “inflation adjustment factor” means, with respect to any calendar year, a fraction the numerator of which is the GNP implicit price deflator for the preceding calendar year and the denominator of which is the GNP implicit price deflator for 1990.
Because the reference price for the 2024 calendar year ($74.48) exceeds $28 multiplied by the inflation adjustment factor for the 2025 calendar year ($28 multiplied by 2.1115 = $59.12) by $15.36, the enhanced oil recovery credit for qualified costs paid or incurred in 2025 is phased out completely.
Table 1 contains the GNP implicit price deflator used for the 2024 calendar year, as well as the previously published GNP implicit price deflators used for the 1991 through 2023 calendar years.
Notice 2025-32 TABLE 1 GNP IMPLICIT PRICE DEFLATORS
Calendar Year
GNP Implicit Price Deflator
1990
112.9
(used for 1991)
1991
117.0
(used for 1992)
1992
120.9
(used for 1993)
1993
124.1
(used for 1994)
1994
126.0
(used for 1995)*
1995
107.5
(used for 1996)
1996
109.7
(used for 1997)**
1997
112.35
(used for 1998)
1998
112.64
(used for 1999)***
1999
104.59
(used for 2000)
2000
106.89
(used for 2001)
2001
109.31
(used for 2002)
2002
110.63
(used for 2003)
2003
105.67
(used for 2004)****
2004
108.23
(used for 2005)
2005
112.129
(used for 2006)
2006
116.036
(used for 2007)
2007
119.656
(used for 2008)
2008
122.407
(used for 2009)
2009
109.764
(used for 2010)*****
2010
110.654
(used for 2011)
2011
113.347
(used for 2012)******
2012
115.387
(used for 2013)
2013
106.710
(used for 2014)*******
2014
108.407
(used for 2015)********
2015
109.868
(used for 2016)
2016
111.528
(used for 2017)
2017
113.500
(used for 2018)
2018
110.308
(used for 2019)*********
2019
112.257
(used for 2020)
2020
113.586
(used for 2021)
2021
118.586
(used for 2022)**********
2022
127.194
(used for 2023)
2023
122.179
(used for 2024)***********
2024
125.139
(used for 2025)
* Beginning in 1995, the GNP implicit price deflator was rebased relative to 1992. The 1990 GNP implicit price deflator used to compute the 1996 § 43 inflation adjustment factor is 93.6.
** Beginning in 1997, two digits follow the decimal point in the GNP implicit price deflator. The 1990 GNP price deflator used to compute the 1998 § 43 inflation adjustment factor is 93.63.
*** Beginning in 1999, the GNP implicit price deflator was rebased relative to 1996. The 1990 GNP implicit price deflator used to compute the 2000 § 43 inflation adjustment factor is 86.53.
**** Beginning in 2003, the GNP implicit price deflator was rebased, and the 1990 GNP implicit price deflator used to compute the 2004 § 43 inflation adjustment factor is 81.589.
***** Beginning in 2009, the GNP implicit price deflator was rebased, and the 1990 GNP implicit price deflator used to compute the 2010 § 43 inflation adjustment factor is 72.199.
****** Beginning in 2011, the 1990 GNP implicit price deflator used to compute the 2012 § 43 inflation adjustment factor is 72.260.
******* Beginning in 2013, the GNP implicit price deflator was rebased, and the 1990 GNP implicit price deflator used to compute the 2014 § 43 inflation adjustment factor is 66.803.
******** Beginning in 2014, the 1990 GNP implicit price deflator used to compute the 2015 § 43 inflation adjustment factor is 66.732.
********* Beginning in 2018, the 1990 GNP implicit price deflator used to compute the 2019 § 43 inflation adjustment factor is 63.637.
********** Beginning in 2021, the 1990 GNP implicit price deflator used to compute the 2022 § 43 inflation adjustment factor is 63.604.
*********** Beginning in 2023, the 1990 GNP implicit price deflator used to compute the 2024 § 43 inflation adjustment factor is 59.266.
Table 2 contains the inflation adjustment factor and the phase-out amount for taxable years beginning in the 2025 calendar year as well as the previously published inflation adjustment factors and phase-out amounts for taxable years beginning in the 1991 through 2024 calendar years.
Notice 2025-32 TABLE 2 INFLATION ADJUSTMENT FACTORS AND PHASE-OUT AMOUNTS
Calendar Year
Inflation Adjustment Factor
Phase-out Amount
1991
1.0000
0
1992
1.0363
0
1993
1.0708
0
1994
1.0992
0
1995
1.1160
0
1996
1.1485
0
1997
1.1720
0
1998
1.1999
0
1999
1.2030
0
2000
1.2087
0
2001
1.2353
0
2002
1.2633
0
2003
1.2785
0
2004
1.2952
0
2005
1.3266
0
2006
1.3743
100 percent
2007
1.4222
100 percent
2008
1.4666
100 percent
2009
1.5003
100 percent
2010
1.5203
100 percent
2011
1.5326
100 percent
2012
1.5686
100 percent
2013
1.5968
100 percent
2014
1.5974
100 percent
2015
1.6245
100 percent
2016
1.6464
0
2017
1.6713
0
2018
1.7008
1.069 percent
2019
1.7334
100 percent
2020
1.7640
100 percent
2021
1.7849
0
2022
1.8607
100 percent
2023
1.9998
100 percent
2024
2.0615
100 percent
2025
2.1115
100 percent
DRAFTING INFORMATION
The principal author of this notice is Whitney Brady of the Office of Associate Chief Counsel (Energy, Credits & Excise Tax). For further information regarding this notice, contact Ms. Brady at (202) 317-6853 (not a toll-free number).
History
Notice published in Internal Revenue Bulletin 2025-27, June 30, 2025, at page 1. It states no effective date of its own; this row opens at the bulletin's publication date.
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