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with reference to the unrelated business taxable income computed without the benefit of this paragraph (in lieu of with reference to adjusted gross income).

(12) There shall be allowed a specific deduction of $1,000.
(13) In the case of a trust-

(A) created by virtue of the provisions of the will of an individual who died after August 16, 1954, and before January 1, 1957, (B) which, by virtue of the provisions of such will, is a limited partner in a partnership created under the laws of a State (i) providing for the creation of limited partnerships, and (ii) under which a limited partner has no right to take part in the control of the business without becoming liable as a general partner,

(C) which, at no time before or during a taxable year of the partnership ending within or with the taxable year of the trust, was (or was liable as) a general partner in such partnership, and

(D) which is required to distribute all of its income (within the meaning of section 643 (b)) currently exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, literary, or educational purposes, and which is required to distribute all of the corpus exclusively for such purposes,

there shall be excluded its share (determined under subsection (c) without regard to this paragraph and paragraph (11)) of gross income of the partnership as such limited partner and of the partnership deductions directly connected with such income, but, if such share of gross income exceeds such share of deductions, only to the extent that the partnership makes distributions during its taxable year which are attributable to such gross income. For purposes of the preceding sentence (i) any distribution made after the close of a partnership taxable year and on or before the 15th day of the fourth calendar month after the close of such taxable year shall be treated as made on the last day of such taxable year, and (ii) distributions shall be treated as attributable first to gross income other than gross income described in the preceding sentence, and shall be properly adjusted (under regulations prescribed by the Secretary or his delegate) to the extent necessary to reflect capital contributions to the partnership made by the trust, income of the partnership exempt from tax under this title, and other items.

(c) SPECIAL RULES APPLICABLE TO PARTNERSHIPS.-If a trade or business regularly carried on by a partnership of which an organization is a member is an unrelated trade or business with respect to such organization, such organization in computing its unrelated business taxable income shall, subject to the exceptions, additions, and limitations contained in subsection (b), include its share (whether or not distributed) of the gross income of the partnership from such unrelated trade or business and its share of the partnership deductions directly connected with such gross income. If the taxable year of the organization is different from that of the partnership, the amounts to be so included or deducted in computing the unrelated business taxable income shall be based upon the income and deductions of the partnership for any taxable year of the partnership ending within or with the taxable year of the organization.

SEC. 513. UNRELATED TRADE OR BUSINESS.

(a) GENERAL RULE.-The term "unrelated trade or business" means, in the case of any organization subject to the tax imposed by section 511, any trade or business the conduct of which is not substantially related (aside from the need of such organization for income or funds or the use it makes of the profits derived) to the exercise or performance by such organization of its charitable, educational, or other purpose or function constituting the basis for its exemption under section 501 (or, in the case of an organization described in section 511 (a) (2) (B), to the exercise or performance of any purpose or function described in section 501 (c) (3)), except that such term does not include any trade or business

(1) in which substantially all the work in carrying on such trade or business is performed for the organization without compensation;

or

(2) which is carried on, in the case of an organization described in section 501 (c) (3) or in the case of a college or university described in section 511 (a) (2) (B), by the organization primarily for the convenience of its members, students, patients, officers, or employees; or

(3) which is the selling of merchandise, substantially all of which has been received by the organization as gifts or contributions. (b) SPECIAL RULE FOR TRUSTS.-The term "unrelated trade or business" means, in the case of

(1) a trust computing its unrelated business taxable income under section 512 for purposes of section 681; or

(2) a trust described in section 401 (a), or section 501 (c) (17), which is exempt from tax under section 501 (a);

any trade or business regularly carried on by such trust or by a partnership of which it is a member.

(c) SPECIAL RULE FOR CERTAIN PUBLISHING BUSINESSES.-If a publishing business carried on by an organization during a taxable year beginning before January 1, 1953, is, without regard to this subsection, an unrelated trade or business, but before the beginning of the third succeeding taxable year the business is carried on by it (or by a successor who acquired such business in a liquidation which would have constituted a tax-free exchange under section 112 (b) (6) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1939) in such manner that the conduct thereof is substantially related to the exercise or performance by such organization (or such successor) of its educational or other purpose or function described in section 501 (c) (3), such publishing business shall not be considered, for the taxable year, as an unrelated trade or business.

