Department of Taxation and Finance

Instructions for Form CT-661 Farm Employer Overtime Credit

(including instructions for Form CT-661-ATT)

CT-661-I

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General information

The farm employer overtime credit is available to farmers who paid overtime to farm employees. 

Eligible taxpayers may request an advance payment for the portion of the credit allowed from January 1 to July 31. For more information, visit www.tax.ny.gov (search: overtime).

Eligibility

You are eligible for this credit if you or your business:

• is subject to tax under Tax Law Article 9-A;
• is a farm employer; and
• employs eligible farm employees that you paid eligible overtime directly (or indirectly through a qualified Professional Employer Organization (PEO) and you received a certificate from the Department of Agriculture and Markets).

Credit calculation

• The credit amount is 118% (1.18) of the eligible overtime hours worked multiplied by the difference of the employees’ regular rate of pay and their overtime rate of pay.
• Do not use any farm employees used in the calculation of the farm employer overtime credit to claim any other tax credit except for on Form CT-647, Farm Workforce Retention Credit.
• If you received an advance payment for this tax year that you are no longer eligible for, you must repay the amount you received.
• You cannot reduce your tax to less than the fixed dollar minimum tax due under Article 9-A or apply it against the metropolitan transportation business tax (MTA surcharge).
• If you do not use the full amount of the credit against your tax liability this year, you may request a refund or apply the overpayment to next year’s tax. The Tax Department will not pay interest on the refund or overpayment.

Definitions

A farm employer is a corporation (including a New York S corporation), a sole proprietorship, a limited liability company (LLC), or a partnership that is an eligible farmer.

An eligible farmer is a taxpayer whose federal gross income from farming for the tax year is at least two-thirds of excess federal gross income.

Excess federal gross income is the amount of federal gross income from all sources for the tax year in excess of $30,000.

An eligible farm employee is an individual who meets the definition of a farm laborer under Labor Law § 2, who is employed by a farm employer in New York State.

An eligible farm employee excludes:

• A general executive officer of the farm employer, or
• any employee that is not engaged in farming activity on qualified agricultural property if more than 50% of your federal gross income from farming is from the sale of wine or cider.

Qualified agricultural property means:

• land located in this state which is used in agricultural production;
• land improvements, structures, and buildings (excluding buildings used for the taxpayer’s residential purpose) located on such land which are used or occupied to carry out such production;
• land set aside or retired under a federal supply management or soil conservation program; or
• land that at the time it becomes subject to a conservation easement, as defined under Tax Law § 606(kk), met the requirements under this paragraph.

Eligible overtime is the total number of hours your employee worked in a week that exceeds the overtime work threshold shown below, not including hours in excess of 60 hours in a calendar week.

Qualified professional employer organization (PEO) means an entity who provides remuneration to or otherwise employs eligible farm employees on behalf of a farm employer.

How to claim the credit

New York S corporations: You must calculate the credit and file Form CT-661, Farm Employer Overtime Credit with Form CT-3-S, New York S Corporation Franchise Tax Return. However, the S corporation may not use the credit against its own tax liability. Instead, the S corporation must pass the credit through to its shareholders to use against their personal income tax liabilities on their New York State personal income tax returns.

Combined filers: A taxpayer filing as a member of a combined group may claim the credit, which is calculated on a separate basis but applied against the combined tax.

Line instructions

Line A: If you or your business were issued a certificate of advance payment from the Department of Agriculture and Markets, and you received an advance payment for this tax year from the Tax Department, mark an X in the Yes box. Enter the certificate number and include the amount on line 6. If you are no longer eligible for the credit, you must add this back to your tax return.

Line B: Mark an X in the appropriate box to determine the parts of this form that you need to complete. If you are claiming this credit both as a corporation that earned the credit and as a corporate partner receiving a share of the credit, mark an X in the Yes box and complete all appropriate schedules on one Form CT-661.

Line C: Complete the applicable worksheet found on our website at www.tax.ny.gov (search: farmtest). Do not submit the worksheets. Keep a copy of your completed worksheets for your records.

If the percentage shown on the last line of your worksheet is:

• at least 0.6667 (66.67%), mark an X in the Yes box on line C, or
• less than 0.6667 (66.67%), stop; you do not qualify for this credit.

