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HR 1542 103th Congress House Taxation Corporation taxes Export subsidies Exports Foreign Trade and International Finance Foreign corporations Income tax Lumber trade Tax deferral Tax exclusion Taxation of foreign income Timber sales

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to deny the benefits of certain export subsidies in the case of exports of certain unprocessed timber.

Introduced: March 30, 1993 See on congress.gov
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Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Mar 30, 1993
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Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that export property eligible for certain tax incentives does not include any unprocessed softwood timber for purposes of: (1) taxation of foreign sales corporations (FSCs); and (2) taxation of domestic international sales corporations (DISCs).

Requires any income from the sale of such unprocessed timber which was cut from an area in the United States to be sourced in the United States. Excludes such income from rules under which: (1) gains, profits, and income involving inventory property purchased in the United States but sold or exchanged elsewhere may be sourced foreign; and (2) income derived from the manufacture of products in the United States and their sale elsewhere may be treated as having a divided source.

Repeals the deferral for income of the controlled foreign corporation from sales or milling (outside the United States) of unprocessed softwood timber to the extent that any controlled foreign corporation is owned by ten percent or more U.S. shareholders.

What's happening now March 30, 1993

Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1542: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to deny the benefits of certain export subsidies in the case of exports of certain unprocessed timber.. 103rd Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/103-HR-1542/
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"H.R. 1542: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to deny the benefits of certain export subsidies in the case of exports of certain unprocessed timber.." 103rd Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/103-HR-1542/.
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H.R. 1542, 103rd Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/103-HR-1542/.
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