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Subchapter M-Regulated Investment Companies and Real Estate Investment Trusts

Part I. Regulated investment companies.
Part II. Real estate investment trusts.

Part I-Regulated Investment Companies

Sec. 851. Definition of regulated investment company.

Sec. 852. Taxation of regulated investment companies and their shareholders.

Sec. 853. Foreign tax credit allowed to shareholders.

Sec. 854. Limitations applicable to dividends received from regulated investment company.

Sec. 855. Dividends paid by regulated investment company after close of taxable year.

SEC. 851. DEFINITION OF REGULATED INVESTMENT COMPANY. (a) GENERAL RULE.-For purposes of this subtitle, the term "regulated investment company" means any domestic corporation (other than a personal holding company as defined in section 542)—

(1) which, at all times during the taxable year, is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (54 Stat. 789; 15 U. S. C. 80 a-1 to 80 b-2), either as a management company or as a unit investment trust, or

(2) which is a common trust fund or similar fund excluded by section 3 (c) (3) of such Act (15 U. S. C. 80 a-3 (c)) from the definition of "investment company" and is not included in the definition of "common trust fund" by section 584 (a).

(b) LIMITATIONS.-A corporation shall not be considered a regulated investment company for any taxable year unless

(1) it files with its return for the taxable year an election to be a regulated investment company or has made such election for a previous taxable year which began after December 31, 1941;

(2) at least 90 percent of its gross income is derived from dividends, interest, and gains from the sale or other disposition of stock or securities;

(3) less than 30 percent of its gross income is derived from the sale or other disposition of stock or securities held for less than 3 months; and

(4) at the close of each quarter of the taxable year

(A) at least 50 percent of the value of its total assets is represented by

(i) cash and cash items (including receivables), Government securities and securities of other regulated investment companies, and

(ii) other securities for purposes of this calculation limited, except and to the extent provided in subsection (e), in respect of any one issuer to an amount not greater in value than 5 percent of the value of the total assets of the taxpayer and to

not more than 10 percent of the outstanding voting securities of such issuer, and

(B) not more than 25 percent of the value of its total assets is invested in the securities (other than Government securities or the securities of other regulated investment companies) of any one issuer, or of two or more issuers which the taxpayer controls and which are determined, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary or his delegate, to be engaged in the same or similar trades or businesses or related trades or businesses.

(c) RULES APPLICABLE TO SUBSECTION (b) (4).-For purposes of subsection (b) (4) and this subsection

(1) In ascertaining the value of the taxpayer's investment in the securities of an issuer, for the purposes of subparagraph (B), there shall be included its proper proportion of the investment of any other corporation, a member of a controlled group, in the securities of such issuer, as determined under regulations prescribed by the Secretary or his delegate.

(2) The term "controls" means the ownership in a corporation of 20 percent or more of the total combined voting power of all classes of stock entitled to vote.

(3) The term "controlled group" means one or more chains of corporations connected through stock ownership with the taxpayer if

(A) 20 percent or more of the total combined voting power of all classes of stock entitled to vote of each of the corporations (except the taxpayer) is owned directly by one or more of the other corporations, and

(B) the taxpayer owns directly 20 percent or more of the total combined voting power of all classes of stock entitled to vote, of at least one of the other corporations.

(4) The term "value" means, with respect to securities (other than those of majority-owned subsidiaries) for which market quotations are readily available, the market value of such securities; and with respect to other securities and assets, fair value as determined in good faith by the board of directors, except that in the case of securities of majority-owned subsidiaries which are investment companies such fair value shall not exceed market value or asset value, whichever is higher.

