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Taxable income limitations are adjusted for inflation and increased.  \nExcludable tip income. Certain tip income may be excluded when figuring your qualified business income. See Determining Your Qualified Business Income, later.  \nGeneral Instructions Purpose of Form  \nUse Form 8995 to figure your qualified business income (QBI) deduction. Individual taxpayers and some trusts and estates may be entitled to a deduction of up to 20% of their net QBI from a trade or business, including income from a pass-through entity, but not from a C corporation, plus 20% of qualified real estate investment trust (REIT) dividends and qualified publicly traded partnership (PTP) income. However, your total QBI deduction is limited to 20% of your taxable income, calculated before the QBI deduction, minus net capital gain (increased by any qualified dividends) .  \nWho Can Take the Deduction  \nIndividuals and eligible estates and trusts that have QBI use Form 8995 to figure the QBI deduction if:  \n• You have QBI, qualified REIT dividends, or qualified PTP income or loss (all defined later); and  \n• Your 2025 taxable income before your QBI deduction is less than or equal to $394,600 if married filing jointly, and $197,300 for all other returns; and  \n• You aren’t a patron in a specified agricultural or horticultural cooperative.  \nOtherwise, use Form 8995-A, Qualified Business Income Deduction, to figure your QBI deduction.  \nS corporations and partnerships. S corporations and partnerships aren’t eligible for the deduction, but must pass through to their shareholders or partners the necessary information on an attachment to Schedule K-1 . See the Instructions for Form 1120-S, U.S. Income Tax Return for an S Corporation, and Form 1065, U.S. Return of Partnership Income.  \nCooperatives. Cooperatives aren’t eligible for the deduction. Instead, cooperatives must provide the necessary information to their patrons on Form 1099-PATR or an attachment to help eligible patrons figure their deduction. Certain agricultural or horticultural cooperatives may qualify for a deduction under section 199A(g) . See the Instructions for Form 1120-C, U.S. Income Tax Return for Cooperative Associations, for rules applicable to agricultural and horticultural cooperatives.  \nEstates and trusts. To the extent that a grantor or another person is treated as owning all or part of a trust or estate, the owner will compute its QBI deduction for the portion owned as if section 199A items had been received directly by the owner. Generally, a non-grantor trust or estate may either claim the QBI deduction or provide information to their beneficiaries. In determining the QBI deduction or the information that must be provided to beneficiaries, the estate or trust allocates section 199A items based on the relative proportion of the estate’s or trust’s distributable net income (DNI) for the tax year distributed (or required to be distributed) to the beneficiary or retained by the estate or trust. If the estate or trust has no DNI for the tax year, section 199A items are allocated entirely to the estate or trust.  \nAlthough estates and trusts may compute their own QBI deduction, to the extent section 199A items are allocable to the estate or trust, section 199A items allocated to beneficiaries aren’t includible in the estate’s or trust’s QBI deduction computation. See the Instructions for Form 1041, U.S. Income Tax Return for Estates and Trusts.  \nElecting Small Business Trusts (ESBT). 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