• You must be an Emergency Medical Services Provider (Emergency Medical Responder, EMT Basic, Advanced EMT, EMT-Intermediate or Paramedic) licensed by the State of Oregon, providing some services on a volunteer basis. 
• Your EMS Provider volunteer service must meet the following definition: A volunteer is a person properly trained under Oregon law who either operates an ambulance to and from the scene of an emergency or renders emergency medical treatment on a volunteer basis so long as the total reimbursement received for such volunteer services does not represent more than 25% of their gross annual income and does not exceed $3,000 per calendar year.
• The time you spend providing EMS Provider services as a volunteer must be 20% or more of your total EMS Provider time (paid and volunteer combined). In addition, your volunteer time must be spent with a station or agency located in a qualifying area, which is 25 miles from a city of 30,000 or more. All stand-by, response and training time spent as an EMT counts.

Please check to see if the station/agency you volunteer for qualifies as eligible by checking either this Excel spreadsheet or PDF. You can also find a map that displays the 25 mile buffers cast by populations of 30,000 or more.

Process

• To receive the credit you will need to complete an application to determine eligibility.
• Complete and fill out an application form below.
• Confirmation of the credit will be sent to the email address you submit on the form.
• You can expect to receive confirmation of your eligibility within four weeks during the months of December, January, and February, and within three weeks the rest of the year.
• If you are deemed eligible for the credit, we will send you an email to the address you submitted each December, letting you know the next tax year form is ready to be completed.
• If you claim the credit on your tax return without submitting an application, the Oregon Department of Revenue will deny the credit. If you do this, please complete and return the appropriate form so that we can confirm your credit in due time for you to be able to appeal the DOR's denial.

Amending Previous Years

New Applications and Renewal Forms

These forms are electronic. If possible, please fill out as much as possible on the computer and take a screenshot if you would like to retain a copy of your application.

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