[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 167 (Thursday, August 27, 2020)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 53098-53124]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Internal Revenue Service

26 CFR Part 1

[REG-124737-19]
RIN 1545-BP57


Coordination of Extraordinary Disposition and Disqualified Basis 
Rules

AGENCY: Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Treasury.

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking.

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SUMMARY: This document contains proposed regulations under sections 
245A and 951A of the Internal Revenue Code (the ``Code'') that 
coordinate the extraordinary disposition rule under section 245A of the 
Internal Revenue Code (the ``Code'') with the disqualified basis rule 
under section 951A of the Code. This document also contains proposed 
regulations under section 6038 of the Code regarding information 
reporting to facilitate administration of the proposed regulations. The 
proposed regulations affect corporations that are subject to the 
extraordinary disposition rule and the disqualified basis rule.

DATES: Written or electronic comments and requests for a public hearing 
must be received by October 26, 2020. Requests for a public hearing 
must be submitted as prescribed in the ``Comments and Requests for a 
Public Hearing'' section.

ADDRESSES: Commenters are strongly encouraged to submit public comments 
electronically. Submit electronic submissions via the Federal 
eRulemaking Portal at www.regulations.gov (indicate IRS and REG-124737-
19) by following the online instructions for submitting comments. Once 
submitted to the Federal eRulemaking Portal, comments cannot be edited 
or withdrawn. The IRS expects to have limited personnel available to 
process public comments that are submitted on paper through mail. Until 
further notice, any comments submitted on paper will be considered to 
the extent practicable. The Department of the Treasury (Treasury 
Department) and the IRS will publish for public availability any 
comment submitted electronically, and to the extent practicable on 
paper, to its public docket.
    Send paper submissions to: CC:PA:LPD:PR (REG-124737-19), Room 5203, 
Internal Revenue Service, P.O. Box 7604, Ben Franklin Station, 
Washington, DC 20044.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Concerning the proposed regulations, 
Logan M. Kincheloe, (202) 317-6937; concerning submission of comments 
or requests for a hearing, Regina Johnson, (202) 317-6901 (not toll-
free numbers).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

I. Overview

    This document contains proposed amendments to 26 CFR part 1 under 
sections 245A, 951A, and 6038 (the ``proposed regulations''). Any terms 
used but not defined in this preamble have the meanings given to them 
in the proposed regulations.

II. Sections 245A and 954(c)(6)

    Section 245A was added to the Code by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, 
Public Law 115-97, 131 Stat. 2054, 2189 (2017) (the ``Act''), which was 
enacted on December 22, 2017. Section 245A generally allows a domestic 
corporation that is a United States shareholder (as defined in section 
951(b)) a 100-percent dividends received deduction (a ``section 245A 
deduction'') for the foreign-source portion of a dividend received 
after December 31, 2017, from a specified 10-percent owned foreign 
corporation (an ``SFC''). Section 245A(g) provides the Secretary with 
authority to prescribe such regulations or other guidance as may be 
necessary or appropriate to carry out the provisions of section 245A.
    Section 954(c)(6) was added to the Code by the Tax Increase 
Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005, Public Law 109-222, 120 
Stat. 345 (2006). Section 954(c)(6) generally provides that, for 
certain taxable years, dividends received or accrued by a controlled 
foreign corporation (as defined in section 957) (a ``CFC'') from 
another CFC that is a related person generally are excluded from the 
foreign personal holding company income (as defined in section 954(c)) 
(``FPHCI'') of the distributee CFC. Section 954(c)(6)(A) provides the 
Secretary with the authority to prescribe regulations as may be 
necessary or appropriate to carry out section 954(c)(6), including 
regulations as may be necessary or appropriate to prevent the abuse of 
its purposes. Section 954(c)(6) currently applies to taxable years of 
foreign corporations beginning before January 1, 2021, and to taxable 
years of United States shareholders with or within which those taxable 
years of the foreign corporations end.
    On June 18, 2019, the Department of the Treasury (``Treasury 
Department'') and the IRS published temporary regulations (TD 9865, 84 
FR 28398) and cross-referenced proposed regulations (REG-106282-18, 84 
FR 28426) (together the ``2019 section 245A regulations'') under 
sections 245A, 954, and 6038. The 2019 proposed regulations are 
finalized, and the temporary regulations are removed, in the Final 
Rules section of this issue of the Federal Register (the proposed 
regulations as finalized, the ``final regulations''). The final 
regulations include rules that limit the amount eligible for the 
section 245A deduction and the amount eligible for the section 
954(c)(6) exception by 50 percent of the extraordinary disposition 
amount or tiered extraordinary disposition amount, respectively 
(together, the ``extraordinary disposition rule''). See Sec.  1.245A-
5(b) and (d). In general, an extraordinary disposition amount is an 
amount of earnings and profits (``E&P'') distributed by an SFC that is 
attributable to an extraordinary disposition, which includes certain 
non-ordinary course asset sales between related parties during the 
selling SFC's disqualified period. In general, a tiered extraordinary 
disposition amount is a dividend received by an upper-tier CFC from a 
lower-tier CFC that would be an extraordinary disposition amount if 
received by a section 245A shareholder of the lower-tier CFC. The 
disqualified period is defined with respect to an SFC as the period 
beginning on January 1, 2018, and ending as of the close of the taxable 
year of the SFC, if any, that begins before January 1, 2018, and ends 
after December 31, 2017. See Sec.  1.245A-5(c). The purpose of the 
extraordinary disposition rule is to prevent taxpayers from obtaining 
the benefits of the section 245A deduction or the section 954(c)(6) 
exception for E&P that were generated in certain non-ordinary course 
transactions occurring during the disqualified period and that were not 
subject to current U.S. tax solely because the transactions occurred 
during the disqualified period; these E&P are generally not intended to 
qualify for the section 245A deduction or the section 954(c)(6) 
exception. See 84 FR 28401.

III. Section 951A

    Section 951A, added to the Code by the Act, requires a United 
States shareholder of any CFC for any taxable year to include in gross 
income the United States shareholder's global intangible low-taxed 
income (``GILTI inclusion amount'') for that year. On October 10, 2018, 
the Treasury Department and the IRS published in the Federal Register 
proposed regulations (REG-104390-18, 83 FR

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51072) implementing section 951A. On June 21, 2019, the Treasury 
Department and the IRS published in the Federal Register final 
regulations (``GILTI final regulations'') (TD 9866, 84 FR 29288) that 
adopted, with revisions, the proposed regulations under section 951A.
    The GILTI final regulations include a rule providing that a 
deduction or loss attributable to basis created by reason of a transfer 
of property from a CFC to a related person during the disqualified 
period (``disqualified basis'') is allocated and apportioned solely to 
residual CFC gross income (the ``disqualified basis rule''). See Sec.  
1.951A-2(c)(5)(i).\1\ Residual CFC gross income is defined as gross 
income other than gross tested income, subpart F income, or income 
effectively connected with the conduct of a trade or business in the 
United States. See Sec.  1.951A-2(c)(5)(iii)(B). The disqualified basis 
rule also provides that any depreciation, amortization, or cost 
recovery allowances attributable to disqualified basis are not properly 
allocable to property produced, or acquired for resale, under section 
263, 263A, or 471. See Sec.  1.951A-2(c)(5)(i). The purpose of the 
disqualified basis rule is to prevent taxpayers from obtaining the 
benefits of tax basis in the transferred asset (for example, 
depreciation or amortization deductions over time that reduce a CFC's 
tested income or increase a CFC's tested loss) that was created through 
related-party transactions effectuated at no U.S. tax cost solely 
because they occurred during the disqualified period. See 84 FR 29299. 
Thus, the rule creates symmetry between the categorization of non-taxed 
income created in the transaction generating disqualified basis during 
the disqualified period and the categorization of deductions generated 
after the disqualified period attributable to that disqualified basis. 
See id.
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    \1\ Although the extraordinary disposition rule and the 
disqualified basis rule define ``disqualified period'' using 
different terminology, in application, a CFC that has a disqualified 
period under either rule has a disqualified period under the other 
rule. Compare Sec.  1.245A-5(c)(3)(iii) with Sec.  1.951A-
3(h)(2)(ii)(C)(1). For this reason, references to a ``disqualified 
period'' in this preamble refer to the unified concept of a 
disqualified period under both the extraordinary disposition rule 
and the disqualified basis rule.
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    Further, recently proposed regulations under section 951A treat a 
deduction related to certain payments by a CFC to a related recipient 
CFC during the disqualified period in a manner similar to the treatment 
of disqualified basis under the GILTI final regulations (the 
``disqualified payment rule''). See REG-106013-19, 85 FR 19858.

Explanation of Provisions

I. Overview

    In certain cases, the extraordinary disposition rule and the 
disqualified basis rule, when applied together, may give rise to excess 
taxation as to a section 245A shareholder (or as to the section 245A 
shareholder and a related party). For example, consider a case in which 
a CFC that is wholly owned by a section 245A shareholder sells an item 
of specified property during the disqualified period to another CFC 
that is wholly owned by the section 245A shareholder. In this case, 
there is a single amount of gain (the gain that the transferor CFC 
recognizes upon the sale), which gives rise to both extraordinary 
disposition E&P of the transferor CFC (the E&P generated upon the sale) 
and disqualified basis in the item of specified property held by the 
transferee CFC (the basis step-up in the item of specified property 
resulting from the sale). The gain will in effect be subject to U.S. 
tax as to the section 245A shareholder when the extraordinary 
disposition E&P are distributed as a dividend by the transferor CFC. In 
addition, an amount (such as an amount of future gross tested income of 
the transferee CFC) equal to the gain might be indirectly taxed as to 
the section 245A shareholder as a result of not being offset or reduced 
by deductions or losses attributable to the disqualified basis 
(because, but for the disqualified basis rule, such deductions or 
losses would have offset or reduced the amount and sheltered it from 
U.S. tax). Moreover, the disqualified basis rule may in certain cases 
have the effect of reducing, in an amount equal to the gain, E&P of the 
transferee CFC that would otherwise have been eligible for the section 
245A deduction when distributed as a dividend to the section 245A 
shareholder. This could occur because, in general, deductions or losses 
that are subject to the disqualified basis rule nevertheless reduce 
E&P.
    The preamble to the 2019 section 245A regulations requested 
comments on whether and how to coordinate the extraordinary disposition 
rule and the disqualified basis rule. See 84 FR 28402. One comment was 
received, which recommended these rules be coordinated and suggested 
two approaches to that effect.
    The first approach would permit taxpayers to effectively unwind the 
tax effect of an extraordinary disposition. Under this approach, a 
section 245A shareholder's extraordinary disposition account would be 
eliminated if, with respect to each item of specified property taken 
into account in determining the initial balance of the account, an 
election were made pursuant to Sec.  1.951A-3(h)(2)(ii)(B)(3) to reduce 
the item's adjusted basis (and thus eliminate the item's disqualified 
basis), and provided that certain other requirements are met (for 
example, the person to which the item of specified property was 
transferred in the extraordinary disposition was a CFC, which remains a 
CFC for at least five years after the extraordinary disposition). The 
proposed regulations do not adopt this approach because the Treasury 
Department and the IRS have determined that it could give rise to 
inappropriate results, such as the elimination of an extraordinary 
disposition account in cases in which it is unlikely that the 
extraordinary disposition rule and the disqualified basis rule, when 
applied together, would result in excess taxation. In addition, the 
approach could be difficult to administer. For example, after the 
extraordinary disposition, the CFC to which the specified property was 
transferred might be transferred outside the U.S. taxing jurisdiction 
but remain a CFC due to the Act's repeal of section 958(b)(4), with the 
result that in effect there is no or little U.S. tax cost to the CFC 
having reduced the adjusted basis (and eliminated the disqualified 
basis) of the item of specified property. Furthermore, because the 
extraordinary disposition account with respect to the transferor CFC 
would have been eliminated, the E&P attributable to the extraordinary 
disposition could reduce gain that would otherwise be recognized on the 
disposition of stock of the transferor CFC as a result of the section 
245A deduction. Moreover, there would be additional administrative and 
compliance burdens if the regulations adopted an approach pursuant to 
which an extraordinary disposition account is tentatively eliminated 
when elections are made pursuant to Sec.  1.951A-3(h)(3) to reduce 
adjusted bases (and eliminate disqualified basis), but then the 
extraordinary disposition account is retroactively restored if the 
transferee CFC ceases to be a CFC or becomes a CFC only by reason of 
the repeal of section 958(b)(4).
    The second approach recommended by the comment would adjust 
disqualified basis of an item of specified property to the extent that 
gain to which the disqualified basis is attributable is in effect 
subject to U.S. tax by reason of the extraordinary disposition rule. 
Similarly, an extraordinary disposition account of a section 245A 
shareholder would be adjusted to the extent that, with respect to 
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attributable to gain to which the extraordinary disposition account is 
also attributable, the disqualified basis gives rise to deductions or 
losses that are allocated and apportioned to residual CFC gross income 
of a CFC by reason of the disqualified basis rule.
    As discussed in parts II through IV of this Explanation of 
Provisions, the proposed regulations adopt a coordination mechanism 
that is broadly consistent with the second approach recommended by the 
comment. The coordination mechanism involves two operative rules, one 
that reduces disqualified basis in certain cases (the ``DQB reduction 
rule''), and another that reduces an extraordinary disposition account 
in certain cases (the ``EDA reduction rule'').
    In addition, to reduce burden and facilitate compliance, the 
proposed regulations provide two versions of both the DQB reduction 
rule and the EDA reduction rule, similar to the approach taken in 
Sec. Sec.  1.1248-2 and 1.1248-3 (providing rules for determining 
earnings and profits attributable to a block of stock in simple and 
complex cases). See proposed Sec. Sec.  1.245A-7 and 1.245A-8. These 
versions achieve the same results. The first version (proposed Sec.  
1.245A-7) may be applied to simple cases, and the second version 
(proposed Sec.  1.245A-8) applies to complex cases.
    The version for simple cases may be applied when two conditions are 
satisfied, because those conditions eliminate the need for certain 
additional rules under the version for complex cases. See proposed 
Sec.  1.245A-6(b). The first condition provides requirements related to 
the seller SFC with respect to which there is an extraordinary 
disposition account. See proposed Sec.  1.245A-6(b)(1). The second 
condition provides requirements related to an item of specified 
property for which an extraordinary disposition occurred and the buyer 
CFC holding the item. See proposed Sec.  1.245A-6(b)(2). As an example, 
the version for simple cases generally applies if (i) the seller SFC is 
wholly-owned (directly or indirectly, within the meaning of section 
958(a)) by the section 245A shareholder at the time of the 
extraordinary disposition and remains wholly-owned by the section 245A 
shareholder, (ii) the seller SFC does not succeed to E&P of another SFC 
with respect to which there is an extraordinary disposition account, 
(iii) the items of specified property for which an extraordinary 
disposition occurred are acquired by a buyer CFC wholly-owned by the 
section 245A shareholder and certain related parties and the buyer CFC 
remains wholly-owned by the section 245A shareholder and certain 
related parties, and (iv) the buyer CFC retains the items of specified 
property it acquires in the extraordinary disposition and does not 
acquire items of specified property with disqualified basis that were 
transferred in another extraordinary disposition. See proposed Sec.  
1.245A-6(b)(1) and (2).
    The determination as to whether the version for simple cases is 
available is made with respect to a taxable year of a section 245A 
shareholder. If the conditions for applying the version for simple 
cases are not satisfied for a taxable year, then the version for 
complex cases must be applied beginning with that taxable year and all 
subsequent taxable years. In addition, if the conditions for applying 
the version for simple cases are satisfied for a taxable year but the 
section 245A shareholder chooses not to apply the version for simple 
cases for that taxable year, then the version for complex cases applies 
to that taxable year. However, for a subsequent taxable year, the 
section 245A shareholder may apply the version for simple cases, 
provided that the conditions for applying the version for simple cases 
are satisfied for that taxable year and have been satisfied for all 
earlier taxable years.
    Further, for purposes of determining whether the conditions for 
applying the version for simple cases are satisfied, any requirement 
that references a section 245A shareholder, an SFC, or a CFC does not 
include a successor of the section 245A shareholder, the SFC, or the 
CFC, respectively. See proposed Sec.  1.245A-6(b) (last sentence). As a 
result, the version of the rules for simple cases is not available if 
the section 245A shareholder's extraordinary disposition account with 
respect to an SFC has been adjusted pursuant to the successor rules of 
Sec.  1.245A-5(c)(4). Thus, for example, the version of the rules for 
simple cases is not available if the assets of the section 245A 
shareholder are acquired by another domestic corporation, or if the 
assets of the seller SFC are acquired by another SFC, in each case, in 
a transaction described in section 381 and subject to Sec.  1.245A-
5(c)(4)(i) or (ii), respectively.
    Section II of this Explanation of Provisions discusses the versions 
of the DQB reduction rule and the EDA reduction rule that apply for 
simple cases. Section III of this Explanation of Provisions then 
discusses the versions of those rules for complex cases. Section IV of 
this Explanation of Provisions discusses other rules applicable to both 
simple and complex cases. Section V of this Explanation of Provisions 
discusses applicability dates, and Section VI of this Explanation of 
Provisions requests comments.

II. Rules for Simple Cases

A. The DQB Reduction Rule

1. In General
    The DQB reduction rule provides that when an extraordinary 
disposition account of a section 245A shareholder gives rise to an 
extraordinary disposition amount or tiered extraordinary disposition 
amount, the disqualified bases of certain items of specified property 
are reduced by the same amount solely for purposes of Sec.  1.951A-
2(c)(5). See proposed Sec.  1.245A-7(b)(1). This rule is intended to 
ensure that as the extraordinary disposition rule applies to cause gain 
to which extraordinary disposition E&P are attributable to in effect be 
subject to U.S. tax, the disqualified basis rule generally does not 
apply to the basis of an item of specified property attributable to 
that gain (because that basis is no longer generated at no U.S. tax 
cost) and, accordingly, items of deduction or loss attributable to that 
basis become eligible to offset income subject to U.S. tax.
    More specifically, for a taxable year of a section 245A 
shareholder, the disqualified bases of items of specified property that 
``correspond'' to the section 245A shareholder's extraordinary 
disposition account are generally reduced by the sum of the 
extraordinary disposition amounts or tiered extraordinary disposition 
amounts for the taxable year. See proposed Sec.  1.245A-7(b)(1); see 
also proposed Sec.  1.245A-9(b)(1) (general rule providing that an item 
of specified property corresponds to an extraordinary disposition 
account if gain was recognized on the extraordinary disposition of the 
item and was taken into account in determining the initial balance of 
the account). This correspondence requirement ensures that the rule 
only reduces disqualified basis of an item of specified property that 
is attributable to gain that was taken into account in determining the 
initial balance of the account, and thus the rule does not reduce 
disqualified basis of an item of specified property that is 
attributable to other gain (for example, disqualified basis of an item 
of specified property that corresponds to an extraordinary disposition 
account of another section 245A shareholder or that does not correspond 
to an extraordinary disposition account).
    The amount of the reduction under the DQB reduction rule is 
allocated pro rata across the disqualified basis of each item of 
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corresponds to the section 245A shareholder's extraordinary disposition 
account, based on the item's disqualified basis relative to the 
aggregate disqualified bases of the items. See proposed Sec.  1.245A-
7(b)(1). The Treasury Department and the IRS have determined that a pro 
rata approach is appropriate because the initial balance of the 
extraordinary disposition account reflects an aggregate of the gain of 
each item of specified property that corresponds to the account 
(reduced by losses with respect to certain items of specified 
property). In addition, alternative approaches would be unduly complex, 
such as a stacking approach pursuant to which a reduction is applied 
first with respect to disqualified basis of a particular item of 
specified property, then with respect to another item of specified 
property, and so on.
2. Timing Rules for Determining and Reducing Disqualified Basis
    For purposes of applying the DQB reduction rule for a taxable year 
of a section 245A shareholder, disqualified basis of an item of 
specified property is determined as of the beginning of the taxable 
year of the CFC holding the item that includes the date on which the 
section 245A shareholder's taxable year ends (and, to avoid circularity 
issues, without regard to any reductions to disqualified basis of the 
item of specified property pursuant to the DQB reduction rule for such 
taxable year of the CFC). See proposed Sec.  1.245A-9(b)(2)(i). Then, 
disqualified basis of the item of specified property is reduced as of 
the beginning of the taxable year of the CFC. See proposed Sec.  
1.245A-9(b)(2)(ii). Thus, for example, disqualified basis of an item of 
specified property is reduced before any depreciation, amortization, or 
other cost recovery deduction allowances attributable to the basis of 
the item are determined for the CFC's taxable year.