SEC. 514. BUSINESS LEASES.

(a) BUSINESS LEASE RENTS AND DEDUCTIONS.-In computing under section 512 the unrelated business taxable income for any taxable year

(1) PERCENTAGE OF RENTS TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT.-There shall be included with respect to each business lease, as an item of gross income derived from an unrelated trade or business, an amount which is the same percentage (but not in excess of 100 percent) of the total rents derived during the taxable year under such lease as (A) the business lease indebtedness, at the close of the taxable

year, with respect to the premises covered by such lease is of (B) the adjusted basis, at the close of the taxable year, of such premises.

(2) PERCENTAGE OF DEDUCTIONS TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT. -There shall be allowed with respect to each business lease, as a deduction to be taken into account in computing unrelated business taxable income, an amount determined by applying the percentage derived under paragraph (1) to the sum determined under paragraph (3).

(3) DEDUCTIONS ALLOWABLE.-The sum referred to in paragraph (2) is the sum of the following deductions allowable under this chapter:

(A) Taxes and other expenses paid or accrued during the taxable year on or with respect to the real property subject to the business lease.

(B) Interest paid or accrued during the taxable year on the business lease indebtedness.

(C) A reasonable allowance for exhaustion, wear and tear (including a reasonable allowance for obsolescence) of the real property subject to such lease.

Where only a portion of the real property is subject to the business lease, there shall be taken into account under subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C) only those amounts which are properly allocable to the premises covered by such lease.

(b) DEFINITION OF BUSINESS LEASE.

(1) GENERAL RULE.-For purposes of this section, the term "business lease" means a lease for a term of more than 5 years of real property by an organization (or by a partnership of which it is a member), if at the close of the lessor's taxable year there is a business lease indebtedness (as defined in subsection (c)) with respect to such property.

(2) SPECIAL RULES FOR APPLYING PARAGRAPH (1.)-For purposes of paragraph (1)—

(A) In computing the term of a lease which contains an option for renewal or extension, the term of such lease shall be considered as including any period for which such option may be exercised; and the term of any lease made pursuant to an exercise of such option shall include the period during which the prior lease was in effect. If real property is acquired subject to a lease, the term of such lease shall be considered to begin on the date of such acquisition.

(B) If the property has been occupied by the same lessee for a total period of more than 5 years commencing not earlier than the date of acquisition of the property by the organization or trust (whether such occupancy is under one or more leases, renewals, extensions, or continuations thereof), the occupancy of such lessee shall be considered to be under a lease for a term of more than 5 years within the meaning of paragraph (1). However, subsection (a) shall apply in the case of a tenancy described in this subparagraph (and not within subparagraph (A)) only with respect to the sixth and succeeding years of occupancy by the same lessee. For purposes of this subparagraph, the term "same lessee" shall include any lessee of the property whose relationship with a lessee of the same property

is such that losses in respect of sales or exchanges of property between the 2 lessees would be disallowed under section 267 (a). (3) EXCEPTIONS.

(A) No lease shall be considered a business lease if

(i) such lease is entered into primarily for purposes which are substantially related (aside from the need of such organization for income or funds or the use it makes of the rents derived) to the exercise or performance by such organization of its charitable, educational, or other purpose or function constituting the basis for its exemption under section 501, or

(ii) the lease is of premises in a building primarily designed for occupancy, and occupied, by the organization.