(5) All other terms shall have the same meaning as when used in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

(d) DETERMINATION OF STATUS.-A corporation which meets the requirements of subsections (b) (4) and (c) at the close of any quarter shall not lose its status as a regulated investment company because of a discrepancy during a subsequent quarter between the value of its various investments and such requirements unless such discrepancy exists immediately after the acquisition of any security or other property and is wholly or partly the result of such acquisition. A corporation which does not meet such requirements at the close of any quarter by reason of a discrepancy existing immediately after the acquisition of any security or other property which is wholly or partly the result of such acquisition during such quarter shall not lose its status for such quarter as a regulated investment company if such discrepancy is eliminated within 30 days after the close of such quarter

and in such cases it shall be considered to have met such requirements at the close of such quarter for purposes of applying the preceding

sentence.

(e) INVESTMENT COMPANIES FURNISHING CAPITAL TO DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONS.

(1) GENERAL RULE. If the Securities and Exchange Commission determines, in accordance with regulations issued by it, and certifies to the Secretary or his delegate not earlier than 60 days prior to the close of the taxable year of a registered management company, that such investment company is principally engaged in the furnishing of capital to other corporations which are principally engaged in the development or exploitation of inventions, technological improvements, new processes, or products not previously generally available, such investment company may, in the computation of 50 percent of the value of its assets under subparagraph (A) of subsection (b) (4) for any quarter of such taxable year, include the value of any securities of an issuer, whether or not the investment company owns more than 10 percent of the outstanding voting securities of such issuer, the basis of which, when added to the basis of the investment company for securities of such issuer previously acquired, did not exceed 5 percent of the value of the total assets of the investment company at the time of the subsequent acquisition of securities. The preceding sentence shall not apply to the securities of an issuer if the investment company has continuously held any security of such issuer (or of any predecessor company of such issuer as determined under regulations prescribed by the Secretary or his delegate) for 10 or more years preceding such quarter of such taxable year.

(2) LIMITATION.-The provisions of this subsection shall not apply at the close of any quarter of a taxable year to an investment company if at the close of such quarter more than 25 percent of the value of its total assets is represented by securities of issuers with respect to each of which the investment company holds more than 10 percent of the outstanding voting securities of such issuer and in respect of each of which or any predecessor thereof the investment company has continuously held any security for 10 or more years preceding such quarter unless the value of its total assets so represented is reduced to 25 percent or less within 30 days after the close of such quarter.

(3) DETERMINATION OF STATUS.-For purposes of this subsection, unless the Securities and Exchange Commission determines otherwise, a corporation shall be considered to be principally engaged in the development or exploitation of inventions, technological improvements, new processes, or products not previously generally available, for at least 10 years after the date of the first acquisition of any security in such corporation or any predecessor thereof by such investment company if at the date of such acquisition the corporation or its predecessor was principally so engaged, and an investment company shall be considered at any date to be furnishing capital to any company whose securities it holds if within 10. years prior to such date it has acquired any of such securities, or any securities surrendered in exchange therefor, from such other company or predecessor thereof. For purposes of the certification

under this subsection, the Securities and Exchange Commission shall have authority to issue such rules, regulations and orders, and to conduct such investigations and hearings, either public or private, as it may deem appropriate.

(4) DEFINITIONS.-The terms used in this subsection shall have the same meaning as in subsections (b) (4) and (c) of this section. SEC. 852. TAXATION OF REGULATED INVESTMENT COMPANIES AND THEIR SHAREHOLDERS.

(a) REQUIREMENTS APPLICABLE ΤΟ REGULATED INVESTMENT COMPANIES. The provisions of this part (other than subsection (c) of this section) shall not be applicable to a regulated investment company for a taxable year unless

(1) the deduction for dividends paid during the taxable year (as defined in section 561, but without regard to capital gains dividends) equals or exceeds 90 percent of its investment company taxable income for the taxable year (determined without regard to subsection (b) (2) (D)), and

(2) the investment company complies for such year with regulations prescribed by the Secretary or his delegate for the purpose of ascertaining the actual ownership of its outstanding stock. (b) METHOD OF TAXATION OF COMPANIES AND SHAREHOLDERS.— (1) IMPOSITION OF NORMAL TAX AND SURTAX ON REGULATED INVESTMENT COMPANIES.-There is hereby imposed for each taxable year upon the investment company taxable income of every regulated investment company a normal tax and surtax computed as provided in section 11, as though the investment company taxable income were the taxable income referred to in section 11. purposes of computing the normal tax under section 11, the taxable income and the dividends paid deduction of such investment company for the taxable year (computed without regard to capital gains dividends) shall be reduced by the deduction provided by section 242 (relating to partially tax-exempt interest).