B. The EDA Reduction Rule

1. In General
    The EDA reduction rule provides that when items of deduction or 
loss attributable to disqualified basis of an item of specified 
property are allocated and apportioned to residual CFC gross income of 
a CFC and have the effect of reducing certain E&P of the CFC that could 
otherwise potentially qualify for the section 245A deduction when 
distributed, the extraordinary disposition account to which the 
specified property corresponds is reduced by up to the same amount. See 
proposed Sec.  1.245A-7(c)(1). This rule is generally intended to 
ensure that as the application of the disqualified basis rule results 
in income of the CFC being indirectly taxed to a section 245A 
shareholder (or a related party that is a domestic corporation, a 
``domestic affiliate'') and a reduction in the E&P of the CFC available 
to be distributed to the section 245A shareholder and any domestic 
affiliates as a dividend to which the section 245A deduction could be 
available if distributed, the extraordinary disposition rule no longer 
applies to E&P attributable to gain to which the disqualified basis is 
also attributable. Requiring reduction in the capacity to pay dividends 
for which the section 245A deduction could be available if the E&P were 
distributed ensures that the EDA reduction rule applies only once the 
disqualified basis rule has resulted in a tax detriment to the section 
245A shareholder (or a domestic affiliate). To the extent that there 
has not been a reduction in the CFC's capacity to pay dividends for 
which the section 245A deduction could be available if the E&P were 
distributed, the disqualified basis rule might generally not give rise 
to a tax detriment to the section 245A shareholder (or a domestic 
affiliate). This is because the section 245A shareholder's (or domestic 
affiliate's) basis in its stock of the CFC is generally increased under 
section 961 by the amount of the income indirectly taxed to the section 
245A shareholder (or a domestic affiliate). Such basis increase is, for 
example, available to reduce gain that would otherwise be recognized on 
a disposition of stock of the CFC (including gain that would be taxed 
at the full corporate tax rate even though, for instance, the basis 
increase is attributable to an inclusion under section 951A that in 
effect is taxed at a preferential rate).
    More specifically, for a taxable year of a CFC, a section 245A 
shareholder's extraordinary disposition account is generally reduced by 
the lesser of two amounts. See proposed Sec.  1.245A-7(c)(1). The first 
amount is intended to approximate in an administrable manner the extent 
to which the disqualified basis rule (by reason of the allocation and 
apportionment of items of deduction or loss to residual CFC gross 
income of the CFC) reduced the E&P of the CFC available to be 
distributed to the section 245A shareholder and any domestic affiliates 
as a dividend to which the section 245A deduction could be available. 
See proposed Sec.  1.245A-7(c)(1)(i). In order to reduce administrative 
and compliance burdens, the proposed regulations disregard the holding 
period requirement of section 246(c) for purposes of determining if a 
section 245A deduction would be available if E&P were distributed. To 
compute the first amount, the CFC's E&P at the end of the taxable year 
are determined, taking into account distributions during the taxable 
year. Then, those E&P are adjusted, including by generally increasing 
the E&P by items of deduction or loss that are or have been allocated 
to residual CFC gross income of the CFC solely by reason of the 
disqualified basis rule (``adjusted earnings''). See proposed Sec.  
1.245A-7(c)(3). Lastly, the adjusted earnings are reduced by the sum of 
the previously taxed earnings and profits accounts with respect to the 
CFC under section 959 (taking into account any adjustments to the 
accounts for the taxable year) in order to reflect that an amount equal 
to such sum would not have been eligible for the section 245A deduction 
were it distributed by the CFC to the section 245A shareholder and any 
domestic affiliates. See proposed Sec.  1.245A-7(c)(1)(i).
    The second amount necessary to determine the reduction in a section 
245A shareholder's extraordinary disposition account is the balance of 
the section 245A shareholder's residual gross income account (``RGI 
account'') with respect to the CFC. See proposed Sec.  1.245A-
7(c)(1)(ii). The balance of the RGI account generally reflects items of 
deduction or loss allocated and apportioned to residual CFC gross 
income of the CFC solely by reason of the disqualified basis rule, to 
the extent that the allocation and apportionment is likely to increase 
income of the CFC that is subject to U.S. taxation at the level of the 
section 245A shareholder and any domestic affiliates pursuant to 
section 951 or 951A. See proposed Sec.  1.245A-7(c)(4)(i). Tracking 
such items of deduction or loss through an account mechanism allows for 
a reduction under, and facilitates compliance with, the EDA reduction 
rule in certain cases--for example, a case in which a CFC does not have 
any adjusted earnings for its taxable year in which items of deduction 
or loss are allocated and apportioned to residual CFC gross income 
(such that there cannot be a reduction under the EDA reduction rule to 
the section 245A shareholder's extraordinary disposition account that 
year) but in a later taxable year has sufficient adjusted earnings to 
allow for a reduction.
2. Timing Rules for Reducing an Extraordinary Disposition Account
    A reduction to an extraordinary disposition account of a section 
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shareholder by reason of the application of the EDA reduction rule with 
respect to a taxable year of the CFC occurs as of the end of the 
taxable year of the section 245A shareholder that includes the date on 
which the CFC's taxable year ends (and, for example, after the 
determination of any extraordinary disposition amounts or tiered 
extraordinary disposition amounts for the taxable year). See proposed 
Sec.  1.245A-9(b)(3). Thus, a reduction to a section 245A shareholder's 
extraordinary disposition account under the EDA reduction rule occurs 
after the application of the DQB reduction rule for the taxable year of 
the section 245A shareholder. See id. Absent such an approach, there 
could be circularity issues because the computation of a reduction 
under one rule might depend on an amount that is potentially affected 
by the other rule, and it would be unclear which rule applies first. 
Applying the EDA reduction rule at the end of a taxable year also 
ensures that it applies after the full effect of the disqualified basis 
rule has been taken into account for the year.

III. Rules for Complex Cases

A. The DQB Reduction Rule

1. In General
    The version of the DQB reduction rule for complex cases uses the 
same architecture as the version of the rule for simple cases but 
provides additional rules to address scenarios in which the conditions 
provided in proposed Sec.  1.245A-6(b)(1) and (2) are not satisfied. 
See proposed Sec.  1.245A-8. For example, the version for complex cases 
addresses scenarios in which, after the extraordinary disposition of an 
item of specified property, the item is transferred to another person 
(whether the transfer is taxable or non-taxable). See proposed Sec.  
1.245A-6(b)(2).
2. Ownership Requirement
    To address the possibility that an item of specified property may 
have been transferred after the extraordinary disposition (with the 
result that the section 245A shareholder or a related party may not 
directly or indirectly own an interest in the item), the version of the 
DQB reduction rule for complex cases provides that an ownership 
requirement must be satisfied for disqualified basis of an item of 
specified property to be eligible for relief under the DQB reduction 
rule. See proposed Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(1) and (3). The ownership 
requirement is intended to ensure that the DQB reduction rule applies 
with respect to an item of specified property only if it is likely that 
the section 245A shareholder (or the section 245A shareholder and a 
related party) would be meaningfully affected by the application of the 
disqualified basis rule as to the item of specified property, such 
that, absent the DQB reduction rule, the extraordinary disposition rule 
and the disqualified basis rule would, when applied together, result in 
meaningful excess taxation as to the section 245A shareholder (or the 
section 245A shareholder and a related party). In addition, the 
ownership requirement is intended to ensure that the DQB reduction rule 
takes into account only disqualified bases of items of specified 
property for which the section 245A shareholder can reasonably be 
expected to have or obtain the necessary information to accurately 
apply the DQB reduction rule.
    The ownership requirement is satisfied with respect to an item of 
specified property if, on one or more days during the taxable year of 
the section 245A shareholder, the item is held by the section 245A 
shareholder, a related party, or a specified entity in which the 
section 245A shareholder or a related party owns directly or indirectly 
at least a 10-percent interest. See proposed Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(3). As a 
result, the DQB reduction rule can apply to, for example, an item of 
specified property that is sold at a loss by a CFC of the section 245A 
shareholder to a third party on any day that falls within the taxable 
year of the section 245A shareholder, such that a reduced portion of 
the CFC's loss will be attributable to disqualified basis and thus 
subject to the disqualified basis rule for the CFC's taxable year. As 
an additional example, the DQB rule can also apply to an item of 
specified property that is held by a CFC of the section 245A 
shareholder all the stock of which is sold by the section 245A 
shareholder to a third party on any day that falls within the taxable 
year of the section 245A shareholder, such that a reduced portion of 
the CFC's amortization deductions with respect to the specified 
property for its taxable year that includes the sale and its subsequent 
taxable years will be subject to the disqualified basis rule.
3. Basis Benefit Amounts
i. In General
    In certain cases in which an item of specified property with 
disqualified basis is transferred after the extraordinary disposition 
of the item, the extraordinary disposition rule and the disqualified 
basis rule, when applied together, do not give rise to excess taxation 
as to a section 245A shareholder (or as to the section 245A shareholder 
and a related party). This may occur, for example, if the section 245A 
shareholder ``benefits'' from the disqualified basis of the item of 
specified property pursuant to a transaction that is not subject to the 
disqualified basis rule, such as through a sale of the item by a CFC of 
the section 245A shareholder to an unrelated person at a gain (with the 
result that, but for the use of the disqualified basis, the CFC would 
have had a greater amount of gain that would have been taken into 
account in computing the CFC's tested income). In such a case, the DQB 
reduction rule need not apply to an amount of the section 245A 
shareholder's extraordinary disposition account equal to the amount of 
the disqualified basis benefit. See proposed Sec.  1.245A-10(c)(2) 
(Example 2).
    To address these situations, the proposed regulations provide that, 
for a taxable year of a section 245A shareholder, the amount of the 
reduction to disqualified bases under the DQB reduction rule is equal 
to the sum of the extraordinary disposition amounts or tiered 
extraordinary disposition amounts for the taxable year, less the 
balance of the section 245A shareholder's ``basis benefit account'' 
with respect to the extraordinary disposition account. See proposed 
Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(1). A basis benefit account with respect to an 
extraordinary disposition account generally reflects the extent to 
which the disqualified basis of one or more items of specified property 
that correspond to the extraordinary disposition account has been used 
to offset or reduce income subject to U.S. tax (the use of disqualified 
basis to such an extent, a ``basis benefit amount''). See proposed 
Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(4)(ii).
    For these purposes, the use of disqualified basis by a U.S. tax 
resident to offset or reduce taxable income, or the use of disqualified 
basis by a foreign person (including a CFC) to offset or reduce income 
effectively connected with a trade or business in the United States 
(``ECTI''), is always considered to offset or reduce income subject to 
U.S. tax. See proposed Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(4)(ii). As an example, in the 
case of an item of specified property that is held by a U.S. tax 
resident and that has disqualified basis by reason of the application 
of Sec.  1.951A-3(h)(2)(ii)(B)(1)(ii) to a previous transfer of the 
item of specified property by a related CFC to the U.S. tax resident, 
there is a basis benefit amount equal to the portion of the 
disqualified basis that gives rise to an item of depreciation or 
amortization of the U.S. tax resident for a taxable year of the U.S. 
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However, the use of disqualified basis by a CFC to offset or reduce 
income taken into account in computing subpart F income, tested income, 
or tested loss is considered to offset or reduce income subject to U.S. 
tax only if the CFC is described in Sec.  1.267A-5(a)(17) and thus a 
meaningful portion of the CFC's income is indirectly subject to current 
U.S. tax. See id.
    Disqualified basis can be used to reduce or offset income subject 
to U.S. tax regardless of whether the disqualified basis is reduced or 
eliminated under Sec.  1.951A-3(h)(2)(ii)(B)(1). For example, in a case 
in which a CFC sells an item of specified property with disqualified 
basis to a related CFC, the rule of Sec.  1.951A-3(h)(2)(ii)(B)(1) 
generally does not prevent the disqualified basis from reducing or 
offsetting income subject to U.S. tax (for instance, income from the 
sale that but for the use of the disqualified basis would have been 
taken into account in computing the seller CFC's tested income), even 
though the buyer CFC succeeds to the disqualified basis under the rule. 
Thus, the proposed regulations provide that a basis benefit amount can 
be created from the use of disqualified basis regardless of whether the 
disqualified basis is reduced or eliminated as a result. See proposed 
Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(4)(ii)(B); see also proposed Sec.  1.245A-
8(b)(4)(iii)(B) (anti-duplication rule to address cases in which 
disqualified basis gives rise a basis benefit amount but is not 
eliminated or reduced).
    Further, the proposed regulations provide certain timing rules 
regarding when the use of disqualified basis gives rise to a basis 
benefit amount. See proposed Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(4)(ii)(C). For example, 
if an item of deduction or loss arising from the use of disqualified 
basis is deferred under section 267(a)(2), then the determination of 
whether a basis benefit amount arises is made when, in a later taxable 
year, the deduction or loss is no longer deferred. Similarly, if an 
item of deduction or loss arising from the use of disqualified basis of 
an item of specified property is disallowed under section 267(a)(1), 
then a basis benefit amount would arise when and to the extent that 
gain is reduced on the sale of that specified property (or other 
property with basis determined by reference to that specified property) 
under section 267(d) in the hands of certain persons whose income is 
directly or indirectly subject to U.S. tax.
ii. Adjustments to a Basis Benefit Account
    A basis benefit account is adjusted at the end of each taxable year 
of a section 245A shareholder. See proposed Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(4)(i). 
Generally, the basis benefit account is increased by a basis benefit 
amount with respect to an item of specified property that corresponds 
to the extraordinary disposition account, provided that the basis 
benefit amount is assigned to the taxable year of the section 245A 
shareholder. See proposed Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(4)(i)(A). However, in the 
case in which the extraordinary disposition ownership percentage with 
respect to the extraordinary disposition account is less than 100 
percent (such that the initial balance of the extraordinary disposition 
account reflects only a portion of the gain from the extraordinary 
disposition of the item of specified property), only the same ratable 
portion of the basis benefit amount may increase the basis benefit 
account. See id.
    A basis benefit amount with respect to an item of specified 
property is assigned to a taxable year of a section 245A shareholder if 
two conditions are satisfied. See proposed Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(4)(iii). 
First, the ownership requirement described in part III.A.2 of this 
Explanation of Provisions must be satisfied with respect to the item of 
specified property. As a result of this first condition, a basis 
benefit amount is assigned to a taxable year of a section 245A 
shareholder (and thus only limits a potential reduction under the DQB 
reduction rule) only if the use of the disqualified basis giving rise 
to the basis benefit amount provides a meaningful benefit to the 
section 245A shareholder or a related party. This first condition is 
also intended to ensure that the section 245A shareholder can 
reasonably be expected to obtain information about the item of 
specified property necessary to accurately calculate and reflect the 
basis benefit amount. Second, the use of the disqualified basis must 
occur in the section 245A shareholder's taxable year (in a case in 
which the section 245A shareholder is the person that uses the 
disqualified basis) or a taxable year of a person ending with or 
within--or in certain cases, beginning with or within--the taxable year 
of the section 245A shareholder (in a case in which the section 245A 
shareholder is not the person that uses the disqualified basis). As a 
result of these assignment rules, in a case in which a CFC of a section 
245A shareholder holds an item of specified property and the CFC sells 
the item of specified property (or the section 245A shareholder sells 
all of the stock of the CFC) to a third party on a day that falls 
within the taxable year of the section 245A shareholder, a use by the 
CFC of disqualified basis of the specified property to generate a basis 
benefit amount on a day that falls within the same taxable year of the 
section 245A shareholder is generally assigned to such taxable year of 
the section 245A shareholder.
    Further, at the end of each taxable year of a section 245A 
shareholder, the balance of a basis benefit account is decreased to the 
extent that the basis benefit account limits a reduction under the DQB 
reduction rule. See proposed Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(4)(i)(B).
4. Timing Rules for Determining and Reducing Disqualified Basis
    To address the possibility that an item of specified property may 
be held by a person other than a CFC, the timing rules for purposes of 
the version of the DQB reduction rule for complex cases provide that 
disqualified basis of an item of specified property is generally 
determined and reduced as of the beginning of the taxable year of the 
``specified property owner'' of the item. See proposed Sec.  1.245A-
9(b)(2)(i) and (ii). The specified property owner of an item of 
specified property is generally the person that held the item of 
specified property on at least one day during the taxable year of the 
person that includes the date on which the section 245A shareholder's 
taxable year ends. See proposed Sec.  1.245A-9(b)(2)(iii).
    In addition, to address cases in which, absent a special rule, two 
or more persons might be considered the specified property owner, a 
special rule provides that in such cases the specified property owner 
is the person that held the item of specified property on the earliest 
date that falls within the section 245A shareholder's taxable year. See 
Sec.  1.245A-9(b)(2)(iii) (last sentence). Thus, for example, if a CFC 
(``CFC1'') transfers an item of specified property to another CFC 
(``CFC2'') on a date that falls within the taxable year of a section 
245A shareholder and the taxable year of each of CFC1 and CFC2 includes 
the day of the close of the taxable year of the section 245A 
shareholder, then CFC1 (and not CFC2) would be the specified property 
owner for purposes of applying the DQB reduction rule for the taxable 
year of the section 245A shareholder.

B. The EDA Reduction Rule

1. In General
    The version of the EDA reduction rule for complex cases uses the 
same architecture as the version of the rule for

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simple cases but provides additional rules to address scenarios in 
which the conditions provided in Sec.  1.245A-6(b) are not satisfied. 
See proposed Sec.  1.245A-8. For example, the version for complex cases 
addresses scenarios in which the CFC that holds an item of specified 
property that corresponds to an extraordinary disposition account of a 
section 245A shareholder is not wholly-owned by the section 245A 
shareholder and any domestic affiliates, or the CFC also holds an item 
of specified property that corresponds to another extraordinary 
disposition account. See proposed Sec.  1.245A-6(b)(2).
2. Computing the Reduction in Certain Dividend-Paying Capacity of a CFC
    As discussed in II.B.1 of this Explanation of Provisions, the EDA 
reduction rule depends in part on the extent to which the disqualified 
basis rule has, as to a CFC that holds items of specified property that 
correspond to an extraordinary disposition account of a section 245A 
shareholder with respect to an SFC, reduced E&P of the CFC available to 
be distributed to the section 245A shareholder and any domestic 
affiliates as a dividend to which the section 245A deduction could be 
available. The EDA reduction rule for complex cases provides several 
additional rules for purposes of measuring this reduction to the CFC's 
capacity to pay dividends eligible for the section 245A deduction, to 
address the possibility that the section 245A shareholder and any 
domestic affiliates may not own all of the stock of the CFC (including 
because the section 245A shareholder or a domestic affiliate disposed 
of stock of the CFC during the CFC's taxable year) as well as other 
issues.
    First, the version for complex cases provides an ownership 
requirement pursuant to which, for the section 245A shareholder's 
extraordinary disposition account to be reduced by reason of the 
application of the EDA reduction rule with respect to a taxable year of 
the CFC, the section 245A shareholder (or a domestic affiliate) must, 
on the last day of the CFC's taxable year, be a United States 
shareholder with respect to the CFC. See proposed Sec.  1.245A-8(c)(1) 
and (3). The ownership requirement is measured on the last day of a 
CFC's taxable year because the EDA reduction rule depends on a section 
245A shareholder's portion of the CFC's adjusted earnings, which are 
measured on an annual basis.
    Second, the version for complex cases provides special rules for 
deficits of the CFC subject to Sec.  1.381(c)(2)-1(a)(5). See proposed 
Sec.  1.245A-8(c)(3). These rules generally provide that the CFC's 
adjusted earnings are determined by not taking into account these 
deficits in determining E&P because, in general, the deficits do not 
affect or limit the CFC's ability to distribute its other E&P as a 
dividend. In addition, for purposes of determining a CFC's adjusted 
earnings, the CFC's E&P are reduced by the amount of items of deduction 
or loss that are attributable to disqualified basis and that give or 
have given rise to a deficit subject to Sec.  1.381(c)(2)-1(a)(5). This 
is because the application of the disqualified basis rule to these 
items has not affected or limited the CFC's ability to distribute 
certain earnings as a dividend and reducing the CFC's E&P by the amount 
of the items generally ensures that the application of the disqualified 
basis rule to these items does not give rise to relief under the EDA 
reduction rule. A CFC could have a deficit subject to Sec.  
1.381(c)(2)-1(a)(5) and comprised of items of deduction or loss 
attributable to disqualified basis if, for example, the CFC acquired in 
a transaction subject to section 381 the assets of another CFC that 
held items of specified property with disqualified basis.
    Third, the version for complex cases provides a rule that allocates 
the CFC's adjusted earnings to the section 245A shareholder, based on 
the percentage of stock of the CFC that the section 245A shareholder 
and any domestic affiliates own. See proposed Sec.  1.245A-
8(c)(1)(i)(A). This allocation serves as a proxy for measuring the 
portion of the adjusted earnings of the CFC that the section 245A 
shareholder and any domestic affiliates would receive if the CFC were 
to distribute all of its adjusted earnings to its shareholders. The 
adjusted earnings as so allocated to a section 245A shareholder are 
further adjusted to reflect certain previously taxed earnings and 
profits accounts with respect to the CFC, certain hybrid deduction 
accounts with respect to shares of stock of the CFC, and the balance of 
any extraordinary disposition accounts with respect to the CFC (other 
than, in general and as illustrated in part III.B.6 of this Explanation 
of Provisions, the portion of the balance of an extraordinary 
disposition account with respect to the CFC that, by reason of a merger 
or similar transaction of the SFC into the CFC or vice versa, is 
attributable to an extraordinary disposition account with respect to 
the SFC). The end result is intended to measure the extent to which the 
disqualified basis rule has reduced E&P of the CFC available to be 
distributed to the section 245A shareholder and any domestic affiliates 
as a dividend to which the section 245A deduction could be available.
3. Computing the Increase to an RGI Account
    As discussed in part II.B.1 of this Explanation of Provisions, the 
EDA reduction rule depends in part on the balance of a section 245A 
shareholder's RGI account with respect to a CFC. The EDA reduction rule 
for complex cases provides several additional rules for purposes of 
computing an increase to a section 245A shareholder's RGI account with 
respect to a CFC. See proposed Sec.  1.245A-8(c)(4).
    First, to address the possibility that the CFC may hold multiple 
items of specified property, some of which correspond to an 
extraordinary disposition account of the section 245A shareholder and 
others of which correspond to another extraordinary disposition account 
(or to no extraordinary disposition account), the rule for complex 
cases provides that the section 245A shareholder's RGI account can be 
increased only by items of deduction or loss (to which the disqualified 
basis rule applies) that are attributable to disqualified basis of an 
item of specified property that corresponds to the section 245A 
shareholder's extraordinary disposition account. See proposed Sec.  
1.245A-8(c)(4)(i)(A)(1)(i). In addition, in cases in which the section 
245A shareholder owned less than all of the stock of the SFC when the 
SFC undertook an extraordinary disposition (such that the extraordinary 
disposition ownership percentage as to the section 245A shareholder's 
extraordinary disposition account with respect to the SFC is less than 
100 percent), the section 245A shareholder's RGI account can be 
increased by only the same ratable portion of the items of deduction or 
loss. See proposed Sec.  1.245A-8(c)(4)(i)(A)(2)(ii). These rules 
ensure that a reduction under the EDA reduction rule to the section 
245A shareholder's extraordinary disposition account can occur only by 
reason of the application of the disqualified basis rule to the portion 
of disqualified basis of an item of specified property that is 
attributable to gain to which the extraordinary disposition account is 
also attributable.
    Further, to address the possibility that the section 245A 
shareholder and any domestic affiliates may not own all of the stock of 
the CFC holding items of specified property that correspond to an 
extraordinary disposition account of the section 245A shareholder, a 
limit applies regarding the extent to which an

