INCOME TAX

REG–102516–15, page 231. This document contains proposed regulations that provide guidance regarding the income inclusion rules under section 50(d)(5) of the Internal Revenue Code (Code) that are applicable to a lessee of investment credit property when a lessor of such property elects to treat the lessee as having acquired the property. These proposed regulations also provide rules to coordinate the section 50(a) recapture rules with the section 50(d)(5) income inclusion rules. In addition, these proposed regulations provide rules regarding income inclusion upon a lease termination, lease disposition by a lessee, or disposition of a partner’s or S corporation shareholder’s entire interest in a lessee partnership or S corporation outside of the recapture period.

Rev. Proc. 2016–40, page 228. This Revenue Procedure provides two safe harbors in which the Service will not assert that a corporation lacks the requisite control for purposes of section 355(a), when a corporation (D) acquires putative control of another corporation (C) through C’s issuance of stock, and C subsequently engages in a transaction that actually or effectively reverses the effect of the issuance.

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