LIHTC Guide
Calculate property-specific income limits and maximum rents with Hold Harmless, Rent Floor, HERA limits, and utility allowances.
Annualize employment income from pay stubs to determine annual gross income for LIHTC certification.
Annualize income from a Work Number employment verification using the most recent pay history for each active employer.
Project annual income from year-to-date earnings, payment frequency, and most recent pay date.
Project annual income from hourly wages with overtime, shift differential, bonuses, and tips across multiple employers.
Project annual income from salaried pay with configurable pay frequency, bonuses, and tips across multiple employers.
Annualize Social Security, SSI, pension, and other fixed benefit income for LIHTC certification, with a COLA split for October to December Social Security and SSI certifications.
Calculate net family assets and income from assets under HOTMA rules with imputed income scenarios.
Project annual gross pay from drills, AT, AGR, and federal mobilizations across all duty statuses with locality BAH and special pays.
Project annual gross income from a Leave & Earnings Statement (LES) — basic pay, BAH, BAS, special pays. Upload an LES for AI-assisted form fill.
Add or subtract days from a date or count the days between two dates for verification windows and compliance deadlines.
Work the student financial income worksheet: apply Title IV aid to educational expenses and determine how much other financial assistance counts as household income.
Upload bank statement PDFs for AI-powered deposit analysis, income source identification, and pattern detection.
Look up Basic Allowance for Housing rates by ZIP code and military rank.
Walk through the LIHTC full-time student rule for a household: the five-month test for each member, the Section 42 exceptions with the documents each needs, and a side-by-side Section 8 student check for layered properties.
Area median income limits and maximum rents by household size and AMI percentage.
Check if an address is eligible for USDA Rural Development programs based on geographic location.
Check whether an address, census tract, ZIP code, or county is in a HUD Qualified Census Tract or Difficult Development Area.
How many months of Social Security and SSI to count at the post-COLA amount on October to December certifications: pay dates, months by effective date, and a worked example.
View historical Cost-of-Living Adjustment increase amounts and effective dates.
Annual HOTMA inflation-adjusted thresholds, deductions, and passbook savings rate by calendar year.
Look up BAH rates, basic pay, BAS, and clothing allowances by year, rank, ZIP, and branch.
Search the national LIHTC project database by state, year, construction type, credit type, and other project characteristics.
Explore LIHTC projects on an interactive map with filters for state, construction type, credit type, year, and more.
Explore state-level LIHTC tenant demographics, income, rent burden, disability status, and federal subsidies across multiple years.
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