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item of deduction or loss (or portion thereof) may increase the section 
245A shareholder's RGI account. See proposed Sec.  1.245A-
8(c)(4)(i)(A)(2). The limit is generally based on the portion of the 
CFC's subpart F income or tested income taken into account by the 
section 245A shareholders and any domestic affiliates under section 951 
or 951A. See proposed Sec.  1.245A-8(c)(4)(i)(A)(2)(i). This limit 
ensures that a reduction under the EDA reduction rule to the section 
245A shareholder's extraordinary disposition account can occur only to 
the extent that the application of the disqualified basis rule has 
likely increased income of the CFC that is subject to U.S. taxation at 
the level of the section 245A shareholder and any domestic affiliates.
4. Allocating Certain Reductions Among Extraordinary Disposition 
Accounts
    Because a reduction under the EDA reduction rule to an 
extraordinary disposition account may be a function of certain adjusted 
earnings of a CFC (that is, an amount that is not with respect to the 
extraordinary disposition account), absent a special rule in certain 
complex cases, the adjusted earnings could give rise to a reduction to 
two or more extraordinary disposition accounts that, in aggregate, 
exceeds the adjusted earnings. This could occur, for example, in a case 
in which a section 245A shareholder has two extraordinary disposition 
accounts (that is, an extraordinary disposition account with respect to 
two SFCs) and owns all the stock of a CFC, which, in turn, owns the 
items of specified property that correspond to each of the 
extraordinary disposition accounts. In that case the aggregate amount 
of reductions to the extraordinary disposition accounts could exceed 
the extent to which the application of the disqualified basis rule has, 
as measured by certain adjusted earnings of the CFC allocated to the 
section 245A shareholder, reduced the earnings of the CFC available to 
be distributed to the section 245A shareholder as a dividend to which 
the section 245A deduction could apply. To address these cases, the 
proposed regulations provide a rule that limits the aggregate 
reductions to extraordinary disposition accounts by reason of the 
application of the EDA reduction rule with respect to a taxable year of 
a CFC to certain adjusted earnings of the CFC. See proposed Sec.  
1.245A-8(c)(6). The proposed regulations also provide an example 
illustrating this rule. See proposed Sec.  1.245A-10(c)(3)(iv).
    Finally, the proposed regulations provide a rule that prevents an 
extraordinary disposition account from being reduced below the balance 
of the basis benefit account that relates to the extraordinary 
disposition account. See proposed Sec.  1.245A-8(c)(7). This limitation 
may occur if extraordinary disposition E&P (and therefore the initial 
balance of the extraordinary disposition account) reflect losses 
recognized with respect to one or more items of specified property 
transferred in the extraordinary disposition.
5. Certain Items of Property Treated as Items of Specified Property 
That Correspond to an Extraordinary Disposition Account
    In certain complex cases, an item of property may have disqualified 
basis even though the item itself was not transferred as part of an 
extraordinary disposition. For example, a share of stock may have 
disqualified basis if the share was received in exchange for an item of 
specified property with disqualified basis in a transaction to which 
section 351 applies. See Sec.  1.951A-3(h)(2)(ii)(B)(2)(ii). Absent 
special rules, the share of stock would not correspond to an 
extraordinary disposition account of a section 245A shareholder and 
thus, for example, the disqualified basis of the share of stock could 
not be reduced under the DQB reduction rule.
    The proposed regulations provide special rules to address this and 
similar issues. For instance, the proposed regulations provide that 
certain items of property that have disqualified basis by reason of 
Sec.  1.951A-3(h)(2)(ii)(B)(2)(i) (increase corresponding to 
adjustments in other property), (ii) (exchanged basis property), or 
(iii) (increase by reason of section 732(d)) are generally treated as 
items of specified property that correspond to an extraordinary 
disposition account of a section 245A shareholder. See proposed Sec.  
1.245A-8(d). As a result, the disqualified basis of such items of 
property may be reduced under the DQB reduction rule, and items of 
deduction and loss attributable to such disqualified basis and 
allocated and apportioned to residual CFC gross income of a CFC may 
give rise to a reduction to an extraordinary disposition account under 
the EDA reduction rule.
    The proposed regulations also include an anti-duplication rule to 
ensure that disqualified basis of an item of specified property, as 
well as disqualified basis of another item of property attributable to 
that disqualified basis (``duplicate DQB''), are not both taken into 
account for purposes of the DQB reduction rule, as taking into account 
both amounts of disqualified basis could inappropriately limit the 
reductions under the DQB reduction rule. See proposed Sec.  1.245A-
8(b)(5)(i)(A). In addition, to the extent that, pursuant to the anti-
duplication rule, duplicate DQB is not taken into account for purposes 
of the DQB reduction, the duplicate DQB is generally reduced to the 
same extent that the disqualified basis of the item of specified 
property to which the duplicate DQB is attributable is reduced. See 
proposed Sec. Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(5)(i)(B) and 1.245A-10(c)(5) (Example 
5).
    As an example of the application of these special rules, consider a 
case in which a single item of specified property (``Item A'') 
corresponds to an extraordinary disposition account of a section 245A 
shareholder, and Item A is transferred, in a transaction to which 
section 351 applies, in exchange for a share of stock (``Item B''). In 
addition, assume that the extraordinary disposition account gives rise 
to a $10x extraordinary disposition amount and that, at that time, Item 
A has $10x of disqualified basis and Item B also has $10x of 
disqualified basis (all of which is attributable to the disqualified 
basis of Item A). Here, Item B is considered an item of specified 
property that corresponds to the extraordinarily disposition account, 
but generally only the disqualified basis of Item A is taken into 
account for purposes of the DQB reduction rule, with the result that 
the entire $10x reduction under the DQB reduction rule is allocated to 
Item A (such that Item A's disqualified basis is reduced by $10x). 
However, pursuant to the special rule of proposed Sec.  1.245A-
8(b)(5)(i)(B), Item B's disqualified basis is then reduced by the same 
amount.
6. Extraordinary Disposition Account Adjusted Pursuant to Successor 
Rules Under Sec.  1.245A-5(c)(4)
    In certain complex cases, an extraordinary disposition account of a 
section 245A shareholder may be adjusted pursuant to the rules of Sec.  
1.245A-5(c)(4), with the result, for example, that another section 245A 
shareholder succeeds to a portion of the extraordinary disposition 
account or a portion of the extraordinary disposition account is 
attributed to another extraordinary disposition account. The proposed 
regulations provide two sets of special rules to address these cases.
    First, in cases in which a portion of an extraordinary disposition 
account is attributed (the ``attributed account'') to another 
extraordinary disposition account (the ``successor account''), the 
proposed regulations ensure that the disqualified bases of the items of 
specified property that correspond to the attributed account are 
eligible to be

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reduced under the DQB reduction rule by reason of an amount in the 
successor account that gives rise to an extraordinary deposition amount 
or tiered extraordinary disposition amount, to the extent attributable 
to the attributed account. See proposed Sec.  1.245A-8(e)(1). This rule 
also ensures that the successor account, to the extent attributable to 
the attributed account, may be reduced under the EDA reduction rule by 
reason of an allocation and apportionment of an item of deduction or 
loss attributable to disqualified basis of an item of specified 
property that corresponds to the attributed account. See id. This rule 
ensures these results by treating the attributed account and successor 
account as separate extraordinary disposition accounts for purposes of 
the proposed regulations. See id.
    As an example of this rule, consider a case in which US1, a 
domestic corporation, owns all of the stock of CFC1, a CFC as to which 
US1 has an extraordinary disposition account with a $40x balance (the 
``CFC1 EDA''), and CFC2, a CFC as to which US1 has an extraordinary 
disposition account with a $60x balance (the ``CFC2 EDA''). If CFC1 
were to merge into CFC2 and thus under the rules of Sec.  1.245A-
5(c)(4) the $40x balance of the CFC1 EDA were attributed to the CFC2 
EDA (such that the balance of the CFC2 EDA would become $100x), then 
$40x of the $100x balance of the CFC2 EDA would be treated for purposes 
of the proposed regulations as an extraordinary disposition account 
with respect to CFC1 (the CFC2 EDA to such extent, the ``deemed CFC1 
EDA''), even though CFC1 would no longer be in existence. As a result, 
after the merger, the deemed CFC1 EDA would, by reason of the 
application of the EDA reduction rule to a taxable year of CFC2, 
generally be reduced by the lesser of (i) the adjusted earnings of 
CFC2, less the balance of (a) the previously taxed earnings and profits 
accounts with respect to CFC2, (b) the hybrid deduction accounts with 
respect to shares of stock of the CFC2, (c) the balance of the CFC2 EDA 
(but not including the portion of the balance of the CFC2 EDA that is 
treated as the deemed CFC1 EDA), to the extent taken into account as 
described in proposed Sec.  1.245A-8(c)(1)(i)(B)(3), and (d) the 
balance of the deemed CFC1 EDA, to the extent taken into account as 
described in proposed Sec.  1.245A-8(c)(1)(i)(B)(3); and (ii) the 
balance of the RGI account (if any) with respect to CFC2 that relates 
to the deemed CFC1 EDA.
    Second, special rules address the extraordinary disposition 
ownership percentage. As discussed in parts III.A.3.i and III.B.3 of 
this Explanation of Provisions, the DQB reduction rule and the EDA 
reduction rule take into account the extraordinary disposition 
ownership percentage as to a section 245A shareholder's extraordinary 
disposition account, which generally represents the portion of gain on 
the extraordinary disposition of an item of specified property that is 
reflected in the initial balance of the extraordinary disposition 
account. Special rules ensure, after an extraordinary disposition 
account is adjusted pursuant to Sec.  1.245A-5(c)(4), the extraordinary 
disposition ownership percentage continues to accurately reflect the 
portion of gain that is reflected in the (adjusted) balance of the 
extraordinary disposition account. See proposed Sec.  1.245A-8(e)(1) 
and (2).
    As an example of the application of these special rules regarding 
the extraordinary disposition ownership percentage, consider a case 
which the extraordinary disposition ownership percentage as to a 
section 245A shareholder's extraordinary disposition account with 
respect to an SFC (``EDA 1'') is 80 percent, and by reason of Sec.  
1.245A-5(c)(4)(i) another section 245A shareholder (that did not 
previously have an extraordinary disposition account with respect to 
the SFC) succeeds to a portion of EDA 1 equal to 40 percent of the 
balance of EDA 1 (the portion of EDA 1 to which the other section 245A 
shareholder succeeds, ``EDA 2''). Here, the extraordinary disposition 
ownership percentage as to EDA 1 is thereafter 48 percent for purposes 
of the proposed regulations (80%, less 80% multiplied by 40%), and the 
extraordinary disposition ownership percentage as to EDA 2 is 32 
percent for purposes of the proposed regulations (80% multiplied by 
40%). As an additional example, if in the example in the previous 
sentence the other section 245A shareholder instead had an 
extraordinary disposition account with respect to the SFC and the 
extraordinary disposition ownership percentage as to such extraordinary 
disposition account was 20 percent (``EDA 2''), then, pursuant to 
proposed Sec.  1.245A-8(e)(1), the extraordinary disposition ownership 
percentage as to EDA 2 would become 52 percent for purposes of the 
proposed regulations (20%, plus the product of 80% and 40%).

IV. Other Rules

A. Coordination With Disqualified Payment Rule

    The coordination mechanism of the proposed regulations also applies 
to cases in which a prepayment during the disqualified period gives 
rise to extraordinary disposition E&P of an SFC under the anti-
avoidance rule of Sec.  1.245A-5(h) and items of deduction or loss of a 
CFC are allocated and apportioned to residual CFC gross income under 
the disqualified payment rule. See proposed Sec.  1.245A-5(j)(8) 
(Example 7). The coordination mechanism generally applies in the same 
manner as if the disqualified payment had given rise to disqualified 
basis of an item of specified property that corresponds to the 
extraordinary disposition account. See id.

B. Currency Translation Rules

    Accounts created under the proposed regulations are maintained in 
the functional currency of the items to which they relate. See proposed 
Sec.  1.245A-9(b)(4). Therefore, a basis benefit account is maintained 
in the same functional currency as the extraordinary disposition 
account to which it relates. Similarly, an RGI account is maintained in 
the functional currency of the CFC whose allocations to residual CFC 
gross income are being measured and tracked by that account.
    The application of the DQB reduction rule and the EDA reduction 
rule may also require currency translation because these rules require 
amounts determined in the functional currency of one person to be 
applied to reduce attributes of another person that may have a 
different functional currency. In this regard, the proposed regulations 
provide that the disqualified basis of, and a basis benefit amount with 
respect to, an item of specified property that corresponds to an 
extraordinary disposition account are translated into the functional 
currency in which the extraordinary disposition account is maintained, 
using the spot rate on the date the extraordinary disposition occurred. 
See proposed Sec.  1.245A-9(b)(4). Moreover, proposed Sec.  1.245A-
9(b)(4) provides that a reduction in disqualified basis of an item of 
specified property under the DQB reduction rule is translated into the 
functional currency in which the disqualified basis of the item of 
specified property is maintained, and reductions in an extraordinary 
disposition account are translated into the functional currency in 
which the extraordinary disposition account is maintained, in each case 
using the spot rate on the date the associated extraordinary 
disposition occurred.

C. Anti-Avoidance Rule

    Proposed Sec.  1.245A-9(b)(5) contains an anti-avoidance rule 
providing that appropriate adjustments are made if a

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transaction or arrangement is engaged in with a principal purpose of 
avoiding the purposes of these proposed regulations. As an example, the 
anti-avoidance rule applies if a section 245A shareholder causes its 
taxable year to end on a particular date with a principal purpose of 
avoiding a basis benefit amount from being assigned to that taxable 
year.

D. Existing Election To Eliminate Disqualified Basis

    Taxpayers may have elected to reduce an item of specified 
property's adjusted basis (and thus eliminate the item's disqualified 
basis) pursuant to Sec.  1.951A-3(h)(2)(ii)(B)(3) (a ``basis 
elimination election'') before the proposed regulations were issued. In 
certain cases, the proposed regulations once finalized may provide more 
favorable outcomes for taxpayers than a basis elimination election. 
Therefore, the proposed regulations permit taxpayers to revoke a basis 
elimination election during a transition period, which under the 
proposed regulations is 90 days after the proposed regulations are 
finalized. See proposed Sec.  1.245A-9(c)(1). This transition period is 
intended to provide a taxpayer sufficient time to consider whether it 
would prefer a basis elimination election or to apply the rules of the 
proposed regulations. The proposed regulations set forth the procedures 
for revoking a basis elimination election. See proposed Sec.  1.245A-
9(c)(1) and (2). These procedures require a taxpayer to file a 
revocation statement, as well as amended returns reflecting the 
revocation of the election. See id.

V. Applicability Dates

    The proposed regulations are proposed to apply to taxable years of 
foreign corporations beginning on or after the date of publication of 
the Treasury decision adopting these rules as final regulations in the 
Federal Register (the ``finalization date''), and to taxable years of a 
U.S. person in which or with which such taxable years of foreign 
corporations end. See proposed Sec.  1.245A-11(a). For taxable years 
beginning before the finalization date, a taxpayer may apply the rules 
set forth in the final regulations, provided that the taxpayer and all 
related parties consistently apply the rules to those taxable years. 
See proposed Sec.  1.245A-11(b); see also section 7805(b)(7).

VI. Comment Requests

    The Treasury Department and the IRS request comments on all aspects 
of the proposed regulations. In addition, comments are specifically 
requested on the issues discussed below.

A. The DQB Reduction Rule

    The DQB reduction rule applies only if a distribution gives rise to 
an extraordinary disposition amount or a tiered extraordinary 
disposition amount. The Treasury Department and the IRS are considering 
whether the DQB reduction rule should apply by reason of a prior 
extraordinary disposition amount described in Sec.  1.245A-
5(c)(3)(D)(i) through (iv), such that disqualified basis of an item of 
specified property would be reduced to the same extent a reduction 
would occur under the DQB reduction rule were the prior extraordinary 
disposition amount an extraordinary disposition amount or tiered 
extraordinary disposition amount. For example, an investment in United 
States property subject to sections 951(a)(1)(B) and 956(a) and Sec.  
1.956-1(a)(2) may give rise to a prior extraordinary disposition amount 
under Sec.  1.245A-5(c)(3)(i)(D)(1)(iv). As an additional example, 
prior dividends that would have been subject to Sec.  1.245A-5(c) but 
failed to qualify for the section 245A deduction because they did not 
satisfy the requirement that the recipient domestic corporation be a 
United States shareholder with respect to the distributing may give 
rise to a prior extraordinary disposition amount under Sec.  1.245A-
5(c)(3)(i)(D)(1)(i). The Treasury Department and the IRS are studying 
whether applying the DQB reduction rule would be appropriate with 
respect to any of these prior extraordinary disposition amounts, 
including whether it would be necessary to prevent meaningful excess 
taxation or give rise to undue complexity. The Treasury Department and 
the IRS welcome comments on the matter.

B. The EDA Reduction Rule

    Pursuant to section 952(c)(1)(A), the subpart F income of a CFC for 
any taxable year cannot exceed the CFC's E&P for the taxable year. In 
addition, any amount excluded from subpart F income under section 
952(c)(1)(A) is recaptured under section 952(c)(2) in future taxable 
years to the extent the CFC would otherwise have E&P in excess of 
subpart F income. Although the disqualified basis rule prevents 
deductions or losses attributable to disqualified basis from reducing 
subpart F income, tested income, or ECTI, those deductions or losses 
still reduce E&P and may be used by a CFC to avoid current inclusions 
of subpart F income under section 952(c)(1)(A). The Treasury Department 
and the IRS are studying the extent to which the EDA reduction rule 
(for example, under the RGI account rules) should take into account 
this benefit derived from disqualified basis, and request comments on 
the matter.

Special Analyses

I. Regulatory Planning and Review--Economic Analysis

    Executive Orders 13771, 13563, and 12866 direct agencies to assess 
costs and benefits of available regulatory alternatives and, if 
regulation is necessary, to select regulatory approaches that maximize 
net benefits (including potential economic, environmental, public 
health and safety effects, distributive impacts, and equity). Executive 
Order 13563 emphasizes the importance of quantifying both costs and 
benefits, of reducing costs, of harmonizing rules, and of promoting 
flexibility. The Executive Order 13771 designation for any final rule 
resulting from these proposed regulations will be informed by comments 
received. The preliminary Executive Order 13771 designation for this 
proposed rule is regulatory.
    The proposed regulations have been designated by the Office of 
Management and Budget's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs 
(OIRA) as subject to review under Executive Order 12866 pursuant to the 
Memorandum of Agreement (April 11, 2018) between the Treasury 
Department and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) regarding 
review of tax regulations. OIRA has determined that the proposed 
rulemaking is significant and subject to review under Executive Order 
12866 and section 1(b) of the Memorandum of Agreement. Accordingly, the 
proposed regulations have been reviewed by OMB.

A. Background and Overview of the Proposed Regulations

    The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (``the Act'') enacted section 245A, which 
generally allows U.S. corporations a 100-percent deduction (the 
``section 245A deduction'') for certain dividends received from 10-
percent owned foreign corporations (``SFCs''). As a result of this 
deduction, certain types of foreign-source income earned by foreign 
corporations may not be subject to U.S. tax at the U.S. shareholder 
level. Section 245A applies only to dividends paid after December 31, 
2017.
    The Act also enacted section 951A, which subjects U.S. shareholders 
of controlled foreign corporations (``CFCs'') to current taxation under 
section 951A on their global intangible low-taxed income (``GILTI''). 
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by subtracting a routine return on tangible assets from ``tested 
income,'' which is essentially the income of the U.S. shareholder's 
CFCs (other than subpart F income, income effectively connected with 
the conduct of a U.S. trade or business (``ECTI''), and certain other 
excluded items of income). Section 951A applies for CFC tax years 
beginning after December 31, 2017, meaning that tested income of a 
fiscal year CFC is not subject to the GILTI regime until potentially as 
late as December 1, 2018.
    The Act also enacted section 965, which imposed a new tax on the 
post-1986 earnings and profits of foreign corporations that had gone 
untaxed under the pre-Act international tax regime, measured as of no 
later than December 31, 2017. By subjecting post-1986 earnings and 
profits to a transition tax, section 965 generally ensured for 
calendar-year CFCs that only earnings first subjected to the anti-base 
erosion provisions of the Act could qualify for the section 245A 
deduction.
    The difference in the dates for which sections 965 and 951A apply 
provides the context for the proposed regulations. For a CFC with a 
calendar taxable year, section 951A first applies on January 1, 2018, 
immediately after the final measurement date for section 965. However, 
a fiscal year CFC has a period from January 1, 2018, until the 
beginning of its first taxable year in 2018 (the ``disqualified 
period'') in which it could engage in transactions that generate income 
subject to neither section 965 nor 951A. These transactions could be 
used to create two types of tax benefits. First, earnings generated 
from transactions during the disqualified period could support tax-free 
distributions of cash or other assets to the United States using the 
section 245A deduction. Second, assets transferred to related CFCs 
during the disqualified period would have fair market value tax basis 
in the hands of the transferee, generating future depreciation 
deductions or other losses against U.S. taxable income such as GILTI. 
In many cases, these two benefits arise from the same transaction 
undertaken during the disqualified period because a transfer of low-
basis assets can generate earnings eligible for the section 245A 
deduction for the seller and allow the buyer to take the assets with 
fair market value basis that generates future depreciation deductions 
(on assets that otherwise may have had no or low basis in the hands of 
the seller).
    To address the earnings and profits created in these transactions, 
temporary and proposed regulations were published under section 245A on 
June 18, 2019 (the ``2019 section 245A regulations'') that limit the 
ability to obtain the section 245A deduction for certain earnings and 
profits generated during the disqualified period. The 2019 section 245A 
regulations are being finalized with certain changes alongside the 
issuance of the proposed regulations. To address the fair market value 
basis generated in these transactions, final regulations were published 
under section 951A (``GILTI final regulations'') on June 21, 2019, that 
allocate depreciation or amortization deductions resulting from basis 
generated in certain disqualified period transactions to income not 
subject to U.S. tax.
    The 2019 section 245A regulations, as finalized, contain Sec.  
1.245A-5, which generally denies the section 245A deduction for 50 
percent of the earnings generated from an SFC's disposition of property 
to a related party during the disqualified period. This denial applies 
if (i) the disposition was outside the SFC's ordinary course of 
business and (ii) the disposition generated earnings that would have 
been subject to tax under section 951A had the disposition not occurred 
during the disqualified period (an ``extraordinary disposition''). 
Section 1.245A-5 establishes an extraordinary disposition account for 
taxpayers to track the amount of earnings and profits generated from 
extraordinary dispositions. The section 245A deduction is limited for 
dividends out of that account.
    Section 1.951A-2(c)(5) of the GILTI final regulations focuses on 
the consequences to the transferee in transactions that were generally 
extraordinary dispositions. It requires that deductions or losses 
attributable to the basis of an asset resulting from certain transfers 
during the disqualified period (``disqualified basis'') be allocated 
and apportioned to ``residual CFC gross income'' (that is, income other 
than tested income, subpart F income, or ECTI). As a result, the 
deductions or losses attributable to disqualified basis cannot reduce 
the CFC's income subject to U.S. tax. Instead, the deductions and 
losses reduce the untaxed earnings and profits of the CFC, including 
those earnings and profits that would otherwise be eligible for a 
section 245A deduction when distributed to a U.S. shareholder.
    The 2019 section 245A regulations requested comments regarding 
options for coordinating Sec.  1.245A-5 with Sec.  1.951A-2(c)(5). 
After carefully considering the comments on this topic, the Treasury 
Department and the IRS are providing the proposed regulations, which 
coordinate Sec.  1.245A-5 with Sec.  1.951A-2(c)(5).
    Generally, the proposed regulations provide relief from either 
Sec.  1.245A-5 or Sec.  1.951A-2(c)(5) to the extent that the other 
rule results in U.S. taxation on the same underlying transaction. Thus, 
to the extent that the section 245A deduction is limited with respect 
to distributions out of an extraordinary disposition account, a 
corresponding amount of disqualified basis attributable to the property 
that generated that extraordinary disposition account through an 
extraordinary disposition is converted to basis that is not subject to 
Sec.  1.951A-2(c)(5). The Treasury Department and the IRS project that 
this situation is likely to be relatively rare in the near future, 
because of the rule in Sec.  1.245A-5(c)(2)(i) specifying that 
distributions out of the extraordinary disposition account are made 
after all other E&P have been distributed. In the reverse scenario, to 
the extent that Sec.  1.951A-2(c)(5) allocates a CFC's deductions or 
losses from property acquired during the disqualified period to 
residual CFC gross income and thereby causes an increase to the CFC's 
tested income, subpart F income, or ECTI while reducing its untaxed 
E&P, the extraordinary disposition account of the U.S. shareholder 
created from the transfer of that property during the disqualified 
period is reduced by a corresponding amount.

B. Need for the Proposed Regulations

    The existence of two separate sets of rules governing the same 
types of income or transactions suggests that taxpayers would benefit 
from their coordination, and comments have requested this coordination. 
The proposed regulations respond to these comments and help to ensure 
proper functioning of the regulations governing the Act.

