New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 3 - TAXATION
Chapter 3 - PERSONAL INCOME TAXES
Part 5 - OIL AND GAS PROCEEDS WITHHOLDING
Section 3.3.5.14 - REASONS FOR NOT WITHHOLDING

A. written notification from a remittee that the payment is subject to further distribution by the remittee as a remitter to working interest owners, royalty interest owners, overriding royalty interest owners or production payment interest owners;

B. internal documentation such as signed division orders demonstrating that the payment is subject to further distribution by the remittee as a remitter to working interest owners, royalty interest owners, overriding royalty interest owners or production payment interest owners;

C. reliance on a New Mexico address, shown on internal revenue service Form 1099-MISC, or a successor form, or on a pro forma 1099-MISC, or a successor form, for those entities that do not receive an internal revenue service Form 1099-MISC, supplied by the remittee; the remitter may rely on a New Mexico address supplied by the remittee for up to thirty (30) days after receiving written notice from the remittee of a change in address to an address outside New Mexico;

D. receipt of a declaration signed under penalty of perjury, from the remittee or owner, stating that the individual is a resident of New Mexico or that the corporation maintains a principal place of business in New Mexico;

E. receipt of a written agreement from a remittee or owner under 3.3.5.17 NMAC that the remittee or owner will timely report and pay amounts required to be withheld and remitted;

F. inability to make payment of withholding from net income for the quarter due to nonavailability of cash or due to contracts and other binding written covenants with unrelated third parties, unless cash payments have been made to any owner during the quarter, in which case the pass through entity is liable for payment of the withholding amount due up to the extent of the cash payment made during the quarter;

G. with respect to tax years 2014 through 2018, the pass-through entity has elected pursuant to 26 USC 108(i) to defer income from the discharge of indebtedness in connection with the reacquisition after December 31, 2008 and before January 1, 2011 of an applicable debt instrument for the period 2014 through 2018 and the entity has insufficient cash to remit the withholding amount due on the deferred income reported in the year; and

H. any other reason acceptable to the secretary, to be determined on a case-by-case basis.