(B) If a lease for more than 5 years to a tenant is for only a portion of the real property, and space in the real property is rented during the taxable year under a lease for not more than 5 years to any other tenant of the organization, leases of the real property for more than 5 years shall be considered as business leases during the taxable year only if

(i) the rents derived from the real property during the taxable year under leases for more than 5 years (not including, as a lease for more than 5 years, an occupancy which is considered as such a lease by reason of paragraph (2) (B)) represent 50 percent or more of the total rents derived during the taxable year from the real property; or the area of the premises occupied under leases for more than 5 years (not including, as a lease for more than 5 years, an occupancy which is considered as such a lease by reason of paragraph (2) (B)) represents, at any time during the taxable year, 50 percent or more of the total area of the real property rented at such time; or

(ii) the rent derived from the real property during the taxable year from any tenant under a lease for more than 5 years (including as a lease for more than 5 years an occupancy which is considered as such a lease by reason of paragraph (2) (B)), or from a group of tenants (under such leases) who are either members of an affiliated group (as defined in section 1504) or partners, represents more than 10 percent of the total rents derived during the taxable year from such property; or the area of the premises occupied by any one such tenant, or by any such group of tenants, represents at any time during the taxable year more than 10 percent of the total area of the real property rented at such time.

In the application of clause (i), if during the last half of the term of a lease a new lease is made to take effect after the expiration of such lease, the unexpired portion of such lease on the date the second lease is made shall not be treated as a part of the term of the second lease.

(c) BUSINESS LEASE INDEBTEDNESS.—

(1) GENERAL RULE.-The term "business lease indebtedness" means, with respect to any real property leased for a term of more than 5 years, the unpaid amount of

(A) the indebtedness incurred by the lessor in acquiring or improving such property;

(B) the indebtedness incurred before the acquisition or improvement of such property if such indebtedness would not have been incurred but for such acquisition or improvement; and

(C) the indebtedness incurred after the acquisition or improvement of such property if such indebtedness would not have been incurred but for such acquisition or improvement and the incurrence of such indebtedness was reasonably foreseeable at the time of such acquisition or improvement.

(2) PROPERTY ACQUIRED SUBJECT TO MORTGAGE, ETC.-Where real property is acquired subject to a mortgage or other similar lien, the amount of the indebtedness secured by such mortgage or lien shall be considered (whether the acquisition was by gift, devise, or purchase) as an indebtedness of the lessor incurred in acquiring such property even though the lessor did not assume or agree to pay such indebtedness, except that where real property was acquired by gift, bequest, or devise before July 1, 1950, subject to a mortgage or other similar lien, the amount of such mortgage or other similar lien shall not be considered as an indebtedness of the lessor incurred in acquiring such property.

(3) CERTAIN PROPERTY ACQUIRED BY GIFT, ETC.-Where real property was acquired by gift, bequest, or devise before July 1, 1950, subject to a lease requiring improvements in such property on the happening of stated contingencies, indebtedness incurred in improving such property in accordance with the terms of such lease shall not be considered as an indebtedness for purposes of this subsection.

(4) CERTAIN CORPORATIONS DESCRIBED IN SECTION 501 (c) (2).—In the case of a corporation described in section 501 (c) (2), all of the stock of which was acquired before July 1, 1950, by an organization described in paragraph (3), (5), or (6) of section 501 (c) (and more than one-third of such stock was acquired by such organization by gift or bequest), any indebtedness incurred by such corporation before July 1, 1950, and any indebtedness incurred by such corporation on or after such date in improving real property in accordance with the terms of a lease entered into before such date, shall not be considered as an indebtedness with respect to such corporation or such organization for purposes of this subsection.

(5) CERTAIN TRUSTS DESCRIBED IN SECTION 401 (a).-In the case of a trust described in section 401 (a), or in the case of a corporation described in section 501 (c) (2) all of the stock of which was acquired prior to March 1, 1954, by a trust described in section 401 (a), any indebtedness incurred by such trust or such corporation before March 1, 1954, in connection with real property which is leased before March 1, 1954, and any indebtedness incurred by such trust or such corporation on or after such date necessary to carry out the terms of such lease, shall not be considered as an indebtedness with respect to such trust or such corporation for purposes of this subsection.

(6) BUSINESS LEASE ON PORTION OF PROPERTY. -In determining the amount of the business lease indebtedness where only a portion of the real property is subject to a business lease, proper allocation to the premises covered by such lease shall be made of the indebtedness incurred by the lessor with respect to the real property.

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