C. Economic Analysis of the Proposed Regulations

1. Baseline
    The Treasury Department and the IRS have assessed the benefits and 
costs of the proposed regulations relative to a no-action baseline 
reflecting anticipated Federal income tax-related behavior in the 
absence of these proposed regulations. Under the baseline, Sec. Sec.  
1.245A-5 and 1.951A-2(c)(5) can both apply as a result of the same 
transaction.
2. Economic Effects
i. Summary
    The proposed regulations coordinate the treatment of extraordinary

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disposition accounts and disqualified basis. An example of how they do 
so is presented in part I.C.2.ii of this Special Analyses. Both 
extraordinary disposition accounts and disqualified basis were created 
during the disqualified period, which ended before the issuance of the 
proposed regulations; thus, the proposed regulations will not further 
economic activity. Thus, these provisions will largely not give rise to 
economic effects.
    The Treasury Department and the IRS have, however, identified some 
circumstances under which the proposed regulations may affect business 
activity relative to the no-action baseline. In particular, the 
proposed regulations may affect the extent to which the basis of 
certain assets transferred during the disqualified period can reduce 
potentially taxable income. This means that for affected taxpayers who 
distribute dividends subject to the extraordinary disposition rule and 
thereby correspondingly reduce disqualified basis under the proposed 
regulations, the amount of deduction or loss allowed against 
potentially taxable income is generally higher under the proposed 
regulations than under the no-action baseline. This outcome leads to a 
lower effective tax rate for affected taxpayers on future income under 
the proposed regulations than under the no-action baseline.
    The lower tax rate under the proposed regulations may lead to an 
increase in economic activity for affected taxpayers relative to the 
no-action baseline. This incentive for additional economic activity, 
relative to the no-action baseline, will generally persist for as long 
as the difference in effective tax rates exists (described in part 
I.C.2.ii of this Special Analyses).\2\ The Treasury Department and the 
IRS project that the fact pattern leading to this situation will likely 
be relatively rare, however, because it relies on taxpayers 
distributing income from their extraordinary disposition accounts 
during the useful life of the asset, which is likely to be uncommon 
because of the ordering rule that requires that earnings from 
extraordinary disposition accounts be distributed after all other 
earnings and profits.
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    \2\ The potential discrepancy in effective tax rates can exist 
for a period up to the remaining useful life of a depreciable or 
amortizable asset with (formerly) disqualified basis starting from 
the year that an amount is distributed out of an extraordinary 
disposition account and reduces that disqualified basis.
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    The Treasury Department and the IRS have not undertaken 
quantitative estimates of this economic effect. Data or models are not 
readily available to indicate (i) the amounts of potentially 
disqualified basis (which depends on the volume, value, and basis of 
assets transferred during the disqualified period; see related 
discussion in part I.C.2.iii of this Special Analyses) held by 
taxpayers and the amount of any corresponding extraordinary disposition 
accounts; (ii) differences in effective tax rates for affected 
taxpayers (taxpayers that have disqualified basis and a corresponding 
extraordinary disposition account) between the proposed regulations and 
the no-action baseline; (iii) the amount and period of the depreciation 
deductions related to the potentially disqualified basis to which the 
previous item applies; and (iv) the amount of additional economic 
activity that might be undertaken by these affected taxpayers as a 
result of the difference in effective tax rates. The combined effect of 
these four items gives rise to any potential economic effects of the 
proposed regulations.
    The Treasury Department and the IRS also considered the effect of 
the regulations on compliance costs relative to the no-action baseline. 
The compliance costs arising from the proposed regulations stem only 
from those record-keeping, reporting, and related compliance activities 
that would not have been undertaken in the absence of the proposed 
regulations. However, because the final regulations in Sec. Sec.  
1.245A-5 and 1.951A-2(c)(5) already require collection of most of the 
information and record keeping necessary to implement these 
coordination rules, the Treasury Department and the IRS project that 
any additional costs of the proposed regulations, relative to the no-
action baseline, will be modest. For example, to the extent that a U.S. 
taxpayer distributes a taxable dividend from its extraordinary 
disposition account, that taxpayer will already know the value of that 
dividend as well as the amount of disqualified basis generated in the 
transaction that created the extraordinary disposition account, such 
that any added burden generally lies only in identifying and reducing 
the corresponding disqualified basis by the amount of the dividend, as 
well as reporting such amounts to the extent required by the IRS.
    Although the Treasury Department and the IRS have not undertaken 
quantitative estimates of the proposed regulations, it is projected 
that the proposed regulations could modestly enhance U.S. economic 
performance relative to the no-action baseline. The treatment of 
disqualified basis and the reduction in effective tax rates that it 
engenders for affected taxpayers will enhance economic activity.
    The Treasury Department and the IRS solicit comments on the 
economic effects of the proposed regulations and particularly solicit 
data, models, or other evidence that could enhance the rigor of the 
analysis underlying the final regulations.
ii. Example
    The potential difference in effective tax rates between the 
proposed regulations and the no-action baseline can be illustrated by 
an example.
    Suppose CFC A (a wholly-owned foreign subsidiary of a U.S. parent) 
has $0 E&P and transfers assets worth $100x to CFC B (also a wholly-
owned foreign subsidiary of the same U.S. parent) during the 
disqualified period in a transaction that is an extraordinary 
disposition, and suppose the transferred assets have basis of $0 
immediately before the transfer. CFC A obtains $100x of earnings and 
profits of which, because of the final regulations under section 245A, 
only 50 percent qualifies for the section 245A deduction (if 
distributed to the U.S. parent as a dividend). Also, as a result of the 
sale of the asset during the disqualified period, CFC B obtains $100x 
of basis in the asset which, because of Sec.  1.951A-2(c)(5), cannot be 
used to offset subpart F income, tested income for GILTI purposes, or 
ECTI as it is amortized or depreciated. Additionally, the amortization 
or depreciation deductions on this $100x of disqualified basis reduce 
CFC B's earnings that otherwise may have qualified for the section 245A 
deduction.
    Thus, over the life of the amortization or depreciation of the 
asset with $100x basis, CFC B could, absent the proposed regulations, 
have $100x more tested income (potentially taxed at an effective rate 
of 10.5%, or $10.50x tax) than it would have had if the $100x of 
amortization or depreciation had been allowed to reduce tested income 
(assuming that CFC B has at least $100x of gross tested income in that 
period and neither it nor its U.S parent has any other attributes that 
can reduce GILTI). The amortization or depreciation deductions would 
also reduce CFC B's untaxed earnings and profits by $100x, potentially 
eliminating the ability to distribute $100x tax-free under section 
245A.
    Suppose that, in the same taxable year as the extraordinary 
disposition to CFC B, CFC A makes a dividend distribution to the U.S. 
parent of $100x out of the extraordinary disposition account. The 
section 245A deduction is limited to 50 percent of the earnings 
distributed

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(under Sec.  1.245A-5) and hence the U.S. parent pays $10.50x of tax 
(assuming CFC A's earnings and profits are solely attributable to the 
extraordinary disposition transaction). U.S. parent's extraordinary 
disposition account with respect to CFC A is reduced by $100x and 
subsequent income earned by CFC A can be repatriated tax free.
    Under the proposed regulations, once CFC A makes that distribution 
of $100x out of its extraordinary disposition account subject to a 
$10.50x tax, the $100x of basis that CFC B has in the asset transferred 
during the disqualified period is no longer disqualified basis and can 
give rise to amortization or depreciation deductions that offset CFC 
B's gross tested income, potentially eliminating $10.50x tax on CFC B's 
tested income. This lowers the effective tax rate on CFC B's future 
income and may spur additional economic activity.
iii. Profile of Affected Taxpayers
    The taxpayers potentially affected by the proposed regulations are 
direct or indirect U.S. shareholders of at least two related foreign 
corporations, one that has an extraordinary disposition account and the 
other that has assets with disqualified basis corresponding to the 
extraordinary disposition account. This means that the foreign 
corporation with the extraordinary disposition account has a fiscal 
year and engaged in a disposition of property (i) during the period 
between January 1, 2018, and the end of the transferor foreign 
corporation's last taxable year beginning before January 1, 2018; (ii) 
outside the ordinary course of the foreign corporation's activities; 
and (iii) generally, while the corporation was a CFC.
    The Treasury Department and the IRS have not estimated how many 
taxpayers are likely to be affected by the proposed regulations because 
data on the taxpayers that may have engaged in these particular 
transactions are not readily available. Based on tabulations of the 
2014 Statistics of Income Study file, the Treasury Department and the 
IRS estimate that there are approximately 5,000 domestic corporations 
with at least one fiscal year CFC. However, the number of potentially 
affected taxpayers is likely substantially smaller than the number of 
domestic corporations with at least one fiscal year CFC because a 
domestic corporation will not be affected unless it has a fiscal year 
CFC that engaged in a non-routine sale with a related party during the 
disqualified period that created an extraordinary disposition account 
and disqualified basis under Sec. Sec.  1.245A-5 and 1.951A-2(c)(5), 
and the domestic corporation must then incur the type of cost 
(limitation of the section 245A deduction or allocation of deductions 
or losses to residual CFC gross income and reduction in untaxed 
earnings) that causes the proposed regulations to apply.

II. Paperwork Reduction Act

    The collections of information in the proposed regulations are in 
Sec.  1.6038-2(f)(17) and (18).
    The collection of information in Sec.  1.6038-2(f)(17) is mandatory 
for every U.S. shareholder of a CFC that holds an item of property that 
has disqualified basis within the meaning of Sec.  1.951A-3(h)(2) 
during an annual accounting period and files Form 5471 for that period 
(OMB control number 1545-0123). The collection of information in Sec.  
1.6038-2(f)(17) is satisfied by providing information about the items 
of property with disqualified basis held by the CFC during the CFC's 
accounting period as Form 5471 and its instructions may prescribe. For 
purposes of the Paperwork Reduction Act, the reporting burden 
associated with Sec.  1.6038-2(f)(17) will be reflected in the 
applicable Paperwork Reduction Act submission associated with Form 
5471. As provided below, the estimated number of respondents for the 
reporting burden associated with Sec.  1.6038-2(f)(17) is 7,500-8,500, 
based on estimates provided by the Research, Applied Analytics and 
Statistics Division of the IRS.
    The related new or revised tax form is as follows:

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                                                                Revision of existing      Number of respondents
                                               New                      form                   (estimate)
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Schedule to Form 5471..............  .......................                  [check]               7,500-8,500
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    The collection of information in Sec.  1.6038-2(f)(18) is mandatory 
for every U.S. shareholder of a CFC that applies the rules of proposed 
Sec. Sec.  1.245A-6 through 1.245A-11 during an annual accounting 
period and files Form 5471 for that period (OMB control number 1545-
0123). The collection of information in Sec.  1.6038-2(f)(18) is 
satisfied by providing information about the reduction to an 
extraordinary disposition account made pursuant to proposed Sec.  
1.245A-7(b) or Sec.  1.245A-8(b) and reductions to an item of specified 
property's disqualified basis pursuant to proposed Sec.  1.245A-7(c) or 
Sec.  1.245A-8(c) during the corporation's accounting period as Form 
5471 and its instructions may prescribe. For purposes of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act, the reporting burden associated with Sec.  1.6038-
2(f)(18) will be reflected in the applicable Paperwork Reduction Act 
submission associated with Form 5471. As provided below, the estimated 
number of respondents for the reporting burden associated with Sec.  
1.6038-2(f)(18) is 7,500-8,500, based on estimates provided by the 
Research, Applied Analytics and Statistics Division of the IRS.
    The related new or revised tax form is as follows:

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                                                                Revision of existing      Number of respondents
                                               New                      form                   (estimate)
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Schedule to Form 5471..............  .......................                  [check]               7,500-8,500
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    The current status of the Paperwork Reduction Act submissions 
related to the new revised Form 5471 as a result of the information 
collections in the proposed regulations is provided in the accompanying 
table. The reporting burdens associated with the information 
collections in Sec.  1.6038-2(f)(17) and (18) are included in the 
aggregated burden estimates for OMB control number 1545-0123, which 
represents a total estimated burden time for all forms and schedules 
for corporations of 3.157 billion hours and total estimated monetized 
costs of $58.148 billion

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($2017). The overall burden estimates provided in 1545-0123 are 
aggregate amounts that relate to the entire package of forms associated 
with the OMB control number and will in the future include but not 
isolate the estimated burden of the tax forms that will be revised as a 
result of the information collections in the proposed regulations. 
These numbers are therefore unrelated to the future calculations needed 
to assess the burden imposed by the temporary regulations. The Treasury 
Department and the IRS urge readers to recognize that these numbers are 
duplicates of estimates provided for informational purposes in other 
proposed and final regulatory actions and to guard against over-
counting the burden that international tax provisions imposed before 
the Act.
    No burden estimates specific to the proposed regulations are 
currently available. The Treasury Department and the IRS have not 
identified any burden estimates, including those for new information 
collections, related to the requirements under the proposed 
regulations. The Treasury Department and the IRS request comments on 
all aspects of information collection burdens related to the proposed 
regulations, including estimates for how much time it would take to 
comply with the paperwork burdens described above for each relevant 
form and ways for the IRS to minimize the paperwork burden. Proposed 
revisions to these forms that reflect the information collections 
contained in these proposed regulations will be made available for 
public comment at www.irs.gov/draftforms and will not be finalized 
until after approved by OMB under the PRA.

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Form 5471.............................  Business (new model).....       1545-0123  Published in the Federal
                                                                                    Register on 9/30/19.
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                                                                                    on 11/29/19.
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III. Regulatory Flexibility Act

    It is hereby certified that this rulemaking will not have a 
significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities 
within the meaning of section 601(6) of the Regulatory Flexibility Act 
(5 U.S.C. chapter 6). The small entities that are subject to Sec.  
1.245A-5 are small entities that are U.S. shareholders of certain 
foreign corporations that are otherwise eligible for the section 245A 
deduction on distributions from the foreign corporation. The small 
entities that are subject to Sec.  1.951A-2(c)(5) are U.S. shareholders 
of certain foreign corporations that are subject to tax under section 
951 with respect to subpart F income of those foreign corporations or 
section 951A with respect to tested income of those foreign 
corporations.
    The taxpayers potentially affected by these proposed regulations 
are U.S. shareholders of at least two related foreign corporations, one 
that has an extraordinary disposition account and the other that has 
assets with disqualified basis corresponding to the extraordinary 
disposition account. This means that the foreign corporation with the 
extraordinary disposition account has or had a fiscal year and engaged 
in a disposition of property (i) during the period between January 1, 
2018, and the end of the transferor foreign corporation's last taxable 
year beginning before 2018; (ii) outside the ordinary course of the 
foreign corporation's activities; and (iii) generally, while the 
corporation was a CFC.
    The Treasury Department and the IRS have not estimated how many 
taxpayers are likely to be affected by these regulations because data 
on the taxpayers that may have engaged in these particular transactions 
are not readily available. Based on tabulations of the 2014 Statistics 
of Income Study file the Treasury Department and the IRS estimate that 
there are approximately 5,000 domestic corporations with at least one 
fiscal year CFC. Previous estimates suggest that approximately half of 
domestic corporations with CFCs have less than $25 million in gross 
receipts. However, the number of potentially affected taxpayers is 
smaller than the number of domestic corporations with at least one 
fiscal year CFC because a domestic corporation will not be affected 
unless its fiscal year CFC engages in a non-routine sale with a related 
party that creates an extraordinary disposition account and 
disqualified basis, and the domestic corporation must then incur the 
type of cost (limitation of the section 245A deduction or allocation of 
deductions or losses to residual CFC gross income and reduction in 
untaxed earnings) that causes these proposed regulations to apply. 
There are several industries that may be identified as small even 
through their annual receipts are above $25 million or because they 
have fewer employees than the SBA Size Standard for that industry. The 
Treasury Department and the IRS do not have more precise data 
indicating the number of small entities that will be potentially 
affected by the regulations. The rule may affect a substantial number 
of small entities, but data are not readily available to assess how 
many entities will be affected. Nevertheless, for the reasons described 
below, the Treasury Department and the IRS have determined that the 
regulations will not have a significant economic impact on small 
entities.
    The Treasury Department and the IRS have concluded that there is no 
significant economic impact on such entities as a result of the 
proposed regulations. To make this determination, the Treasury 
Department and the IRS calculated the ratio of estimated global 
intangible lowed-taxed income (``GILTI'') and subpart F income tax 
attributable to these businesses to aggregate total sales data. Bureau 
of Economic Analysis data on the activities of multinational 
enterprises report total sales of all foreign affiliates of U.S. 
parents of $7,183 billion in 2017 (accessed at this web address in 
December, 2018: https://apps.bea.gov/iTable/iTable.cfm?ReqID=2&step=1). 
Projections for GILTI and Subpart F tax revenues average $20 billion 
per year over the ten-year budget window (see Joint Committee on 
Taxation, Estimated Budget Effects of the Conference Agreement for H.R. 
1, The ``Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, JCX-67-17, December 18, 2017), 
resulting in a less than 1 percent share of GILTI and Subpart F tax in 
total sales of U.S.--parented affiliates. Compliance costs for these 
regulations will be a small fraction of the revenue amounts. Thus, any 
tax regulation that affects the proceeds from GILTI and subpart F 
income would have an economic impact of less than 3 to 5

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percent of ``receipts'' (as that term is defined in 13 CFR 121.104, the 
provision for calculating small business receipts, to mean sales and 
any other measure of gross income), an economic impact that the 
Treasury Department and IRS regard as the threshold for significant 
under the Regulatory Flexibility Act. This calculated percentage is 
furthermore an upper bound on the true expected effect of the proposed 
regulations because not all the GILTI and subpart F income estimated to 
be attributable to small entities will be affected by the proposed 
regulations. For example, GILTI and subpart F income that is not 
attributable to a CFC that holds property with disqualified basis (or 
property that would otherwise have disqualified basis in the absence of 
these regulations) is not affected by these proposed regulations. 
Consequently, the Treasury Department and the IRS have determined that 
these proposed regulations will not have a significant economic impact 
on a substantial number of small entities. Pursuant to section 7805(f) 
of the Code, these proposed regulations have been submitted to the 
Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business Administration for 
comment on the impact on small businesses.

Comments and Requests for Public Hearing

    Before these proposed amendments to the regulations are adopted as 
final regulations, consideration will be given to comments that are 
submitted timely to the IRS as prescribed in the preamble under the 
ADDRESSES section. The Treasury Department and the IRS request comments 
on all aspects of the proposed regulations. Any electronic comments 
submitted, and to the extent practicable any paper comments submitted, 
will be made available at www.regulations.gov or upon request.
    A public hearing will be scheduled if requested in writing by any 
person who timely submits electronic or written comments. Requests for 
a public hearing are also encouraged to be made electronically. If a 
public hearing is scheduled, notice of the date and time for the public 
hearing will be published in the Federal Register. Announcement 2020-4, 
2020-17 IRB 1, provides that until further notice, public hearings 
conducted by the IRS will be held telephonically. Any telephonic 
hearing will be made accessible to people with disabilities.

Drafting Information

    The principal authors of the proposed regulations are Logan M. 
Kincheloe and Shane M. McCarrick, Office of Associate Chief Counsel 
(International). However, other personnel from the Treasury Department 
and the IRS participated in their development.

List of Subjects in 26 CFR Part 1

    Income taxes, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.

Proposed Amendments to the Regulations

    Accordingly, 26 CFR part 1 is proposed to be amended as follows:

PART 1--INCOME TAXES

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Paragraph 1. The authority citation for part 1 is amended by adding an 
entry in numerical order for Sec. Sec.  1.245A-6 through 1.245A-11 to 
read in part as follows:

    Authority: 26 U.S.C. 7805 * * *
    Sections 1.245A-6 through 1.245A-11 also issued under 26 U.S.C. 
245A(g), 882(c)(1)(A), 951A, 954(b)(5), 954(c)(6), and 965(o).
* * * * *
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Par. 2. Section 1.245A-5 is amended by:
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1. In the first sentence of paragraph (c)(3)(i)(A), adding immediately 
after the language ``by the prior extraordinary disposition amount'' 
the language ``and as provided in Sec.  1.245A-7 or Sec.  1.245A-8.''
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2. Revising paragraph (j)(8)(ii).
    The revision reads as follows:


Sec.  1.245A-5  Limitation of section 245A deduction and section 
954(c)(6) exception.

* * * * *
    (j) * * *
    (8) * * *
    (ii) Analysis. Because the royalty prepayment was carried out with 
a principal purpose of avoiding the purposes of this section, 
appropriate adjustments are required to be made under the anti-abuse 
rule in paragraph (h) of this section. CFC1 is a CFC that has a 
November 30 taxable year, so under paragraph (c)(3)(iii) of this 
section, CFC1 has a disqualified period beginning on January 1, 2018, 
and ending on November 30, 2018. In addition, even though the 
intangible property licensed by CFC1 to CFC2 is specified property, 
CFC2's prepayment of the royalty would not be treated as a disposition 
of the specified property by CFC1 and, therefore, would not constitute 
an extraordinary disposition (and thus would not give rise to 
extraordinary disposition E&P), absent the application of the anti-
abuse rule of paragraph (h) of this section. Pursuant to paragraph (h) 
of this section, the earnings and profits of CFC1 generated as a result 
of the $100x of prepaid royalty are treated as extraordinary 
disposition E&P for purposes of this section and, therefore, US1 has an 
extraordinary disposition account with respect to CFC1 of $100x. In 
addition, the prepaid royalty gives rise to a disqualified payment (as 
defined in Sec.  1.951A-2(c)(6)(ii)(A)) of $100x. As a result, Sec.  
1.245A-7(b) or Sec.  1.245A-8(b), as applicable, applies to reduce the 
disqualified payment in the same manner as if the disqualified payment 
were disqualified basis, and Sec.  1.245A-7(c) or Sec.  1.245A-8(c), as 
applicable, applies to reduce the extraordinary disposition account in 
the same manner as if the deductions directly or indirectly related to 
the disqualified payment were deductions attributable to disqualified 
basis of an item of specified property that corresponds to the 
extraordinary disposition account.
* * * * *
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Par. 3. Sections 1.245A-6 through 1.245A-11 are added to read as 
follows:
Sec.
* * * * *
1.245A-6 Coordination of extraordinary disposition and disqualified 
basis rules.
1.245A-7 Coordination rules for simple cases.
1.245A-8 Coordination rules for complex cases.
1.245A-9 Other rules and definitions.
1.245A-10 Examples.
1.245A-11 Applicability dates.
* * * * *


Sec.  1.245A-6  Coordination of extraordinary disposition and 
disqualified basis rules.

