[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 309 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

  1st Session
                                H. R. 309


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 2, 2001

   Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 AN ACT


 
  To provide for the determination of withholding tax rates under the 
                            Guam income tax.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. GUAM FOREIGN INVESTMENT EQUITY ACT.

    (a) Short Title.--This section may be cited as the ``Guam Foreign 
Investment Equity Act''.
    (b) In General.--Subsection (d) of section 31 of the Organic Act of 
Guam (48 U.S.C. 1421i) is amended by adding at the end the following 
new paragraph:
    ``(3) In applying as the Guam Territorial income tax the income-tax 
laws in force in Guam pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, the 
rate of tax under sections 871, 881, 884, 1441, 1442, 1443, 1445, and 
1446 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 on any item of income from 
sources within Guam shall be the same as the rate which would apply 
with respect to such item were Guam treated as part of the United 
States for purposes of the treaty obligations of the United States. The 
preceding sentence shall not apply to determine the rate of tax on any 
item of income received from a Guam payor if, for any taxable year, the 
taxes of the Guam payor were rebated under Guam law. For purposes of 
this subsection, the term `Guam payor' means the person from whom the 
item of income would be deemed to be received for purposes of claiming 
treaty benefits were Guam treated as part of the United States.''.
    (c) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (b) shall 
apply to amounts paid after the date of the enactment of the Act.

            Passed the House of Representatives May 1, 2001.

            Attest:

                                                 JEFF TRANDAHL,

                                                                 Clerk.

                            By Martha C. Morrison,

                                                          Deputy Clerk.