Line F: Enter the total number of different employees you entered on Forms CT-661-ATT. Count each employee once, even if you entered the employee on multiple lines because they worked at different locations, worked in different pay periods, or were paid different rates.

Line G: If you are claiming a credit for eligible overtime indirectly paid to eligible farm employees through a qualified PEO, mark an X in the Yes box. Enter the certificate number and the number of eligible farm employees as shown on the certificate issued by the Department of Agriculture and Markets. Do not complete Form CT-661-ATT.

Additional forms: If you have more entries than will fit on the lines provided in Schedule B on Form CT-661 or the Overtime information table on Form CT-661-ATT, submit additional forms completing only the necessary schedules. Include your name and taxpayer identification number on each additional form. On the indicated lines of the first Form CT-661, include the totals from all additional Forms CT-661 and CT-661-ATT. Place the extra forms behind the first Form CT-661 and submit them with your return.

Schedule A: Eligible farm employee and overtime paid information and calculation of available credit for the current tax year

Note: See the definition of eligible overtime above.

Line 1: Transfer the total amount from all Forms CT-661-ATT, column I. List each eligible farm employee’s name, work location ZIP code, Social Security number, eligible overtime hours worked, overtime rate of pay, and normal rate of pay for the tax year on Form CT-661-ATT. See the definition of eligible farm employee above. Submit all Forms CT-661-ATT behind Form CT-661. If needed, see Additional forms.

Fiscal-year filers: Do not include any eligible overtime paid for the 2026 calendar year on your 2025 Form CT-661-ATT, or on line 1. All overtime paid for 2026 will be certified by the Department of Agriculture and Markets and claimed on your 2026 return. However, you may be eligible for an advance payment for overtime paid prior to July 31, 2026.

Note: If you are an eligible farm employer who paid overtime indirectly through a qualified PEO, enter the amount listed on your certificate issued by the Department of Agriculture and Markets. You do not have to complete Form CT-661-ATT.

Line 5: New York S corporations: Transfer this amount to Form CT-34-SH, New York S Corporation Shareholders’ Information Schedule, and provide your shareholders with their share of this amount.

Line 6: Enter the total amount of any advance payments you applied for and received. If you did not receive an advance payment, enter 0.

Line 7: Subtract line 6 from line 5. Show any negative amount with a minus sign (-).

If the line 7 amount is:

• greater than zero (0), complete Schedule C.
• less than or equal to zero (0), do not complete Schedule C. If less than zero (0), enter this negative amount, using a minus sign (-), in the appropriate box of the Summary of tax credits claimed sections of your franchise tax return.

Schedule B: Partnership information

If you were a partner in a partnership and received a share of the farm employer overtime credit from that entity, complete this schedule. Enter the name and employer identification number of the partnership, credit amount passed through to you from each partnership, and any advance payment amount you applied for and received. Obtain this information from any partnership allocating the credit to you. If you as a partner received a certificate from the Department of Agriculture and Markets listing you as an owner of an eligible farm and you applied for and received advance payment from the Department of Taxation and Finance, enter the advance payment certificate number in column C and the amount of advance payment you received in column E. If needed, see Additional forms.

Note: If the eligible farm you received an advance payment from does not meet the two-thirds of excess federal gross income test, you must repay this amount to the Tax Department.

Schedule C: Calculation of credit used, refunded, or credited as an overpayment to the next tax year 

New York S corporations: Do not complete this schedule.

Line 9: Enter the amount from Form CT-3 or Form CT-3-A, Part 2, line 2, plus any net recaptured tax credits.

Line 10: If you are claiming more than one tax credit for this year, enter the total amount of credits you claimed before applying this credit; otherwise enter 0. You must apply tax credits in a specific order.

Article 9-A filers: For the correct order of credits, see Form CT-600-I, Instructions for Form CT-600, Ordering of Corporation Tax Credits.

Combined filers: Include the total amount of all tax credits you and other members of the combined group are claiming—including the farm employer overtime credit—that you want to apply before you apply this credit.

Line 12: Enter your fixed dollar minimum tax from Form CT-3 or the designated agent’s fixed dollar minimum tax from Form CT-3-A.