    (a) Scope. This section and Sec. Sec.  1.245A-7 through 1.245A-11 
coordinate the application of the extraordinary disposition rules of 
Sec.  1.245A-5(c) and (d) and the disqualified basis rule of Sec.  
1.951A-2(c)(5). Section 1.245A-7 provides coordination rules for simple 
cases, and Sec.  1.245A-8 provides coordination rules for complex 
cases. Section 1.245A-9 provides definitions and other rules, including 
rules of general applicability for purposes of this section and 
Sec. Sec.  1.245A-7 through 1.245A-11. Section 1.245A-10 provides 
examples illustrating the application of this section and Sec. Sec.  
1.245A-7 through 1.245A-9. Section 1.245A-11 provides applicability 
dates.
    (b) Conditions to apply coordination rules for simple cases. For a 
taxable year of a section 245A shareholder for which the conditions 
described in paragraphs (b)(1) and (2) of this section are satisfied, 
the section 245A shareholder may apply the coordination rules of Sec.  
1.245A-7 (rules for simple cases) to an extraordinary disposition 
account of the section 245A shareholder with respect to an SFC and 
disqualified basis of an

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item of specified property that corresponds to the extraordinary 
disposition account (as determined pursuant to Sec.  1.245A-9(b)(1)). 
If the conditions are not satisfied, then the coordination rules of 
Sec.  1.245A-8 (rules for complex cases) apply beginning with the first 
day of the first taxable year of the section 245A shareholder for which 
the conditions are not satisfied and all taxable years thereafter. If 
the conditions are satisfied for a taxable year of the section 245A 
shareholder but the section 245A shareholder chooses not to apply the 
coordination rules of Sec.  1.245A-7 for that taxable year, then the 
coordination rules of Sec.  1.245A-8 apply to that taxable year 
(though, for a subsequent taxable year, the section 245A shareholder 
may apply the coordination rules of Sec.  1.245A-7, provided that the 
conditions described in paragraphs (b)(1) and (2) of this section are 
satisfied for such subsequent taxable year and have been satisfied for 
all earlier taxable years). For purposes of applying paragraphs (b)(1) 
and (2) of this section, a reference to a section 245A shareholder, an 
SFC, or a CFC does not include a successor of the section 245A 
shareholder, the SFC, or the CFC, respectively.
    (1) Requirements related to the SFC. The condition of this 
paragraph (b)(1) is satisfied for a taxable year of the section 245A 
shareholder if the following requirements are satisfied:
    (i) On January 1, 2018, the section 245A shareholder owns (within 
the meaning of section 958(a)) all of the stock (by vote and value) of 
the SFC.
    (ii) On each day of the taxable year of the section 245A 
shareholder, the section 245A shareholder owns (within the meaning of 
section 958(a)) all of the stock (by vote and value) of the SFC.
    (iii) On no day during the taxable year of the section 245A 
shareholder was the SFC a distributing or controlled corporation in a 
transaction described in a section 355, or did the SFC acquire the 
assets of a corporation as to which there is an extraordinary 
disposition account pursuant to a transaction described in section 381 
(that is, taking into account the requirements of this paragraph (b)(1) 
and paragraph (b)(2) of this section, the section 245A shareholder's 
extraordinary disposition account with respect to the SFC has not been 
not been adjusted pursuant to the rules of Sec.  1.245A-5(c)(4)).
    (2) Requirements related to an item of specified property that 
corresponds to an extraordinary disposition account and a CFC holding 
the item. The condition of this paragraph (b)(2) is satisfied for a 
taxable year of a section 245A shareholder if the following 
requirements are satisfied:
    (i) For each item of specified property with disqualified basis 
that corresponds to the extraordinary disposition account, the item of 
specified property is held by a CFC immediately after the extraordinary 
disposition of the item of specified property.
    (ii) For each CFC described in paragraph (b)(2)(i) of this 
section--
    (A) All of the stock (by vote and value) of the CFC is owned 
(within the meaning of section 958(a)) by the section 245A shareholder 
and any domestic affiliates of the section 245A shareholder immediately 
after the extraordinary disposition described in paragraph (b)(2)(i) of 
this section;
    (B) For each taxable year of the CFC that ends with or within the 
taxable year of the section 245A shareholder, there is no extraordinary 
disposition account with respect to the CFC, and the sum of the balance 
of the hybrid deduction accounts (as described in Sec.  1.245A(e)-
1(d)(1)) with respect to shares of stock of the CFC is zero (determined 
as of the end of the taxable year of the CFC and taking into account 
any adjustments to the accounts for the taxable year); and
    (C) On each day of each taxable year of the CFC that ends with or 
within the taxable year of the section 245A shareholder, and on each 
day of each taxable year of the CFC that begins with or within the 
taxable year of the section 245A shareholder--
    (1) The CFC holds the item of specified property described in 
paragraph (b)(1)(i) of this section;
    (2) The section 245A shareholder and any domestic affiliates own 
(within the meaning of section 958(a)) all of the stock (by vote and 
value) of the CFC;
    (3) The CFC does not hold any item of specified property with 
disqualified basis other than an item of specified property that 
corresponds to the extraordinary disposition account;
    (4) The CFC does not own an interest in a partnership, trust, or 
estate (directly or indirectly through one or more other partnerships, 
trusts, or estates) that holds an item of specified property with 
disqualified basis; and
    (5) The CFC is not engaged in the conduct of a trade or business in 
the United States and therefore does not have ECTI, and the CFC does 
not have any deficit in earnings and profits subject to Sec.  
1.381(c)(2)-1(a)(5).


Sec.  1.245A-7  Coordination rules for simple cases.

    (a) Scope. This section applies for a taxable year of a section 
245A shareholder for which the conditions of Sec.  1.245A-6(b)(1) and 
(2) are satisfied and for which the section 245A shareholder chooses to 
apply this section (in lieu of Sec.  1.245A-8).
    (b) Reduction of disqualified basis by reason of an extraordinary 
disposition amount or tiered extraordinary disposition amount--(1) In 
general. If, for a taxable year of a section 245A shareholder, an 
extraordinary disposition account of the section 245A shareholder gives 
rise to one or more extraordinary disposition amounts or tiered 
extraordinary disposition amounts, then, with respect to an item of 
specified property that corresponds to the extraordinary disposition 
account, the disqualified basis of the item of specified property is, 
solely for purposes of Sec.  1.951A-2(c)(5), reduced (but not below 
zero) by an amount (determined in the functional currency in which the 
extraordinary disposition account is maintained) equal to the product 
of--
    (i) The sum of the extraordinary disposition amounts and the tiered 
extraordinary disposition amounts; and
    (ii) A fraction, the numerator of which is the disqualified basis 
of the item of specified property, and the denominator of which is the 
sum of the disqualified basis of each item of specified property that 
corresponds to the extraordinary disposition account.
    (2) Timing rules regarding disqualified basis. See Sec.  1.245A-
9(b)(2) for timing rules regarding the determination of, and reduction 
to, disqualified basis of an item of specified property.
    (c) Reduction of extraordinary disposition account by reason of the 
allocation and apportionment of deductions or losses attributable to 
disqualified basis--(1) In general. If, for a taxable year of a CFC, 
the CFC holds one or more items of specified property that correspond 
to an extraordinary disposition account of a section 245A shareholder 
with respect to an SFC, then the extraordinary disposition account is 
reduced (but not below zero) by the lesser of the amounts described in 
paragraphs (c)(1)(i) and (ii) of this section (each determined in the 
functional currency of the CFC).
    (i) The excess (if any) of the adjusted earnings of the CFC for the 
taxable year of the CFC, over the sum of the previously taxed earnings 
and profits accounts with respect to the CFC for purposes of section 
959 (determined as of the end of the taxable year of the CFC and taking 
into account any adjustments to the accounts for the taxable year).
    (ii) The balance of the section 245A shareholder's RGI account with 
respect to the CFC (determined as of the end of the taxable year of the 
CFC, but without

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regard to the application of paragraph (c)(4)(ii) of this section for 
the taxable year).
    (2) Timing of reduction to extraordinary disposition account. See 
Sec.  1.245A-9(b)(3) for timing rules regarding the reduction to an 
extraordinary disposition account.
    (3) Adjusted earnings. The term adjusted earnings means, with 
respect to a CFC and a taxable year of the CFC, the earnings and 
profits of the CFC, determined as of the end of the CFC's taxable year 
(taking into account all distributions during the taxable year), and 
with the adjustments described in paragraphs (c)(3)(i) through (iii) of 
this section.
    (i) The earnings and profits are increased by the amount of any 
deduction or loss that is or was allocated and apportioned to residual 
CFC gross income of the CFC solely by reason of Sec.  1.951A-
2(c)(5)(i).
    (ii) The earnings and profits are decreased by the amount by which 
an RGI account with respect to the CFC has been decreased pursuant to 
paragraph (c)(4)(ii) of this section for a prior taxable year of the 
CFC.
    (iii) The earnings and profits are determined without regard to 
income described in section 245(a)(5)(A) or dividends described in 
section 245(a)(5)(B) (determined without regard to section 245(a)(12)).
    (4) RGI account. For a taxable year of a CFC, the following rules 
apply to determine the balance of a section 245A shareholder's RGI 
account with respect to the CFC:
    (i) The balance of the RGI account is increased by the sum of the 
amounts of deductions and losses of the CFC that, but for Sec.  1.951A-
2(c)(5)(i), would have decreased one or more categories of the CFC's 
positive subpart F income or the CFC's tested income, or increased or 
given rise to a tested loss or one or more qualified deficits of the 
CFC.
    (ii) The balance of the RGI account is decreased to the extent 
that, by reason of the application of paragraph (c)(1) of this section 
with respect to the taxable year of the CFC, there is a reduction to 
the extraordinary disposition account of the section 245A shareholder.


Sec.  1.245A-8  Coordination rules for complex cases.

    (a) Scope. This section applies beginning with the first day of the 
first taxable year of a section 245A shareholder for which Sec.  
1.245A-7 does not apply and for all taxable years thereafter, or for a 
taxable year of a section 245A shareholder for which the section 245A 
shareholder chooses not to apply Sec.  1.245A-7.
    (b) Reduction of disqualified basis by reason of an extraordinary 
disposition amount or tiered extraordinary disposition amount--(1) In 
general. If, for a taxable year of a section 245A shareholder, an 
extraordinary disposition account of the section 245A shareholder gives 
rise to one or more extraordinary disposition amounts or tiered 
extraordinary disposition amounts, then, with respect to an item of 
specified property that corresponds to the extraordinary disposition 
account and for which the ownership requirement of paragraph (b)(3)(i) 
of this section is satisfied for the taxable year of the section 245A 
shareholder, solely for purposes of Sec.  1.951A-2(c)(5), the 
disqualified basis of the item of specified property is reduced (but 
not below zero) by an amount (determined in the functional currency in 
which the extraordinary disposition account is maintained) equal to the 
product of--
    (i) The excess (if any) of--
    (A) The sum of the extraordinary disposition amounts and the tiered 
extraordinary disposition amounts; over
    (B) The basis benefit account with respect to the extraordinary 
disposition account (determined as of the end of the taxable year of 
the section 245A shareholder, and without regard to the application of 
paragraph (b)(4)(i)(B) of this section for the taxable year); and
    (ii) A fraction, the numerator of which is the disqualified basis 
of the item of specified property, and the denominator of which is the 
sum of the disqualified basis of each item of specified property that 
corresponds to the extraordinary disposition account and for which the 
ownership requirement of paragraph (b)(3)(i) of this section is 
satisfied for the taxable year of the section 245A shareholder.
    (2) Timing rules regarding disqualified basis. See Sec.  1.245A-
9(b)(2) for timing rules regarding the determination of, and reduction 
to, disqualified basis of an item of specified property.
    (3) Ownership requirement with respect to an item of specified 
property--(i) In general. For a taxable year of a section 245A 
shareholder, the ownership requirement of this paragraph (b)(3)(i) is 
satisfied with respect to an item of specified property if, on at least 
one day that falls within the taxable year, the item of specified 
property is held by--
    (A) The section 245A shareholder;
    (B) A person (other than the section 245A shareholder) that, on at 
least one day that falls within the section 245A shareholder's taxable 
year, is a related party with respect to the section 245A shareholder 
(such a person, a qualified related party with respect to the section 
245A shareholder for the taxable year of the section 245A shareholder); 
or
    (C) A specified entity at least ten percent of the interests of 
which are, on at least one day that falls within the section 245A 
shareholder's taxable year, owned directly or indirectly through one or 
more other specified entities by the section 245A shareholder or a 
qualified related party.
    (ii) Rules for determining an interest in a specified entity. For 
purposes of paragraph (b)(3)(i)(C) of this section, the phrase ``at 
least 10 percent of the interests'' means--
    (A) If the specified entity is a foreign corporation, at least 10 
percent of the stock (by vote or value) of the foreign corporation;
    (B) If the specified entity is a partnership, at least 10 percent 
of the interests in the capital or profits of the partnership; or
    (C) If the specified entity is not a foreign corporation or a 
partnership, at least 10 percent of the value of the interests in the 
specified entity.
    (4) Basis benefit account--(i) General rules. The term basis 
benefit account means, with respect to an extraordinary disposition 
account of a section 245A shareholder, an account of the section 245A 
shareholder (the initial balance of which is zero), adjusted pursuant 
to the rules of paragraphs (b)(4)(i)(A) and (B) of this section on the 
last day of each taxable year of the section 245A shareholder. The 
basis benefit account must be maintained in the same functional 
currency as the extraordinary disposition account.
    (A) The balance of the basis benefit account is increased to the 
extent that a basis benefit amount with respect to an item of specified 
property that corresponds to the section 245A shareholder's 
extraordinary disposition account is assigned to the taxable year of 
the section 245A shareholder. However, if the extraordinary disposition 
ownership percentage applicable to the section 245A shareholder's 
extraordinary disposition account is less than 100 percent, then, the 
basis benefit account is instead increased by the amount equal to the 
basis benefit amount multiplied by the extraordinary disposition 
ownership percentage.
    (B) The balance of the basis benefit account is decreased to the 
extent that, for a taxable year that includes the date on which the 
section 245A shareholder's taxable year ends, disqualified basis of an 
item of specified property would have been reduced pursuant to 
paragraph (b)(1) of this

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section but for an amount in the basis benefit account.
    (ii) Rules for determining a basis benefit amount--(A) In general. 
The term basis benefit amount means, with respect to an item of 
specified property that has disqualified basis, the portion of 
disqualified basis that, for a taxable year, is directly (or indirectly 
through one or more specified entities that are not corporations) taken 
into account for U.S. tax purposes by a U.S. tax resident, a CFC 
described in Sec.  1.267A-5(a)(17), or a specified foreign person and--
    (1) Reduces the amount of the U.S. tax resident's taxable income, 
one or more categories of the CFC's positive subpart F income, the 
CFC's tested income, or the specified foreign person's ECTI, as 
applicable; or
    (2) Prevents a decrease or offset of the amount of the CFC's tested 
loss or qualified deficits.
    (B) Rules for determining whether disqualified basis of an item of 
specified property is taken into account. For purposes of paragraph 
(b)(4)(ii)(A) of this section, disqualified basis of an item of 
specified property is taken into account for U.S. tax purposes without 
regard to whether the disqualified basis is reduced or eliminated under 
Sec.  1.951A-3(h)(2)(ii)(B)(1).
    (C) Timing rules when disqualified basis gives rise to a deferred 
or disallowed loss. To the extent disqualified basis of an item of 
specified property gives rise to a deduction or loss during a taxable 
year that is deferred, then the determination of whether the item of 
deduction or loss gives rise to a basis benefit amount under paragraph 
(b)(4)(ii)(A) of this section is made when the item of deduction or 
loss is no longer deferred. In addition, to the extent disqualified 
basis of an item of specified property gives rise to a deduction or 
loss during a taxable year that is disallowed under section 267(a)(1), 
then a basis benefit amount is treated as occurring in the taxable year 
when and to the extent that gain is reduced pursuant to section 267(d), 
and provided that the gain is described in paragraph (b)(4)(ii)(A) of 
this section.
    (iii) Rules for assigning a basis benefit amount to a taxable year 
of a section 245A shareholder--(A) In general. For purposes of applying 
paragraph (b)(4)(i)(A) of this section with respect to a section 245A 
shareholder, a basis benefit amount with respect to an item of 
specified property is assigned to a taxable year of the section 245A 
shareholder if--
    (1) With respect to the item of specified property, the ownership 
requirement of paragraph (b)(3)(i) of this section is satisfied for the 
taxable year of the section 245A shareholder; and
    (2) The basis benefit amount occurs during the taxable year of the 
section 245A shareholder, or a taxable year of a U.S. tax resident 
(other than the section 245A shareholder), a CFC described in Sec.  
1.267A-5(a)(17), or a specified foreign person, as applicable, that--
    (i) Ends with or within the taxable year of the section 245A 
shareholder; or
    (ii) Begins with or within the taxable year of the section 245A 
shareholder, but only in a case in which but for this paragraph 
(b)(4)(iii)(A)(2)(ii) the basis benefit amount would not be assigned to 
a taxable year of the section 245A shareholder.
    (B) Anti-duplication rule. For purposes of paragraph (b)(4)(i)(A) 
of this section, to the extent that disqualified basis of an item of 
specified property gives rise to a basis benefit amount that is 
assigned to a taxable year of a section 245A shareholder under 
paragraph (b)(4)(iii)(A) of this section, and thereafter such 
disqualified basis gives rise to an additional basis benefit amount, 
the additional basis benefit amount cannot be assigned to another 
taxable year of any section 245A shareholder. Thus, for example, if the 
entire amount of disqualified basis of an item of specified property 
gives rise to a basis benefit amount for a particular taxable year of a 
CFC and is assigned to a taxable year of a section 245A shareholder 
but, pursuant to Sec.  1.951A-3(h)(2)(ii)(B)(1)(ii), the disqualified 
basis is not reduced or eliminated in such taxable year of the CFC 
(because, for example, the buyer is a CFC that is a related party) and, 
as a result, the disqualified basis thereafter gives rise to an 
additional basis benefit amount, then no portion of the additional 
basis benefit amount is assigned to a taxable year of any section 245A 
shareholder.
    (iv) Successor rules for basis benefit accounts. To the extent that 
an extraordinary disposition account of a section 245A shareholder is 
adjusted pursuant to Sec.  1.245A-5(c)(4), a basis benefit account with 
respect to the extraordinary disposition account is adjusted in a 
similar manner.
    (5) Special rules regarding duplicate DQB of an item of exchanged 
basis property--(i) Adjustments to certain rules in applying paragraph 
(b)(1) of this section. For purposes of paragraph (b)(1) of this 
section for a taxable year of a section 245A shareholder, the following 
rules apply with respect to duplicate DQB of an item of exchanged basis 
property:
    (A) Duplicate DQB of the item of exchanged basis property with 
respect to an item of specified property to which the item of exchanged 
property relates is not taken into account for purposes of paragraph 
(b)(1) of this section if the disqualified basis of the item of 
specified property is taken into account for purposes of paragraph 
(b)(1) of this section. Thus, for example, if for a taxable year of a 
section 245A shareholder the ownership requirement of paragraph (b)(3) 
of this section is satisfied with respect to an item of specified 
property and an item of exchanged basis property that relates to the 
item of specified property, all of the disqualified basis of which is 
duplicate DQB with respect to the item of specified property, then only 
the disqualified basis of the item of specified property is taken into 
account for purposes of, and is subject to reduction under, paragraph 
(b)(1) of this section.
    (B) If, pursuant to paragraph (b)(5)(i)(A) of this section, 
duplicate DQB of an item of exchanged basis property with respect to an 
item of specified property is not taken into account for purposes of 
paragraph (b)(1) of this section, then, solely for purposes of Sec.  
1.951A-2(c)(5), the duplicate DQB of the item of exchanged basis 
property is reduced (in the same manner as it would be if the 
disqualified basis were taken into account for purposes of paragraph 
(b)(1) of this section) by the product of the amounts described in 
paragraphs (b)(5)(i)(B)(1) and (2) of this section.
    (1) The reduction, under paragraph (b)(1) of this section for the 
taxable year of the section 245A shareholder, to the disqualified basis 
of the item of specified property to which the item of exchanged basis 
property relates.
    (2) A fraction, the numerator of which is the duplicate DQB of the 
item of exchanged basis property with respect to the item of specified 
property, and the denominator of which is the sum of the amounts of 
duplicate DQB with respect to the item of specified property of each 
item of exchanged basis property that relates to the item of specified 
property and for which the ownership requirement of paragraph (b)(3)(i) 
of this section is satisfied for the taxable year of the section 245A 
shareholder. For purposes of determining this fraction, duplicate DQB 
of an item of exchanged basis property is determined pursuant to the 
rules of paragraph (b)(2)(i) of this section (by replacing the term 
``paragraph (b)(1)'' in that paragraph with the term ``paragraph 
(b)(5)(i)(B)''). In addition, duplicate DQB of an item of exchanged 
basis property is excluded from the denominator of the fraction to

