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S 2380 110th Congress Senate Taxation Commerce Computer software Finance and Financial Sector Foreign Trade and International Finance Foreign banks and banking Foreign corporations Holding companies Income tax Insurance Leases Rent Science, Technology, Communications Stockholders Tax exemption Taxation of foreign income

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modernize the application of the subpart F rules to computer software, to expand the subpart F de minimis rule, and to extend certain expiring provisions.

Introduced: November 16, 2007 See on congress.gov
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Nov 16, 2007
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Nov 16, 2007
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to taxation of U.S. shareholders of controlled foreign corporations to: (1) exclude from foreign personal holding company income rents and royalties attributable to computer software that is leased or licensed for use outside the United States and that was developed or marketed by a controlled foreign corporation or related person; (2) increase to $5 million (currently, $1 million) the de minimis dollar amount for determinations of foreign base company income; (3) permanently extend the look-thru rule for for the tax treatment of income received or accrued from a controlled foreign corporation; and (4) permanently extend the exemption from foreign personal holding company income for active financing income (income from insurance, banking, financing, or similar businesses) earned on business operations overseas.

What's happening now November 16, 2007

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

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