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(2) INVESTMENT COMPANY TAXABLE INCOME.-The investment company taxable income shall be the taxable income of the regulated investment company adjusted as follows:

(A) There shall be excluded the excess, if any, of the net longterm capital gain over the net short-term capital loss.

(B) The net operating loss deduction provided in section 172 shall not be allowed.

(C) The deductions for corporations provided in part VIII (except section 248) in subchapter B (section 241 and following, relating to the deduction for dividends received, etc.) shall not be allowed.

(D) The deduction for dividends paid (as defined in section 561) shall be allowed, but shall be computed without regard to capital gains dividends.

(E) The taxable income shall be computed without regard to section 443 (b) (relating to computation of tax on change of annual accounting period).

(3) CAPITAL GAINS.

(A) IMPOSITION OF TAX.-There is hereby imposed for each taxable year in the case of every regulated investment company a

tax of 25 percent of the excess, if any, of the net long-term capital gain over the sum of—

(i) the net short-term capital loss, and

(ii) the deduction for dividends paid (as defined in section 561) determined with reference to capital gains dividends only. (B) TREATMENT OF CAPITAL GAIN DIVIDENDS BY SHAREHOLDERS.-A capital gain dividend shall be treated by the shareholders as a gain from the sale or exchange of a capital asset held for more than 6 months.

(C) DEFINITION OF CAPITAL GAIN DIVIDEND.-For purposes of this part, a capital gain dividend is any dividend, or part thereof, which is designated by the company as a capital gain dividend in a written notice mailed to its shareholders not later than 30 days after the close of its taxable year. If the aggregate amount so designated with respect to a taxable year of the company (including capital gains dividends paid after the close of the taxable year described in section 855) is greater than the excess of the net longterm capital gain over the net short-term capital loss of the taxable year, the portion of each distribution which shall be a capital gain dividend shall be only that proportion of the amount so designated which such excess of the net long-term capital gain over the net short-term capital loss bears to the aggregate amount so designated.

(D) TREATMENT BY SHAREHOLDERS OF UNDISTRIBUTED CAPITAL

GAINS

(i) Every shareholder of a regulated investment company at the close of the company's taxable year shall include, in computing his long-term capital gains in his return for his taxable year in which the last day of the company's taxable year falls, such amount as the company shall designate in respect of such shares in a written notice mailed to its shareholders at any time prior to the expiration of 30 days after close of its taxable year, but the amount so includible by any shareholder shall not exceed that part of the amount subjected to tax in subparagraph (A) which he would have received if all of such amount had been distributed as capital gain dividends by the company to the holders of such shares at the close of its taxable year. (ii) For purposes of this title, every such shareholder shall be deemed to have paid, for his taxable year under clause (i), the tax of 25 percent imposed by subparagraph (A) on the amounts required by this subparagraph to be included in respect of such shares in computing his long-term capital gains for that year; and such shareholder shall be allowed credit or refund, as the case may be, for the tax so deemed to have been paid by him.

(iii) The adjusted basis of such shares in the hands of the shareholder shall be increased by 75 percent of the amounts required by this subparagraph to be included in computing his long-term capital gains.

(iv) In the event of such designation the tax imposed by subparagraph (A) shall be paid by the regulated investment company within 30 days after close of its taxable year.

(v) The earnings and profits of such regulated investment company, and the earnings and profits of any such shareholder

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