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the extent the duplicate DQB is attributable to duplicate DQB of 
another item of exchanged basis property that is included in the 
denominator of the fraction.
    (ii) Adjustments to certain rules in applying paragraph (b)(4) of 
this section. For purposes of paragraph (b)(4)(i)(A) of this section, 
to the extent that disqualified basis of an item of specified property 
gives rise to a basis benefit amount that is assigned to a taxable year 
of a section 245A shareholder under paragraph (b)(4)(iii)(A) of this 
section, and thereafter duplicate DQB attributable to such disqualified 
basis of the item of specified property gives rise to an additional 
basis benefit amount, the additional basis benefit amount cannot be 
assigned to another taxable year of any section 245A shareholder. 
Similarly, for purposes of paragraph (b)(4)(i)(A) of this section, to 
the extent that duplicate DQB attributable to disqualified basis of an 
item of specified property gives rise to a basis benefit amount that is 
assigned to a taxable year of a section 245A shareholder under 
paragraph (b)(4)(iii)(A) of this section, and thereafter such 
disqualified basis of the item of specified property (or duplicate DQB 
attributable to such disqualified basis of the item of specified 
property) gives rise to an additional basis benefit amount, the 
additional basis benefit amount cannot be assigned to another taxable 
year of any section 245A shareholder.
    (c) Reduction of extraordinary disposition account by reason of the 
allocation and apportionment of deductions or losses attributable to 
disqualified basis--(1) In general. For a taxable year of a CFC, if 
there is an RGI account with respect to the CFC that relates to an 
extraordinary disposition account of a section 245A shareholder with 
respect to an SFC, and the section 245A shareholder satisfies the 
ownership requirement of paragraph (c)(5) of this section for the 
taxable year of the CFC, then, subject to the limitations in paragraphs 
(c)(6) and (7) of this section, the extraordinary disposition account 
is reduced (but not below zero) by the lesser of the following amounts 
(each determined in the functional currency of the CFC)--
    (i) The excess (if any) of--
    (A) The product of--
    (1) The adjusted earnings of the CFC for the taxable year of the 
CFC; and
    (2) The percentage of stock of the CFC (by value) that, in 
aggregate, is owned directly or indirectly through one or more 
specified entities by the section 245A shareholder and any domestic 
affiliates on the last day of the taxable year of the CFC; over
    (B) The sum of--
    (1) The sum of the balance of the section 245A shareholder's and 
any domestic affiliates' previously taxed earnings and profits accounts 
with respect to the CFC for purposes of section 959 (determined as of 
the end of the taxable year of the CFC and taking into account any 
adjustments to the accounts for the taxable year);
    (2) The sum of the balance of the hybrid deduction accounts (as 
described in Sec.  1.245A(e)-1(d)(1)) with respect to shares of stock 
of the CFC that the section 245A shareholder and any domestic 
affiliates own (within the meaning of section 958(a), and determined by 
treating a domestic partnership as foreign) as of the end of the 
taxable year of the CFC and taking into account any adjustments to the 
accounts for the taxable year; and
    (3) The sum of the balance of the section 245A shareholder's and 
any domestic affiliates' extraordinary disposition accounts with 
respect to the CFC (determined as of the end of the taxable year of the 
CFC and taking into account any adjustments to the accounts for the 
taxable year). However, if the section 245A shareholder or a domestic 
affiliate has an RGI account with respect to the CFC that relates to an 
extraordinary disposition account with respect to the CFC, then only 
the excess, if any, of the balance of the extraordinary disposition 
account over the balance of the RGI account that relates to the 
extraordinary disposition account (determined as of the end of the 
taxable year of the CFC, but without regard to the application of 
paragraph (c)(4)(i)(B) of this section for the taxable year) is taken 
into account for purposes of this paragraph (c)(1)(i)(B)(3). In 
addition, for purposes of this paragraph (c)(1)(i)(B)(3), an 
extraordinary disposition account that but for paragraph (e)(1) of this 
section would be with respect to the CFC for purposes of this section 
is treated as an extraordinary disposition account with respect to the 
CFC and thus is taken into account for purposes of this paragraph 
(c)(1)(i)(B)(3).
    (ii) The balance of the RGI account with respect to the CFC that 
relates to the section 245A shareholder's extraordinary disposition 
account with respect to the SFC (determined as of the end of the 
taxable year of the CFC, but without regard to the application of 
paragraph (c)(4)(i)(B) of this section for the taxable year).
    (2) Timing of reduction to extraordinary disposition account. See 
Sec.  1.245A-9(b)(3) for timing rules regarding the reduction to an 
extraordinary disposition account.
    (3) Adjusted earnings. The term adjusted earnings means, with 
respect to a CFC and a taxable year of the CFC, the earnings and 
profits of the CFC, determined as of the end of the CFC's taxable year 
(taking into account all distributions during the taxable year, and not 
taking into account any deficit in earnings and profits subject to 
Sec.  1.381(c)(2)-1(a)(5)) and with the adjustments described in 
paragraphs (c)(3)(i) through (iv) of this section.
    (i) The earnings and profits are increased by the amount of any 
deduction or loss that--
    (A) Is or was attributable to disqualified basis of an item of 
specified property, but only to the extent that gain recognized on the 
extraordinary disposition of the item of specified property was 
included in the initial balance of an extraordinary disposition 
account;
    (B) Is or was allocated and apportioned to residual CFC gross 
income of the CFC (or a predecessor) solely by reason of Sec.  1.951A-
2(c)(5)(i); and
    (C) Does not or has not given rise to or increased a deficit in 
earnings and profits subject to Sec.  1.381(c)(2)-1(a)(5), determined 
as of the end of the taxable year of the CFC.
    (ii) The earnings and profits are decreased by the amount by which 
any RGI account with respect to the CFC has been decreased pursuant to 
paragraph (c)(4)(i)(B) of this section for a prior taxable year of the 
CFC.
    (iii) The earnings and profits are determined without regard to 
earnings attributable to income described in section 245(a)(5)(A) or 
dividends described in section 245(a)(5)(B) (determined without regard 
to section 245(a)(12)).
    (iv) The earnings and profits are decreased by the amount of any 
deduction or loss that, but for paragraph (c)(3)(i)(C) of this section, 
would be described in paragraph (c)(3)(i) of this section.
    (4) RGI account--(i) In general. For a taxable year of a CFC, the 
following rules apply to determine the balance of a section 245A 
shareholder's RGI account that is with respect to the CFC and that 
relates to an extraordinary disposition account of the section 245A 
shareholder with respect to an SFC:
    (A) The balance of the RGI account is increased by the product of 
the amounts described in paragraphs (c)(4)(i)(A)(1) and (2) of this 
section for a taxable year of the CFC.
    (1) The sum of the amounts of deductions and losses of the CFC 
that--

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    (i) Are attributable to disqualified basis of one or more items of 
specified property that correspond to the extraordinary disposition 
account; and
    (ii) But for Sec.  1.951A-2(c)(5)(i), would have decreased one or 
more categories of the CFC's positive subpart F income, the CFC's 
tested income, or the CFC's ECTI, or increased or given rise to a 
tested loss or one or more qualified deficits of the CFC.
    (2) The lesser of--
    (i) A fraction (expressed as a percentage), the numerator of which 
is the sum of the portions of the CFC's subpart F income and tested 
income or tested loss (expressed as a positive number) taken into 
account under sections 951(a)(1)(A) and 951A(a) (as determined under 
the rules of Sec. Sec.  1.951-1(b) and (e) and 1.951A-1(d)) by the 
section 245A shareholder and any domestic affiliates of the section 
245A shareholder and the section 245A shareholder's and any domestic 
affiliates' pro rata shares of the CFC's qualified deficits (expressed 
as a positive number), and the denominator of which is the sum of the 
CFC's subpart F income, tested income or tested loss (expressed as a 
positive number), and qualified deficits (expressed as a positive 
number), but for purposes of this paragraph (c)(4)(i)(A)(2)(i) treating 
ECTI (expressed as a positive number) as if it were subpart F income; 
and
    (ii) The extraordinary disposition ownership percentage applicable 
as to the section 245A shareholder's extraordinary disposition account.
    (B) The balance of the RGI account is decreased to the extent that, 
by reason of the application of paragraph (c)(1) of this section with 
respect to the taxable year of the CFC, there is a reduction to the 
extraordinary disposition account of the section 245A shareholder.
    (ii) Successor rules for RGI accounts. To the extent that an 
extraordinary disposition account of a section 245A shareholder is 
adjusted pursuant to Sec.  1.245A-5(c)(4), an RGI account of a CFC with 
respect to the extraordinary disposition account is adjusted in a 
similar manner.
    (5) Ownership requirement with respect to a CFC. For a taxable year 
of a CFC, a section 245A shareholder satisfies the ownership 
requirement of this paragraph (c)(5) if, on the last day of the CFC's 
taxable year, the section 245A shareholder or a domestic affiliate is a 
United States shareholder with respect to the CFC.
    (6) Allocation of reductions among multiple extraordinary 
disposition accounts. This paragraph (c)(6) applies if, by reason of 
the application of paragraph (c)(1) of this section with respect to a 
taxable year of a CFC (and but for the application of this paragraph 
(c)(6) and paragraph (c)(7) of this section), the sum of the reductions 
under paragraph (c)(1) of this section to two or more extraordinary 
disposition accounts of a section 245A shareholder or a domestic 
affiliate of the section 245A shareholder would exceed the amount 
described in paragraph (c)(1)(i)(A) of this section (the amount of such 
excess, the excess amount). When this paragraph (c)(6) applies, the 
reduction to each extraordinary disposition account described in the 
previous sentence is equal to the reduction that would occur but for 
this paragraph (c)(6) and paragraph (c)(7) of this section, less the 
product of the excess amount and a fraction, the numerator of which is 
the balance of the extraordinary disposition account, and the 
denominator of which is the sum of the balances of all of the 
extraordinary dispositions accounts described in the previous sentence. 
For purposes of determining this fraction, the balance of an 
extraordinary disposition account is determined as of the end of the 
taxable year of the section 245A shareholder or the domestic affiliate, 
as applicable, that includes the date on which the CFC's taxable year 
ends (and after the determination of any extraordinary disposition 
amounts or tiered extraordinary disposition amounts for the taxable 
year of the section 245A shareholder or the domestic affiliate, as 
applicable, and adjustments to the extraordinary disposition account 
for prior extraordinary disposition amounts).
    (7) Extraordinary disposition account not reduced below balance of 
basis benefit account. An extraordinary disposition account of a 
section 245A shareholder cannot be reduced pursuant to paragraph (c)(1) 
of this section below the balance of the basis benefit account with 
respect to the extraordinary disposition account (determined when a 
reduction to the extraordinary disposition account would occur under 
paragraph (c)(1) of this section).
    (d) Special rules for determining when specified property 
corresponds to an extraordinary disposition account--(1) Substituted 
property--(i) Treatment as specified property that corresponds to an 
extraordinary disposition account. For purposes of this section, an 
item of substituted property is treated as an item of specified 
property that corresponds to an extraordinary disposition account to 
which the related item of specified property (that is, the item of 
specified property to which the item of substituted property relates, 
as described in paragraph (d)(1)(ii) of this section) corresponds. In 
addition, in a case in which an item of substituted property relates to 
an item of specified property that corresponds to a particular 
extraordinary disposition account and an item of specified property 
that corresponds to another extraordinary disposition account (such 
that, pursuant to this paragraph (d)(1)(i), the item of substituted 
property is treated as corresponding to multiple extraordinary 
disposition accounts), only the disqualified basis of the item of 
substituted property attributable to the first item of specified 
property is taken into account for purposes of applying this section as 
to the first extraordinary disposition account, and, similarly, only 
the disqualified basis of the item of substituted property attributable 
to the second item of specified property is taken into account for 
purposes of applying this section as to the second extraordinary 
disposition account.
    (ii) Definition of substituted property. The term substituted 
property means an item of property the disqualified basis of which is, 
pursuant to Sec.  1.951A-3(h)(2)(ii)(B)(2)(i) or (iii), increased by 
reason of a reduction under Sec.  1.951A-3(h)(2)(ii)(B)(1) in 
disqualified basis of an item of specified property. An item of 
substituted property relates to an item of specified property if the 
disqualified basis of the item of substituted property was increased by 
reason of a reduction in disqualified basis of the item of specified 
property.
    (2) Exchanged basis property--(i) Treatment as specified property 
that corresponds to an extraordinary disposition account for certain 
purposes. For purposes of this section, an item of exchanged basis 
property is treated as an item of specified property that corresponds 
to an extraordinary disposition account to which the related item of 
specified property (that is, the item of specified property to which 
the item of exchanged basis property relates) corresponds.
    (ii) Definition of exchanged basis property. The term exchanged 
basis property means an item of property the disqualified basis of 
which, pursuant to Sec.  1.951A-3(h)(2)(ii)(B)(2)(ii), includes 
disqualified basis of an item of specified property. An item of 
exchanged basis property relates to an item of specified property if 
the disqualified basis of the item of exchanged basis property includes 
disqualified basis of the item of specified property.
    (iii) Definition of duplicate DQB--(A) In general. The term 
duplicate DQB means, with respect to an item of exchanged basis 
property and the item of specified property to which the exchanged 
basis property relates, the

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disqualified basis of the item of exchanged basis property that 
includes or is attributable to disqualified basis of the item of 
specified property.
    (B) Certain nonrecognition transfers involving stock or a 
partnership interest. To the extent that an item of exchanged basis 
property that is stock or an interest in a partnership (lower-tier 
item) includes disqualified basis of an item of specified property to 
which the lower-tier item relates (contributed item), and another item 
of exchanged basis property that is stock or a partnership interest 
(upper-tier item) includes disqualified basis of the lower-tier item 
that is attributable to disqualified basis of the contributed item, the 
disqualified basis of the upper-tier item is attributable to 
disqualified basis of the contributed item and the upper-tier item is 
an item of exchanged basis property that relates to the contributed 
item. The principles of the preceding sentence apply each time 
disqualified basis of an item of exchanged basis property that is stock 
or an interest in a partnership is included in disqualified basis of 
another item of exchanged basis property that is stock or an interest 
in a partnership.
    (C) Multiple nonrecognition transfers of an item of specified 
property. To the extent that multiple items of exchanged basis property 
that are stock or interests in a partnership include disqualified basis 
of the same item of specified property (contributed item) to which the 
items of exchanged basis property relate, and the issuer of one of the 
items of exchanged basis property (upper-tier successor item) receives 
the other item of exchanged basis property (lower-tier successor item) 
in exchange for the contributed property, the disqualified basis of the 
upper-tier successor item is attributable to disqualified basis of the 
lower-tier successor item and the upper-tier successor item is an item 
of exchanged basis property that relates to the lower-tier successor 
item. The principles of the preceding sentence apply each time 
disqualified basis of an item of specified property to which an item of 
exchanged basis property that is stock or an interest in partnership 
relates is included in disqualified basis of another item of exchanged 
basis property that is stock or an interest in a partnership.
    (e) Special rules when extraordinary disposition accounts are 
adjusted pursuant to Sec.  1.245A-5(c)(4)--(1) Extraordinary 
disposition account with respect to multiple SFCs. This paragraph 
(e)(1) applies if, pursuant to Sec.  1.245A-5(c)(4)(ii) or (iii) (the 
transaction or transactions by reason of which Sec.  1.245A-5(c)(4)(ii) 
or (iii) applies, the adjustment transaction), an extraordinary 
disposition account of a section 245A shareholder with respect to an 
SFC (such extraordinary disposition account, the transferor ED account; 
and such SFC, the transferor SFC) gives rise to an increase in the 
balance of an extraordinary disposition account with respect to another 
SFC (such extraordinary disposition account, the transferee ED account; 
such SFC, the transferee SFC; and such increase, the adjustment 
amount). When this paragraph (e)(1) applies, the following rules apply 
for purposes of this section:
    (i) A ratable portion of the transferee ED account is treated as 
retaining its status as an extraordinary disposition account with 
respect to the transferor SFC and is not treated as an extraordinary 
disposition account with respect to the transferee SFC (the transferee 
ED account to such extent, the deemed transferor ED account), based on 
the adjustment amount relative to the balance of the transferee ED 
account (without regard to this paragraph (e)(1)) immediately after the 
adjustment transaction. Thus, for example, whether or not the 
transferor SFC is in existence immediately after the transaction, the 
items of specified property that correspond to the deemed transferor ED 
account are the same as the items of specified property that correspond 
to the transferor ED account. As an additional example, whether or not 
the transferor SFC is in existence immediately after the transaction 
the extraordinary disposition ownership percentage with respect to the 
deemed transferor ED account is the same as the extraordinary 
disposition ownership percentage with respect to the transferor ED 
account (except to the extent the extraordinary disposition ownership 
percentage is adjusted pursuant to the rules of paragraph (e)(2) of 
this section).
    (ii) In the case of an amount (such as an extraordinary disposition 
amount or tiered extraordinary disposition amount) determined by 
reference to the transferee ED account (without regard to this 
paragraph (e)(1)), the portion of the amount that is considered 
attributable to the deemed transferor ED account (and not the 
transferee ED account) is equal to the product of such amount and a 
fraction, the numerator of which is the balance of the deemed 
transferor ED account, and the denominator of which is the balance of 
the transferee ED account (determined without regard to this paragraph 
(e)(1)). Thus, for example, if after an adjustment transaction the 
transferee ED account (without regard to this paragraph (e)(1)) gives 
rise to an extraordinary disposition amount, and if the fraction 
(expressed as a percentage) is 40, then, for purposes of this section, 
40 percent of the extraordinary disposition amount is treated as 
attributable to the deemed transferor ED account and the remaining 60 
percent of the extraordinary disposition amount is attributable to the 
transferee ED account, and the balance of each of the deemed transferor 
ED account and the transferee ED account is correspondingly reduced.
    (2) Extraordinary disposition accounts with respect to a single 
SFC. If an extraordinary disposition account of a section 245A 
shareholder with respect to an SFC is reduced by reason of Sec.  
1.245A-5(c)(4), then, except as provided in paragraph (e)(1) of this 
section, for purposes of this section, the extraordinary disposition 
ownership percentage as to the extraordinary disposition account (as 
well as the extraordinary disposition ownership percentage as to any 
extraordinary disposition account with respect to the SFC that is 
increased by reason of the reduction) is adjusted in a similar manner.


Sec.  1.245A-9  Other rules and definitions.

    (a) In general. This section provides rules of general 
applicability for purposes of Sec. Sec.  1.245A-6 through 1.245A-10, a 
transition rule to revoke an election to eliminate disqualified basis, 
and definitions.
    (b) Rules of general applicability--(1) Correspondence. An item of 
specified property corresponds to a section 245A shareholder's 
extraordinary disposition account if gain was recognized on the 
extraordinary disposition of the item and the gain was taken into 
account in determining the initial balance of the account. See Sec.  
1.245A-8(d) for additional rules regarding when an item of property is 
treated as corresponding to an extraordinary disposition account in 
certain complex cases.
    (2) Timing rules related to disqualified basis for purposes of 
applying Sec. Sec.  1.245A-7(b) and 1.245A-8(b)--(i) Determination of 
disqualified basis. For purposes of determining the fraction described 
in Sec.  1.245A-7(b)(1)(ii) or Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(1)(ii) when applying 
Sec.  1.245A-7(b)(1) or Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(1)(ii), respectively, for a 
taxable year of a section 245A shareholder, disqualified basis of an 
item of specified property is determined as of the beginning of the 
taxable year of the CFC that holds the item of specified property (in a 
case in which Sec.  1.245A-7(b) applies) or the specified property 
owner (in a case in which Sec.  1.245A-8(b) applies), in either case, 
that includes the date on which the section 245A shareholder's taxable 
year ends (and without regard to any reductions to the disqualified 
basis of

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the item of specified property pursuant to Sec.  1.245A-7(b)(1) or 
Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(1) for such taxable year of the CFC or the specified 
property owner, as applicable). However, if disqualified basis of the 
item of specified property arose as a result of an extraordinary 
disposition that occurred after the beginning of the taxable year of 
the CFC or the specified property owner described in the preceding 
sentence, then the disqualified basis of the item of specified property 
is determined as of the date on which the extraordinary disposition 
occurred (and without regard to any reductions to the disqualified 
basis of the item of specified property pursuant to paragraph (b)(1) of 
this section for such taxable year of the CFC or the specified property 
owner).
    (ii) Reduction to disqualified basis of an item of specified 
property. The reduction to disqualified basis of an item of specified 
property pursuant to Sec.  1.245A-7(b)(1) or Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(1) 
occurs on the date described in paragraph (b)(2)(i) of this section.
    (iii) Definition of specified property owner. For purposes of 
applying Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(1) and paragraphs (b)(2)(i) and (ii) of this 
section for a taxable year of a section 245A shareholder, the term 
specified property owner means, with respect to an item of specified 
property, the person that, on at least one day of the taxable year of 
the person that includes the date on which the section 245A 
shareholder's taxable year ends, held the item of specified property. 
However, if, but for this sentence, there would be more than one 
specified property owner with respect to the item of specified 
property, then the specified property owner is the person that held the 
item of specified property on the earliest date that falls within the 
section 245A shareholder's taxable year.
    (3) Timing rules for reducing an extraordinary disposition account 
under Sec. Sec.  1.245A-7(c) and 1.245A-8(c). For purposes of Sec.  
1.245A-7(c)(1) or Sec.  1.245A-8(c)(1), as applicable, with respect to 
a taxable year of a CFC, the reduction to an extraordinary disposition 
account pursuant to Sec.  1.245A-7(c)(1) or Sec.  1.245A-8(c)(1) occurs 
as of the end of the taxable year of the section 245A shareholder that 
includes the date on which the CFC's taxable year ends (and after the 
determination of any extraordinary disposition amounts or tiered 
extraordinary amounts, adjustments to the extraordinary disposition 
account for prior extraordinary disposition amounts, and the 
application of Sec.  1.245A-7(b) or Sec.  1.245A-8(b), as applicable, 
each for the taxable year of the section 245A shareholder).
    (4) Currency translation. For purposes of applying Sec. Sec.  
1.245A-7(b) and 1.245A-8(b), the disqualified basis of (and, if 
applicable, a basis benefit amount with respect to) an item of 
specified property that corresponds to an extraordinary disposition 
account are translated (if necessary) into the functional currency in 
which the extraordinary disposition account is maintained, using the 
spot rate on the date the extraordinary disposition occurred. A 
reduction in disqualified basis of an item of specified property 
determined under Sec.  1.245A-7(b)(1) or Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(1) is 
translated (if necessary) into the functional currency in which the 
disqualified basis of the item of specified property is maintained, and 
a reduction in an extraordinary disposition account determined under 
Sec.  1.245A-7(c) or Sec.  1.245A-8(c) section is translated (if 
necessary) into the functional currency in which the extraordinary 
disposition account is maintained, in each case using the spot rate 
described in the preceding sentence.
    (5) Anti-avoidance rule. Appropriate adjustments are made pursuant 
to this paragraph (b)(5), including adjustments that would disregard a 
transaction or arrangement in whole or in part, to any amounts 
determined under (or subject to application of) this section if a 
transaction or arrangement is engaged in with a principal purpose of 
avoiding the purposes of Sec. Sec.  1.245A-6 through 1.245A-10.
    (c) Transition rule to revoke election to eliminate disqualified 
basis--(1) In general. This paragraph (c)(1) applies to an election 
that is filed, pursuant to Sec.  1.951A-3(h)(2)(ii)(B)(3), to eliminate 
the disqualified basis of an item of specified property. An election to 
which this paragraph (c)(1) applies may be revoked if, on or before 
[date 90 days after a Treasury decision adopting these rules as final 
regulations is published in the Federal Register]--
    (i) All controlling domestic shareholders (as defined in Sec.  
1.964-1(c)(5)) of the CFC (or, in the case of an election made by a 
partnership, the partnership) each attach a revocation statement (in 
the manner described in paragraph (c)(2) of this section) to an amended 
return, for the taxable year to which the election applies, that 
revokes the election (or, in the case of a partnership subject to 
subchapter C of chapter 63 of the Internal Revenue Code, requests 
administrative adjustment under section 6227); and
    (ii) The controlling domestic shareholders (or the partnership) 
each file an amended tax return, for any other taxable years reflecting 
the election to eliminate the disqualified basis, that reflects the 
election having been revoked (or, in the case of a partnership subject 
to subchapter C of chapter 63, requests administrative adjustment under 
section 6227).
    (2) Revocation statement. Except as otherwise provided in 
publications, forms, instructions, or other guidance, a revocation 
statement attached by a person to an amended tax return must include 
the person's name, taxpayer identification number, and a statement that 
the revocation statement is filed pursuant to paragraph (c)(1) of this 
section to revoke an election pursuant to Sec.  1.951A-
3(h)(2)(ii)(B)(3). In addition, the revocation statement must be filed 
in the manner prescribed in publications, forms, instructions, or other 
guidance.
    (d) Definitions. In addition to the definitions in Sec.  1.245A-5, 
the following definitions apply for purposes of Sec. Sec.  1.245A-6 
through 1.245A-11.
    (1) The term adjusted earnings has the meaning provided in Sec.  
1.245A-7(c)(3) or Sec.  1.245A-8(c)(3), as applicable.
    (2) The term basis benefit account has the meaning provided in 
Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(4)(i).
    (3) The term basis benefit amount has the meaning provided in Sec.  
1.245A-8(b)(4)(ii).
    (4) The term disqualified basis has the meaning provided in Sec.  
1.951A-3(h)(2)(ii).
    (5) The term domestic affiliate means, with respect to a section 
245A shareholder, a domestic corporation that is a related party with 
respect to the section 245A shareholder. See also Sec.  1.245A-5(i)(19) 
(defining related party).
    (6) The term duplicate DQB has the meaning provided in Sec.  
1.245A-8(d)(2)(iii).
    (7) The term ECTI means, with respect to a taxable year of a 
specified foreign person, the taxable income (or loss) of the specified 
foreign person determined by taking into account only items of income 
and gain that are, or are treated as, effectively connected with the 
conduct of a trade or business in the United States (as described in 
Sec.  1.882-4(a)(1)) and are not exempt from U.S. tax pursuant to a 
treaty obligation of the United States, and items of deduction and loss 
that are allocated and apportioned to such items of income and gain.
    (8) The term exchanged basis property has the meaning provided in 
Sec.  1.245A-8(d)(2)(ii).
    (9) The term qualified deficit has the meaning provided in section 
952(c)(1)(B)(ii).

