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Introduction

SECTION 3. TRANSACTIONS TO

Internal Revenue Bulletin 2016-32 · 2026-10-03 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · United States

WHICH THIS REVENUE PROCEDURE APPLIES

This revenue procedure applies to transactions in which—

(1) D owns C stock not constituting control of C;

(2) C issues shares of one or more classes of stock to D and/or to other shareholders of C (the issuance), as a result of which D owns C stock possessing at least 80 percent of the total combined voting power of all classes of C stock entitled to

vote and at least 80 percent of the total number of shares of all other classes of stock of C;

(3) D distributes its C stock in a transaction that otherwise qualifies under § 355 (the distribution); and

(4) C subsequently engages in a transaction that, actually or in effect, substantially restores (a) C’s shareholders to the relative interests, direct or indirect, they would have held in C (or a successor to C) had the issuance not occurred; and/or (b) the relative voting rights and value of the C classes of stock that were present prior to the issuance (an unwind).

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