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    (10) The term qualified related party has the meaning provided in 
Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(3)(ii).
    (11) The term RGI account means, with respect to a CFC and an 
extraordinary disposition account of a section 245A shareholder with 
respect to an SFC, an account of the section 245A shareholder with 
respect to an SFC (the initial balance of which is zero), adjusted at 
the end of each taxable year of the CFC pursuant to the rules of Sec.  
1.245A-7(c)(4) or Sec.  1.245A-8(c)(4), as applicable. The RGI account 
must be maintained in the functional currency of the CFC.
    (12) The term specified foreign person means a nonresident alien 
individual (as defined in section 7701(b) and the regulations under 
section 7701(b)) or a foreign corporation (including a CFC) that 
conducts, or is treated as conducting, a trade or business in the 
United States (as described in Sec.  1.882-4(a)(1)).
    (13) The term specified property owner has the meaning provided in 
Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(2)(iii).
    (14) The term subpart F income has the meaning provided in section 
952(a).
    (15) The term substituted property has the meaning provided in 
Sec.  1.245A-8(d)(1)(ii).
    (16) The term tested income has the meaning provided in section 
951A(c)(2)(A).
    (17) The term tested loss has the meaning provided in section 
951A(c)(2)(B).


Sec.  1.245A-10  Examples.

    (a) Scope. This section provides examples illustrating the 
application of Sec. Sec.  1.245A-6 through 1.245A-9.
    (b) Presumed facts. For purposes of the examples in the section, 
except as otherwise stated, the following facts are presumed:
    (1) US1 and US2 are both domestic corporations that have calendar 
taxable years.
    (2) CFC1, CFC2, CFC3, and CFC4 are all SFCs and CFCs that have 
taxable years ending November 30.
    (3) Each entity uses the U.S. dollar as its functional currency.
    (4) There are no items of deduction or loss attributable to an item 
of specified property.
    (5) Absent the application of Sec.  1.245A-5, any dividends 
received by US1 from CFC1 would meet the requirements to qualify for 
the section 245A deduction.
    (6) All dispositions of items of specified property by an SFC 
during a disqualified period of the SFC to a related party give rise to 
an extraordinary disposition.
    (7) None of the CFCs have a deficit subject to Sec.  1.381(c)(2)-
1(a)(5), and none of the CFCs are engaged in the conduct of a trade or 
business in the United States (and therefore none of the CFCs have 
ECTI).
    (8) There is no previously taxed earnings and profits account with 
respect to any CFC for purposes of section 959. In addition, each 
hybrid deduction account with respect to a share of stock of a CFC has 
a zero balance at all times. Further, there is no extraordinary 
disposition account with respect to any CFC.
    (9) Under Sec.  1.245A-11(b), taxpayers choose to apply Sec. Sec.  
1.245A-6 through 1.245A-11 to the relevant taxable years.

    (c) Examples--(1) Example 1. Reduction of disqualified basis 
under rule for simple cases by reason of dividend paid out of 
extraordinary disposition account--(i) Facts. US1 owns 100% of the 
single class of stock of CFC1 and CFC2. On November 30, 2018, in a 
transaction that is an extraordinary disposition, CFC1 sells two 
items of specified property, Item 1 and Item 2, to CFC2 in exchange 
for $150x of cash (the ``Disqualified Transfer''). Item 1 is sold 
for $90x and Item 2 is sold for $60x. Item 1 and Item 2 each has a 
basis of $0 in the hands of CFC1 immediately before the Disqualified 
Transfer, and therefore CFC1 recognizes $150x of gain as a result of 
the Disqualified Transfer ($150x-$0). After the Disqualified 
Transfer, CFC2's only assets are Item 1 and Item 2. On November 30, 
2018, and thus during US1's taxable year ending December 31, 2018, 
CFC1 distributes $150x of cash to US1, and all of the distribution 
is characterized as a dividend under section 301(c)(1) and treated 
as a distribution out of earnings and profits described in section 
959(c)(3). For CFC1's taxable year ending on November 30, 2018, CFC1 
has $160x of earnings and profits described in section 959(c)(3), 
without regard to any distributions during the taxable year. CFC2 
continues to hold Item 1 and Item 2. Lastly, because the conditions 
of Sec.  1.245A-6(b)(1) and (2) are satisfied for US1's 2018 taxable 
year, US1 chooses to apply Sec.  1.245A-7 (rules for simple cases) 
in lieu of Sec.  1.245A-8 (rules for complex cases) for that taxable 
year.
    (ii) Analysis--(A) Application of Sec. Sec.  1.245A-5 and 
1.951A-2 as a result of the Disqualified Transfer. As a result of 
the Disqualified Transfer, under Sec.  1.951A-2(c)(5), Item 1 has 
disqualified basis of $90x, and Item 2 has disqualified basis of 
$60x. In addition, as a result of the Disqualified Transfer, under 
Sec.  1.245A-5(c)(3)(i)(A), US1 has an extraordinary disposition 
account with respect to CFC1 with an initial balance of $150x. Under 
Sec.  1.245A-5(c)(2)(i), $10x of the dividend is considered paid out 
of non-extraordinary disposition E&P of CFC1 with respect to US1, 
and $140x of the dividend is considered paid out of US1's 
extraordinary disposition account with respect to CFC1 to the extent 
of the balance of the extraordinary disposition account ($150x). 
Thus, the dividend of $150x is an extraordinary disposition amount, 
within the meaning of Sec.  1.245A-5(c)(1), to the extent of $140x. 
As a result, the balance of the extraordinary disposition account is 
reduced to $10x ($150x-$140x).
    (B) Correspondence requirement. Under Sec.  1.245A-9(b)(1), each 
of Item 1 and Item 2 corresponds to US1's extraordinary disposition 
account with respect to CFC1, because as a result of the 
Disqualified Transfer CFC1 recognized gain with respect to Item 1 
and Item 2, and the gain was taken into account in determining the 
initial balance of US1's extraordinary disposition account with 
respect to CFC1.
    (C) Reduction of disqualified basis of Item 1. Because Item 1 
corresponds to US1's extraordinary disposition account, the 
disqualified basis of Item 1 is reduced pursuant to Sec.  1.245A-
7(b)(1) by reason of US1's $140x extraordinary disposition amount 
for US1's 2018 taxable year. Paragraphs (c)(2)(ii)(C)(1) through (3) 
of this section describe the determinations pursuant to Sec.  
1.245A-7(b)(1).
    (1) To determine the reduction to the disqualified basis of Item 
1, the disqualified basis of Item 1, as well as the disqualified 
basis of Item 2, must be determined as of the date described in 
Sec.  1.245A-9(b)(2)(i) (and before the application of Sec.  1.245A-
7(b)(1)). See Sec.  1.245A-7(b)(1)(ii). For each of Item 1 and Item 
2, that date is December 1, 2018. December 1, 2018, is the first day 
of the taxable year of CFC2 (the CFC that holds Item 1 and Item 2) 
beginning on December 1, 2018, which is the taxable year of CFC2 
that includes December 31, 2018, the date on which US1's 2018 
taxable year ends. See Sec.  1.245A-9(b)(2)(i).
    (2) Pursuant to Sec.  1.245A-7(b)(1), the disqualified basis of 
Item 1 is reduced by $84x, computed as the product of--
    (i) $140x, the extraordinary disposition amount; and
    (ii) A fraction, the numerator of which is $90x (the 
disqualified basis of Item 1 on December 1, 2018, and before the 
application of Sec.  1.245A-7(b)(1)), and the denominator of which 
is $150x (the disqualified basis of Item 1, $90x, plus the 
disqualified basis of Item 2, $60x, in each case determined on 
December 1, 2018, and before the application of Sec.  1.245A-
7(b)(1)). See Sec.  1.245A-7(b)(1).
    (3) The $84x reduction to the disqualified basis of Item 1 
occurs on December 1, 2018, the date on which the disqualified basis 
of Item 1 is determined for purposes of determining the reduction 
pursuant to Sec.  1.245A-7(b)(1). See Sec.  1.245A-9(b)(2)(ii).
    (D) Reduction of disqualified basis of Item 2. For reasons 
similar to those described in paragraph (c)(2)(ii)(C) of this 
section, on December 1, 2018, the disqualified basis of Item 2 is 
reduced by $56x, the amount equal to the product of $140x, the 
extraordinary disposition amount, and a fraction, the numerator of 
which is $60x (the disqualified basis of Item 2 on December 1, 2018, 
and before the application of Sec.  1.245A-7(b)(1)), and the 
denominator of which is $150x (the disqualified basis of Item 1, 
$90x, plus the disqualified basis of Item 2, $60x, in each case 
determined on December 1, 2018, and before the application of Sec.  
1.245A-7(b)(1)).
    (2) Example 2. Basis benefit amount and impact on reduction to 
disqualified basis

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under rule for complex cases--(i) Facts. The facts are the same as 
in paragraph (c)(1)(i) of this section (Example 1) (and the results 
are the same as in paragraph (c)(1)(ii)(A) of this section), except 
that, on December 1, 2018, CFC2 sells Item 1 for $90x of cash to an 
individual that is not a related party with respect to US1 or CFC2 
(such transaction, the ``Sale,'' and such individual, ``Individual 
A''). At the time of the Sale, CFC2's basis in Item 1 is $90x (all 
of which is disqualified basis, as described in Sec.  1.951A-
3(h)(2)(ii)(A)). CFC2 takes into the account the disqualified basis 
of Item 1 for purposes of determining the amount of gain recognized 
on the Sale, which is $0 ($90x-$90x); but for the disqualified 
basis, CFC2 would have had $90x of gain that would have been taken 
into account in computing its tested income. As a result of the 
Sale, the condition of Sec.  1.245A-6(b)(2) is not satisfied, 
because on at least one day of CFC2's taxable year beginning on 
December 1, 2018 (which begins within US1's 2018 taxable year) CFC2 
does not hold Item 1. See Sec.  1.245A-6(b)(2)(ii)(C)(1). US1 
therefore applies Sec.  1.245A-8 (rules for complex cases) for its 
2018 taxable year. See Sec.  1.245A-6(b).
    (ii) Analysis--(A) Ownership requirement. With respect to each 
of Item 1 and Item 2, the ownership requirement of Sec.  1.245A-
8(b)(3)(i) is satisfied for US1's 2018 taxable year. This is because 
on at least one day that falls within US1's 2018 taxable year, each 
of Item 1 and Item 2 is held by CFC2, and US1 directly owns all of 
the stock of CFC2 throughout such taxable year (and thus, for 
purposes of applying Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(3)(i), US1 owns at least 10% 
of the interests of CFC2 on at least one day that falls within such 
taxable year). See Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(3).
    (B) Basis benefit amount with respect to Item 1 as a result of 
the Sale. Under Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(4)(i), US1 has a basis benefit 
account with respect to its extraordinary disposition account with 
respect to CFC1. As described in paragraphs (c)(2)(ii)(B)(1) through 
(3) of this section, the balance of the basis benefit account (which 
is initially zero) is, on December 31, 2018, increased by $90x, the 
basis benefit amount with respect to Item 1 and assigned to US1's 
2018 taxable year.
    (1) By reason of the Sale, for CFC2's taxable year beginning 
December 1, 2018, and ending November 30, 2019, the entire $90x of 
disqualified basis of Item 1 is taken into account for U.S. tax 
purposes by CFC2 and, as a result, reduces CFC2's tested income or 
increases CFC2's tested loss. Accordingly, for such taxable year, 
there is a $90x basis benefit amount with respect to Item 1. See 
Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(4)(ii)(A). The result would be the same if the 
Sale were to a related person and thus, pursuant to Sec.  1.951A-
3(h)(2)(ii)(B)(1)(ii), no portion of the $90x of disqualified basis 
were eliminated or reduced by reason of the Sale. See Sec.  1.245A-
8(b)(4)(ii)(B).
    (2) The $90x basis benefit amount with respect to Item 1 is 
assigned to US1's 2018 taxable year. This is because the ownership 
requirement of Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(3)(i) is satisfied with respect to 
Item 1 for US1's 2018 taxable year, and the basis benefit amount 
occurs in CFC2's taxable year beginning December 1, 2018, a taxable 
year of CFC2 that begins within US1's 2018 taxable year (and, but 
for Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(4)(iii)(A)(2)(ii), the basis benefit amount 
would not be assigned to a taxable year of US1, such as the taxable 
year of US1 beginning January 1, 2019, given that, as result of the 
Sale, the ownership requirement of Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(3)(i) would not 
be satisfied with respect to Item 1 for such taxable year). See 
Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(4)(iii)(A).
    (3) On December 31, 2018 (the last day of US1's 2018 taxable 
year), US1's basis benefit account with respect to its extraordinary 
disposition account with respect to CFC1 is increased by $90x, the 
$90x basis benefit amount with respect to Item 1 and assigned to 
US1's 2018 taxable year. The basis benefit account is increased by 
such amount because Item 1 corresponds to US1's extraordinary 
disposition account with respect to CFC1, and the extraordinary 
disposition ownership percentage applicable to such extraordinary 
disposition account is 100. See Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(4)(i)(A).
    (C) Basis benefit amount limitation on reduction to disqualified 
basis. By reason of US1's $140x extraordinary disposition amount for 
US1's 2018 taxable year, the disqualified basis of Item 1 is reduced 
by $30x, and the disqualified basis of Item 2 is reduced by $20x, 
pursuant to Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(1). See Sec.  1.245A-8(b). Paragraphs 
(c)(2)(ii)(C)(1) through (4) of this section describe the 
determinations pursuant to Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(1).
    (1) For purposes of determining the reduction to the 
disqualified bases of Item 1 and Item 2, the disqualified bases of 
the Items are determined on December 1, 2018 (and before the 
application of Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(1)). See Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(1)(ii). 
The disqualified bases of the Items are determined on December 1, 
2018, because that date is the first day of the taxable year of CFC2 
beginning on December 1, 2018, which is the taxable year of CFC2 
(the specified property owner of each of Item 1 and Item 2) that 
includes December 31, 2018, the date on which US1's 2018 taxable 
year ends. See Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(2)(i). For purposes of applying 
Sec. Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(1) and Sec.  1.245A-9(b)(2) for US1's 2018 
taxable year, CFC2 is the specified property owner of each of Item 1 
and Item 2 because, on at least one day of CFC2's taxable year that 
includes the date on which US1's 2018 taxable year ends (that is, on 
at least one day of CFC2's taxable year beginning December 1, 2018), 
CFC2 held the Item. See Sec.  1.245A-9(b)(2)(iii). CFC2 is the 
specified property owner of Item 1 even though Individual A also 
held Item 1 during Individual A's taxable year that includes the 
date on which US1's 2018 taxable year ends because CFC2 held Item 1 
on an earlier date than Individual A. See Sec.  1.245A-9(b)(2)(iii).
    (2) Pursuant to Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(1), the disqualified basis of 
Item 1 is reduced by $30x, computed as the product of--
    (i) $50x, the excess of the extraordinary disposition amount 
($140x) over the balance of the basis benefit account with respect 
to US1's extraordinary disposition with respect to CFC1 ($90x); and
    (ii) A fraction, the numerator of which is $90x (the 
disqualified basis of Item 1 on December 1, 2018, and before the 
application of Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(1)), and the denominator of which 
is $150x (the disqualified basis of Item 1, $90x, plus the 
disqualified basis of Item 2, $60x, in each case determined on 
December 1, 2018, and before the application of Sec.  1.245A-
8(b)(1)). See paragraph Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(1).
    (3) Pursuant to Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(1), the disqualified basis of 
Item 2 is reduced by $20x, computed as the product of--
    (i) $50x, the excess of the extraordinary disposition amount 
($140x) over the balance of the basis benefit account with respect 
to US1's extraordinary disposition with respect to CFC1 ($90x); and
    (ii) A fraction, the numerator of which is $60x (the 
disqualified basis of Item 2 on December 1, 2018, and before the 
application of paragraph (b)(1) of this section), and the 
denominator of which is $150x (the disqualified basis of Item 1, 
$90x, plus the disqualified basis of Item 2, $60x, in each case 
determined on December 1, 2018, and before the application of Sec.  
1.245A-8(b)(1)). See Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(1).
    (4) The $30x and $20x reductions to the disqualified bases of 
Item 1 and Item 2, respectively, occur on December 1, 2018, the date 
on which the disqualified bases of the Items are determined for 
purposes of determining the reductions pursuant to Sec.  1.245A-
8(b)(1). See Sec.  1.245A-9(b)(2)(ii).
    (D) Reduction of basis benefit account. The balance of the basis 
benefit account with respect to US1's extraordinary disposition 
account with respect to CFC1 is decreased by $90x, the amount by 
which, for CFC2's taxable year beginning December 1, 2018, the 
disqualified bases of Item 1 and Item 2 would have been reduced 
pursuant to Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(1) but for the $90x balance of the 
basis benefit account. See Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(4)(i)(B). The reduction 
to the balance of the basis benefit account occurs on December 31, 
2018, and after the completion of all other computations pursuant to 
Sec.  1.245A-8(b). See Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(4)(i)(B).
    (3) Example 3. Reduction in balance of extraordinary disposition 
account under rules for simple cases by reason of allocation and 
apportionment of deductions to residual CFC gross income--(i) Facts. 
The facts are the same as in paragraph (c)(1)(i) of this section 
(Example 1) (and the results are the same as in paragraph 
(c)(1)(ii)(A) of this section), except that CFC1 does not make a 
distribution to US1. In addition, during CFC2's taxable year 
beginning December 1, 2018, and ending November 30, 2019, the 
disqualified basis of Item 1 gives rise to a $6x amortization 
deduction, and the disqualified basis of Item 2 gives rise to a $4x 
amortization deduction, and each of the amortization deductions is 
allocated and apportioned to residual CFC gross income of CFC2 
solely by reason of Sec.  1.951A-2(c)(5) (though, but for Sec.  
1.951A-2(c)(5), would have been allocated and apportioned to gross 
tested income of CFC2). Further, as of the end of CFC2's taxable 
year ending November 30, 2019, CFC2 has $15x of earnings and 
profits. Lastly, because the conditions of Sec.  1.245A-6(b)(1) and 
(2) are satisfied for US1's 2018 taxable year, US1 chooses to apply 
Sec.  1.245A-7 (rules for simple cases) in lieu of Sec.  1.245A-8 
(rules for complex cases) for that taxable year.

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    (ii) Analysis. Pursuant to Sec.  1.245A-7(c)(1), US1's 
extraordinary disposition account with respect to CFC1 is reduced by 
the lesser of the amount described in Sec.  1.245A-7(c)(1)(i) with 
respect to US1, and the RGI account of US1 with respect to CFC2 that 
relates to its extraordinary disposition account with respect to 
CFC1. See Sec.  1.245A-7(c)(1). Paragraphs (c)(3)(ii)(A) through (D) 
of this section describe the determinations pursuant to Sec.  
1.245A-8(c)(1).
    (A) Computation of adjusted earnings of CFC2, and amount 
described in Sec.  1.245A-7(c)(1)(i) with respect to US1. To 
determine the amount described in Sec.  1.245A-7(c)(1)(i) with 
respect to US1, the adjusted earnings of CFC2 must be computed for 
CFC2's taxable year ending November 30, 2019. See Sec.  1.245A-
7(c)(1)(i). Paragraphs (c)(3)(ii)(A)(1) and (2) of this section 
describe these determinations.
    (1) The adjusted earnings of CFC2 for its taxable year ending 
November 30, 2019, is $25x, computed as $15x (CFC2's earnings and 
profits as of November 30, 2019, the last day of that taxable year), 
plus $10x (the sum of the $6x and $4x amortization deductions of 
CFC2 for that taxable year, which is the amount of all deductions or 
losses of CFC2 that is or was attributable to disqualified basis of 
items of specified property and allocated and apportioned to 
residual CFC gross income of CFC2 solely by reason of Sec.  1.951A-
2(c)(5)(i)). See Sec.  1.245A-7(c)(3).
    (2) For CFC2's taxable year ending November 30, 2019, the amount 
described in Sec.  1.245A-7(c)(1)(i) with respect to US1 is $25x, 
computed as the excess of $25x (the adjusted earnings) over $0 (the 
sum of the balance of the previously taxed earnings and profits 
accounts with respect to CFC2).
    (B) Increase to balance of RGI account. Under Sec.  1.245A-
9(d)(11), US1 has an RGI account with respect to CFC2 that relates 
to its extraordinary disposition account with respect to CFC1. On 
November 30, 2019 (the last day of CFC2's taxable year), the balance 
of the RGI account (which is initially zero) is increased by $10x, 
the sum of the $6x and $4x amortization deductions of CFC2 for its 
taxable year ending November 30, 2019. See Sec.  1.245A-7(c)(4)(i). 
Each of the amortization deductions is taken into account for this 
purpose because, but for Sec.  1.951A-2(c)(5)(i), the deduction 
would have decreased CFC2's tested income or increased or given rise 
to a tested loss of CFC2. See Sec.  1.245A-7(c)(4)(i).
    (C) Reduction in balance of extraordinary disposition account. 
Pursuant to Sec.  1.245A-7(c)(1), US1's extraordinary disposition 
account with respect to CFC1 is reduced by $10x, the lesser of the 
amount described in Sec.  1.245A-7(c)(1)(i) with respect to US1 for 
CFC2's taxable year ending November 30, 2019 ($25x), and the balance 
of US1's RGI account with respect to CFC2 that relates to its 
extraordinary disposition account with respect to CFC1 ($10x, 
determined as of November 30, 2019, but without regard to the 
application of Sec.  1.245A-7(c)(4)(ii) for the taxable year of CFC2 
ending on that date). See Sec.  1.245A-7(c)(1). The $10x reduction 
in the balance of US1's extraordinary disposition account occurs on 
December 31, 2019, the last day of US1's taxable year that includes 
November 30, 2019 (the last day of CFC2's taxable year). See Sec.  
1.245A-9(c)(3).
    (D) Reduction in balance of RGI account. On November 30, 2019 
(the last day of CFC2's taxable year), the balance of US1's RGI 
account with respect to CFC2 that relates to its extraordinary 
disposition account with respect to CFC1 is decreased by $10x, the 
amount of the reduction, pursuant to Sec.  1.245A-7(c)(1) section 
and by reason of the RGI account, to US1's extraordinary disposition 
account with respect to CFC1. See Sec.  1.245A-7(c)(4)(ii). 
Therefore, following that reduction, the balance of the RGI account 
is zero ($10x-$10x).
    (iii) Alternative facts in which the reduction is limited by 
earnings and profits. The facts are the same as in paragraph 
(c)(3)(i) of this section (Example 3), except that CFC2 has a $5x 
deficit in its earnings and profits as of the end of its taxable 
year ending November 30, 2019. In this case--
    (A) The adjusted earnings of CFC2 for its taxable year ending 
November 30, 2019, is $5x, computed as -$5x (CFC2's deficit in 
earnings and profits as of November 30, 2019) plus $10x (the sum of 
the $6x and $4x amortization deductions of CFC2), see Sec.  1.245A-
7(c)(3);
    (B) The amount described in Sec.  1.245A-7(c)(1)(i) with respect 
to US1 for CFC's taxable year ending November 30, 2019, is $5x, 
computed as the excess of $5x (the adjusted earnings) over $0 (the 
sum of the balance of the previously taxed earnings and profits 
accounts with respect to CFC2), see Sec.  1.245A-7(c)(1)(i);
    (C) On December 31, 2019, US1's extraordinary disposition 
account with respect to CFC1 is reduced by $5x, the lesser of the 
amount described in Sec.  1.245A-7(c)(1)(i) with respect to US1 for 
CFC2's taxable year ending November 30, 2019 ($5x), and the balance 
of US1's RGI account with respect to CFC2 that relates to its 
extraordinary disposition account with respect to CFC1 ($10x, 
determined as of November 30, 2019, but without regard to the 
application of Sec.  1.245A-8(c)(4)(i)(B) for the taxable year of 
CFC2 ending on that date), see Sec. Sec.  1.245A-7(c)(1) and 1.245A-
9(c)(3); and
    (D) On November 30, 2019 (the last day of CFC2's taxable year), 
the balance of US1's RGI account with respect to CFC2 is decreased 
by $5x (the amount of the reduction, pursuant to Sec.  1.245A-
7(c)(1) and by reason of the RGI account, to US1's extraordinary 
disposition account with respect to CFC1) and, therefore, following 
such reduction, the balance of the RGI account is $5x ($10x-$5x), 
see Sec.  1.245A-7(c)(4)(ii).
    (4) Example 4. Reduction to extraordinary disposition accounts 
limited by Sec.  1.245A-8(c)(6)--(i) Facts. The facts are the same 
as in paragraph (c)(3)(iii) of this section (Example 3, alternative 
facts in which the reduction is limited by earnings and profits) 
(and the results are the same as in paragraph (c)(1)(ii)(A) of this 
section), except that US1 also owns 100% of the stock of US2, which 
owns 100% of the stock of CFC3, and on November 30, 2018, in a 
transaction that was an extraordinary disposition, CFC3 sold an item 
of specified property (``Item 3'') to CFC2 in exchange for $200x of 
cash. Item 3 had a basis of $0 in the hands of CFC3 immediately 
before the sale and, therefore, CFC3 recognized $200x of gain as a 
result of the sale ($200x-$0), Item 3 has $200x of disqualified 
basis under Sec.  1.951A-2(c)(5), and US2 has an extraordinary 
disposition account with respect to CFC3 with an initial balance of 
$200x under Sec.  1.245A-5(c)(3)(i)(A). Moreover, during CFC2's 
taxable year beginning December 1, 2018, and ending November 30, 
2019, the disqualified basis of Item 3 gives rise to a $20x 
amortization deduction, which is allocated and apportioned to 
residual CFC gross income of CFC2 solely by reason of Sec.  1.951A-
2(c)(5) (though, but for Sec.  1.951A-2(c)(5), would have been 
allocated and apportioned to gross tested income of CFC2). Further, 
as of the end of US1's 2018 taxable year, the balance of US1's basis 
benefit account with respect to its extraordinary disposition 
account with respect to CFC1 is $0; similarly, as of the end of 
US2's 2018 taxable year, the balance of US2's basis benefit account 
with respect to its extraordinary disposition account with respect 
to CFC2 is $0. Because CFC2 holds items of specified property that 
correspond to more than one extraordinary disposition account (that 
is, Item 1 and Item 2 correspond to US1's extraordinary disposition 
account with respect to CFC2, and Item 3 corresponds to US2's 
extraordinary disposition account with respect to CFC2), the 
condition of Sec.  1.245A-6(b)(2) is not satisfied. See Sec.  
1.245A-6(b)(2)(ii)(C)(3). US1 and US2 therefore apply Sec.  1.245A-8 
(rules for complex cases) for their 2018 taxable years.
    (ii) Analysis. Pursuant to Sec.  1.245A-8(c)(1), US1's 
extraordinary disposition account with respect to CFC1 is, subject 
to the limitation in Sec.  1.245A-8(c)(6), reduced by the lesser of 
the amount described in Sec.  1.245A-8(c)(1)(i) with respect to US1, 
and the RGI account of US1 with respect to CFC2 that relates to its 
extraordinary disposition account with respect to CFC1. See Sec.  
1.245A-8(c)(1). Similarly, US2's extraordinary disposition account 
with respect to CFC3 is, subject to the limitation in Sec.  1.245A-
8(c)(6), reduced by the lesser of the amount described in Sec.  
1.245A-8(c)(1)(i) with respect to US2, and the RGI account of US2 
with respect to CFC2 that relates to its extraordinary disposition 
account with respect to CFC3. See Sec.  1.245A-8(c)(1). Paragraphs 
(c)(4)(ii)(A) through (F) of this section describe the 
determinations pursuant to Sec.  1.245A-8(c)(1).
    (A) Ownership requirement. Each of US1 and US2 satisfy the 
ownership requirement of Sec.  1.245A-8(c)(5) for CFC2's taxable 
year ending November 30, 2019, because on the last day of that 
taxable year each is a United States shareholder with respect to 
CFC2. See Sec.  1.245A-8(c)(5).
    (B) Computation of adjusted earnings of CFC2, and amount 
described in Sec.  1.245A-8(c)(1)(i) with respect to US1 and US2. 
The adjusted earnings of CFC2 for its taxable year ending November 
30, 2019, is $25x, computed as -$5x (CFC2's deficit in earnings and 
profits as of November 30, 2019), plus $30x (the sum of the $6x, 
$4x, and $20x amortization deductions of CFC2). See Sec.  1.245A-
8(c)(3). For CFC2's taxable year ending November 30, 2019, the 
amount described in Sec.  1.245A-8(c)(1)(i) with respect to US1 is 
$25x, computed as the excess of the

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product of $25x (the adjusted earnings) and 100% (the percentage of 
the stock of CFC2 that US1 and its domestic affiliate, US2, own), 
over $0 (the sum of the balance of certain previously taxed earnings 
and profits accounts and hybrid deduction accounts). See Sec.  
1.245A-8(c)(1)(i). Similarly, for CFC2's taxable year ending 
November 30, 2019, the amount described in Sec.  1.245A-8(c)(1)(i) 
with respect to US2 is $25x, computed as the excess of the product 
of $25x (the adjusted earnings) and 100% (the percentage of the 
stock of CFC2 that US2 and its domestic affiliate, US1, own), over 
$0 (the sum of the balance of certain previously taxed earnings and 
profits accounts and hybrid deduction accounts). See Sec.  1.245A-
8(c)(1)(i).
    (C) Increase to balance of RGI account. As described in 
paragraph (c)(3)(ii)(B) of this section, US1 has an RGI account with 
respect to CFC2 that relates to its extraordinary disposition 
account with respect to CFC1, and the balance of the RGI account is 
$10x on November 30, 2019 (the last day of CFC2's taxable year). 
Similarly, US2 has an RGI account with respect to CFC2 that relates 
to its extraordinary disposition account with respect to CFC3, and 
the balance of the RGI account is $20x on November 30, 2019 
(reflecting a $20x increase to the balance of the account for the 
$20x amortization deduction of CFC2 for its taxable year ending 
November 30, 2019). See Sec.  1.245A-8(c)(4)(i).
    (D) Reduction in balance of extraordinary disposition accounts 
but for Sec.  1.245A-8(c)(6). But for the application of Sec.  
1.245A-8(c)(6), US1's extraordinary disposition account with respect 
to CFC2 would be reduced by $10x, which is the lesser of $25x, the 
amount described in Sec.  1.245A-8(c)(1)(i) with respect to US1 for 
CFC2's taxable year ending November 30, 2019, and $10x, the balance 
of the RGI account of US1 with respect to CFC2 that relates to its 
extraordinary disposition account with respect to CFC1 (determined 
as of November 30, 2019, but without regard to the application of 
Sec.  1.245A-8(c)(4)(i)(B) for the taxable year of CFC2 ending on 
that date). See Sec.  1.245A-8(c)(1)(i) and (ii). Similarly, but for 
the application of Sec.  1.245A-8(c)(6), US2's extraordinary 
disposition account with respect to CFC3 would be reduced by $20x, 
which is the lesser of $25x, the amount described in Sec.  1.245A-
8(c)(1)(i) with respect to US2 for CFC2's taxable year ending 
November 30, 2019, and $20x, the balance of the RGI account of US2 
with respect to CFC2 that relates to its extraordinary disposition 
account with respect to CFC3 (determined as of November 30, 2019, 
but without regard to the application of Sec.  1.245A-8(c)(4)(i)(B) 
for the taxable year of CFC2 ending on that date). See Sec.  1.245A-
8(c)(1)(i) and (ii).
    (E) Application of limitation of Sec.  1.245A-8(c)(6). As 
described in paragraph (c)(4)(ii)(D) of this section, but for the 
application of Sec.  1.245A-8(c)(6), there would be a total of $30x 
of reductions to US1's extraordinary disposition account with 
respect to CFC1, and US2's extraordinary disposition account with 
respect to CFC3, by reason of the application of Sec.  1.245A-
8(c)(1) with respect to CFC2's taxable year ending November 30, 
2019. Because that $30x exceeds the amount described in Sec.  
1.245A-8(c)(1)(i) with respect to US1 and US2 ($25x)--
    (1) US1's extraordinary disposition account with respect to CFC1 
is reduced by $7.86x, computed as $10x (the reduction that would 
occur but for Sec.  1.245A-8(c)(6)) less the product of $5x (the 
excess amount, computed as $30x, the total reductions that would 
occur but for the application of Sec.  1.245A-8(c)(6), less $25x, 
the amount described in Sec.  1.245A-8(c)(1)(i)) and a fraction, the 
numerator of which is $150x (the balance of US1's extraordinary 
disposition account with respect to CFC1) and the denominator of 
which is $350x ($150x, the balance of US1's extraordinary 
disposition account with respect to CFC1, plus $200x, the balance of 
US2's extraordinary disposition account with respect to CFC3), see 
Sec.  1.245A-8(c)(6); and
    (2) US2's extraordinary disposition account with respect to CFC3 
is reduced by $17.14x, computed as $20x (the reduction that would 
occur but for Sec.  1.245A-8(c)(6)) less the product of $5x (the 
excess amount, computed as $30x, the total reductions that would 
occur but for the application of Sec.  1.245A-8(c)(6), less $25x, 
the amount described in Sec.  1.245A-8(c)(1)(i)) and a fraction, the 
numerator of which is $200x (the balance of US2's extraordinary 
disposition account with respect to CFC3) and the denominator of 
which is $350x ($150x, the balance of US1's extraordinary 
disposition account with respect to CFC1, plus $200x, the balance of 
US2's extraordinary disposition account with respect to CFC3), see 
Sec.  1.245A-8(c)(6) of this section.
    (F) Reduction in balance of RGI accounts. On November 30, 2019 
(the last day of CFC2's taxable year)--
    (1) The balance of US1's RGI account with respect to CFC2 that 
relates to its extraordinary disposition account with respect to 
CFC1 is decreased by $7.86x (the amount of the reduction, pursuant 
to Sec.  1.245A-8(c)(1) and by reason of the RGI account, to US1's 
extraordinary disposition account with respect to CFC1) and, thus, 
following that reduction, the balance of the RGI account is $2.14x 
($10x-$7.86x), see Sec.  1.245A-8(c)(4)(i)(B); and
    (2) The balance of US2's RGI account with respect to CFC2 that 
relates to its extraordinary disposition account with respect to 
CFC3 is decreased by $17.14x (the amount of the reduction, pursuant 
to Sec.  1.245A-8(c)(1) and by reason of the RGI account, to US2's 
extraordinary disposition account with respect to CFC3) and, thus, 
following that reduction, the balance of the RGI account is $2.86x 
($20x-$17.14x), see Sec.  1.245A-8(c)(4)(i)(B).
    (5) Example 5. Computation of duplicate DQB--(i) Facts. The 
facts are the same as in paragraph (c)(1)(i) of this section 
(Example 1) (and the results are the same as in paragraph 
(c)(1)(ii)(A) of this section), except that CFC1 does not make any 
distribution to US1, and on November 30, 2018, immediately after the 
Disqualified Transfer, CFC2 transfers Item 1 to newly-formed CFC3 
solely in exchange for the sole share of stock of CFC3 (the 
contribution, ``Contribution 1,'' and the share of stock of CFC3, 
the ``CFC3 Share'') and, immediately after Contribution 1, CFC3 
transfers Item 1 to newly-formed CFC4 solely in exchange for the 
sole share of stock of CFC4 (the contribution, ``Contribution 2,'' 
and the share of stock of CFC4, the ``CFC4 Share''). Pursuant to 
section 358(a)(1), CFC2's basis in its share of stock of CFC3 is 
$90x, and CFC3's basis in its share of stock of CFC4 is $90x basis. 
As a result of Contribution 1, the condition of Sec.  1.245A-6(b)(2) 
is not satisfied, because on at least one day of CFC2's taxable year 
ending on November 30, 2018 (which ends within US1's 2018 taxable 
year), CFC2 does not hold Item 1. See Sec.  1.245A-
6(b)(2)(ii)(C)(1). US1 therefore applies Sec.  1.245A-8 (rules for 
complex cases) for its 2018 taxable year. See Sec.  1.245A-6(b).
    (ii) Analysis--(A) Application of exchanged basis rule under 
section 951A to Contribution 1 and Contribution 2. As a result of 
Contribution 1, pursuant to Sec.  1.951A-3(h)(2)(ii)(B)(2)(ii), the 
disqualified basis of CFC3 Share includes the disqualified basis of 
Item 1 ($90x), and therefore the disqualified basis of CFC3 Share is 
$90x. Similarly, as a result of Contribution 2, pursuant to Sec.  
1.951A-3(h)(2)(ii)(B)(2)(ii), the disqualified basis of CFC4 Share 
also includes the disqualified basis of Item 1 ($90x), and therefore 
the disqualified basis of CFC4 Share is $90x.
    (B) Determination of duplicate DQB of CFC3 Share as a result of 
Contribution 1. Because the disqualified basis of CFC3 Share 
includes the disqualified basis of Item 1, CFC3 Share is an item of 
exchanged basis property that relates to Item 1. See Sec.  1.245A-
8(d)(2)(ii). In addition, because CFC3 Share is an item of exchanged 
basis property that relates to Item 1 (which corresponds to US1's 
extraordinary disposition account with respect to CFC1), CFC3 Share 
is, for purposes of Sec.  1.245A-8, treated as an item of specified 
property that corresponds to US1's extraordinary disposition account 
with respect to CFC1. See Sec.  1.245A-8(d)(2)(i). Further, the 
duplicate DQB of CFC3 Share as to Item 1 is $90x, the portion of the 
disqualified basis of CFC3 Share that includes Item 1's disqualified 
basis of $90x. See Sec.  1.245A-8(d)(2)(iii)(A).
    (C) Determination of duplicate DQB of CFC4 Share as a result of 
Contribution 2. For reasons similar to those described in paragraph 
(c)(5)(ii)(B) of this section, CFC4 Share is an item of exchanged 
basis property that relates to Item 1, CFC4 is treated for purposes 
of Sec.  1.245A-8 as an item of specified property that corresponds 
to US1's extraordinary disposition account with respect to CFC1, and 
the duplicate DQB of CFC4 Share as to Item 1 is $90x.
    (D) Determination of duplicate DQB of CFC3 Share as a result of 
Contribution 2. Because the disqualified basis of CFC3 Share and the 
disqualified basis of CFC4 Share each includes $90x of the 
disqualified basis of Item 1 and CFC3 receives the CFC4 Share in 
Contribution 2, the $90x of disqualified basis of CFC3 Share is 
attributable to the $90x of disqualified basis of CFC4 Share, and 
CFC3 Share is an item of exchanged basis property that relates to 
CFC4 Share. See Sec.  1.245A-8(d)(2)(i) and (d)(2)(iii)(C). In 
addition, the duplicate DQB of CFC3 Share as to CFC4 Share is $90x. 
See Sec.  1.245A-8(d)(2)(iii)(A).
    (E) Application of duplicate basis rules in Sec.  1.245A-
8(b)(5). For purposes of computing the fraction described in Sec.  
1.245A-8(b)(1)(ii), if US1's extraordinary disposition account

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with respect to CFC1 were to give rise to an extraordinary 
disposition amount or a tiered extraordinary disposition amount 
during US1's 2018 taxable year, then the duplicate DQB of CFC3 Share 
and the duplicate DQB of CFC4 Share would not be taken into account, 
because the disqualified basis of Item 1 (an item of specified 
property that corresponds to US1's extraordinary disposition account 
and as to which each of CFC3 Share and CFC4 share relates) would be 
taken into account. See Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(1)(ii) and (b)(5)(i)(A). 
Accordingly, in such a case, for US1's 2018 taxable year, the 
numerator of the fraction described in Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(1)(ii) 
would reflect only the disqualified basis of Item 1 or Item 2, as 
applicable, and the denominator would reflect only the sum of the 
disqualified basis of each of Item 1 and Item 2. See Sec.  1.245A-
8(b)(1)(ii) and (b)(5)(i)(A). Furthermore, to the extent there were 
to be a reduction under Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(1) to the disqualified 
basis of Item 1, then the duplicate DQB of CFC4 Share would be 
reduced (but not below zero) by the product of the reduction to the 
disqualified basis of Item 1 and a fraction, the numerator of which 
would be $90x (the duplicate DQB of CFC4 Share), and the denominator 
of which would also be $90x (the duplicate DQB of CFC4 Share). See 
Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(5)(i)(B). The $90x of duplicate DQB of CFC3 Share 
would be excluded from the denominator of the fraction described in 
the previous sentence because it is attributable to the $90x of 
duplicate DQB of CFC4 Share. See Sec.  1.245A-8(b)(5)(i)(B)(2) (last 
sentence). For reasons similar to those described in this paragraph 
(c)(4)(ii)(E) with respect to the application of Sec.  1.245A-
8(b)(5)(i)(B) to CFC4 Share, the duplicate DQB of CFC3 Share would 
be reduced (but not below zero) by the product of the reduction to 
the disqualified basis of Item 1 and a fraction, the numerator of 
which would be $90x, and the denominator of which would also be 
$90x.


Sec.  1.245A-11  Applicability dates.

    (a) In general. Sections 1.245A-6 through 1.245A-11 apply to 
taxable years of a foreign corporation beginning on or after [date a 
Treasury decision adopting these rules as final regulations is 
published in the Federal Register] and to taxable years of section 245A 
shareholders in which or with which such taxable years end.
    (b) Exception. Notwithstanding paragraph (a) of this section, a 
taxpayer may choose to apply Sec. Sec.  1.245A-6 through 1.245A-11 for 
taxable years of a foreign corporation beginning before [date a 
Treasury decision adopting these rules as final regulations is 
published in the Federal Register] and to taxable years of section 245A 
shareholders in which or with which such taxable years end, provided 
that the taxpayer and all persons bearing a relationship to the 
taxpayer described in section 267(b) or 707(b) apply Sec. Sec.  1.245A-
6 through 1.245A-11, in their entirety, and Sec.  1.6038-2(f)(18) for 
all such taxable years.
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Par. 4. Section 1.951A-2, as proposed to be amended at 85 FR 19858 
(April 8, 2020), is further amended by:
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1. Redesignating paragraph (c)(5)(iv) as paragraph (c)(5)(v).
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2. Adding new paragraph (c)(5)(iv).
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3. In newly redesignated paragraph (c)(5)(v)(B)(1), removing the 
language ``(c)(5)(iv)(A)(1)'' and adding the language 
``(c)(5)(v)(A)(1)'' in its place.
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4. In newly redesignated paragraph (c)(5)(v)(C)(1), removing the 
language ``(c)(5)(iv)(B)(1)'' and adding the language 
``(c)(5)(v)(B)(1)'' in its place.
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5. Redesignating paragraph (c)(6)(iv) as paragraph (c)(6)(v).
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6. Adding new paragraph (c)(6)(iv).
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7. In newly redesignated paragraph (c)(6)(v)(B)(1), removing the 
language ``(c)(6)(iv)(A)(1) and adding the language ``(c)(6)(v)(A)(1)'' 
in its place.
    The additions read as follows:


Sec.  1.951A-2  Tested income and tested loss.

* * * * *
    (c) * * *
    (5) * * *
    (iv) Reductions to disqualified basis pursuant to coordination 
rules. See Sec.  1.245A-7(b) or Sec.  1.245A-8(b), as applicable, for 
reductions to disqualified basis resulting from the application of 
Sec.  1.245A-5.
* * * * *
    (6) * * *
    (iv) Reductions to disqualified payments pursuant to coordination 
rules. See Sec.  1.245A-5(j)(8) and Sec.  1.245A-7(b) or Sec.  1.245A-
8(b), as applicable, for reductions to disqualified payments resulting 
from the application of Sec.  1.245A-5.
* * * * *
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Par. 5. Section 1.6038-2, as proposed to be amended at 85 FR 44650 
(July 23, 2020), is further amended by adding paragraphs (f)(17) 
and(18) and (m)(5) to read as follows:


Sec.  1.6038-2  Information returns required of United States persons 
with respect to annual accounting periods of certain foreign 
corporations.

* * * * *
    (f) * * *
    (17) Reporting of disqualified basis and disqualified payments. If 
for the annual accounting period of a corporation it holds an item of 
property having disqualified basis within the meaning of Sec.  1.951A-
3(h)(2)(ii) or Sec.  1.951A-2(c)(5), or incurs an item of deduction or 
loss related to a disqualified payment (within the meaning of Sec.  
1.951A-2(c)(6)(ii)(A)), then Form 5471 (or successor form) must contain 
such information about the disqualified basis, or such information 
relating to the disqualified payment, in the form and manner and to the 
extent prescribed by the form, instructions to the form, publication, 
or other guidance published in the Internal Revenue Bulletin.
    (18) Adjustments to extraordinary disposition accounts and 
disqualified basis If for the annual accounting period a section 245A 
shareholder of the corporation reduces its extraordinary disposition 
account pursuant to Sec.  1.245A-7(c) or Sec.  1.245A-8(c), as 
applicable, or the corporation reduces the disqualified basis in an 
item of specified property pursuant to Sec.  1.245A-7(b) or Sec.  
1.245A-8(b), as applicable, then Form 5471 (or a successor form) must 
contain such information about the reduction to the extraordinary 
disposition account or disqualified basis, as applicable, in the form 
and manner and to the extent prescribed by the form, instructions to 
the form, publication, or other guidance published in the Internal 
Revenue Bulletin.
* * * * *
    (m) * * *
    (5) Special rule for paragraphs (f)(17) and (18) of this section. 
Paragraphs (f)(17) and (18) of this section apply with respect to 
information for annual accounting periods beginning after [date a 
Treasury decision adopting these rules as final regulations is 
published in the Federal Register]. In addition, as provided in Sec.  
1.245A-11(b), paragraph (f)(18) of this section applies with respect to 
information for an annual accounting period that includes a taxable 
year for which a taxpayer has chosen to apply Sec. Sec.  1.245A-6 
through 1.245A-11 pursuant to Sec.  1.245A-11(b).
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Sunita Lough,
Deputy Commissioner for Services and Enforcement.
[FR Doc. 2020-18544 Filed 8-21-20; 4:15 pm]
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