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Title 26
Title 26
NORMAL TAXES AND SURTAXES
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Tax imposed
Definitions and special rules
Tax tables for individuals
Cross references relating to tax on individuals
Tax imposed
Cross references relating to tax on corporations
Effect of changes
Alternative minimum tax imposed
Adjustments in computing alternative minimum taxable income
Adjusted financial statement income
Items of tax preference
Denial of certain losses
Other definitions and special rules
Tax on base erosion payments of taxpayers with substantial gross receipts
Gross income defined
Adjusted gross income defined
Taxable income defined
Ordinary income defined
Ordinary loss defined
Treatment of community income
2-percent floor on miscellaneous itemized deductions
Overall limitation on itemized deductions
Annuities; certain proceeds of endowment and life insurance contracts
Services of child
Prizes and awards
Dealers in tax-exempt securities
Commodity credit loans
Gross up for deemed paid foreign tax credit
Group-term life insurance purchased for employees
Restoration of value of certain securities
Reimbursement of moving expenses
Property transferred in connection with performance of services
Transfer of appreciated property to political organizations
Unemployment compensation
Social security and tier 1 railroad retirement benefits
Alcohol and biodiesel fuels credits
Certain amounts with respect to nuclear decommissioning costs
Illegal Federal irrigation subsidies
Certain foreign branch losses transferred to specified 10-percent owned foreign corporations
Certain death benefits
Gifts and inheritances
Interest on State and local bonds
Compensation for injuries or sickness
Amounts received under accident and health plans
Contributions by employer to accident and health plans
Rental value of parsonages
Income from discharge of indebtedness
Improvements by lessee on lessor’s property
Qualified lessee construction allowances for short-term leases
Recovery of tax benefit items
Certain combat zone compensation of members of the Armed Forces
Income of States, municipalities, etc.
Qualified scholarships
Contributions to the capital of a corporation
Meals or lodging furnished for the convenience of the employer
Exclusion of gain from sale of principal residence
Certain reduced uniformed services retirement pay
Amounts received under insurance contracts for certain living expenses
Cafeteria plans
Certain cost-sharing payments
Educational assistance programs
Employer contributions to Trump accounts
Dependent care assistance programs
Certain personal injury liability assignments
Certain foster care payments
Certain fringe benefits
Certain military benefits
Income from United States savings bonds used to pay higher education tuition and fees
Energy conservation subsidies provided by public utilities
Adoption assistance programs
Medicare Advantage MSA
Disaster relief payments
Federal subsidies for prescription drug plans
Benefits provided to volunteer firefighters and emergency medical responders
Certain disability-related first responder retirement payments
Indian health care benefits
Indian general welfare benefits
Certain amounts received by wrongfully incarcerated individuals
Assignments to Alaska Native Settlement Trusts
Interest received in action to recover property seized by the Internal Revenue Service based on structuring transaction
Continuation coverage premium assistance
Certain contributions to Trump accounts
Scholarships for qualified elementary or secondary education expenses of eligible students
Interest on loans secured by rural or agricultural real property
Cross references to other Acts
Allowance of deductions for personal exemptions
Dependent defined
Cross references
Allowance of deductions
Trade or business expenses
Interest
Taxes
Losses
Bad debts
Depreciation
Accelerated cost recovery system
Amortization of pollution control facilities
Charitable, etc., contributions and gifts
Amortizable bond premium
Net operating loss deduction
Circulation expenditures
Amortization of research and experimental expenditures
Domestic research or experimental expenditures
Soil and water conservation expenditures; endangered species recovery expenditures
Payments with respect to employees of certain foreign corporations
Amortization of cost of acquiring a lease
Election to expense certain depreciable business assets
Deduction for capital costs incurred in complying with Environmental Protection Agency sulfur regulations
Election to expense certain refineries
Energy efficient commercial buildings deduction
Election to expense advanced mine safety equipment
Expenditures by farmers for fertilizer, etc.
Treatment of certain qualified productions
Activities not engaged in for profit
Recoveries of damages for antitrust violations, etc.
Expenditures to remove architectural and transportation barriers to the handicapped and elderly
Contributions to black lung benefit trust
Tertiary injectants
Treatment of reforestation expenditures
Contributions to employer liability trusts
Start-up expenditures
Deduction for certain unused business credits
Amortization of goodwill and certain other intangibles
Expensing of environmental remediation costs
Qualified business income
Allowance of deductions
Expenses for production of income
Medical, dental, etc., expenses
Deduction of taxes, interest, and business depreciation by cooperative housing corporation tenant-stockholder
Moving expenses
Retirement savings
Archer MSAs
Interest on education loans
Health savings accounts
Qualified tips
Qualified overtime compensation
Cross reference
Allowance of special deductions
Dividends received by corporations
Dividends received from certain foreign corporations
Deduction for foreign source-portion of dividends received by domestic corporations from specified 10-percent owned foreign corporations
Rules applying to deductions for dividends received
Dividends received deduction reduced where portfolio stock is debt financed
Contributions to Alaska Native Settlement Trusts
Organizational expenditures
Limitation on deduction of bond premium on repurchase
Foreign-derived deduction eligible income and net CFC tested income
General rule for disallowance of deductions
Personal, living, and family expenses
Capital expenditures
Capitalization and inclusion in inventory costs of certain expenses
Certain amounts paid in connection with insurance contracts
Expenses and interest relating to tax-exempt income
Carrying charges
Losses, expenses, and interest with respect to transactions between related taxpayers
Certain related party amounts paid or accrued in hybrid transactions or with hybrid entities
Sale of land with unharvested crop
Acquisitions made to evade or avoid income tax
Personal service corporations formed or availed of to avoid or evade income tax
Stapled entities
Debts owed by political parties, etc.
Disposal of coal or domestic iron ore
Holders of life or terminable interest
Disallowance of certain entertainment, etc., expenses
Certain taxes
Certain indirect contributions to political parties
Deductions incurred by certain membership organizations in transactions with members
Interest on indebtedness incurred by corporation to acquire stock or assets of another corporation
Disallowance of certain expenses in connection with business use of home, rental of vacation homes, etc.
Demolition of structures
Certain expenses for which credits are allowable
Expenditures in connection with the illegal sale of drugs
Limitation on depreciation for luxury automobiles; limitation where certain property used for personal purposes
Golden parachute payments
Limitation on certain amounts paid to employee-owners by personal service corporations electing alternative taxable years
Terminal railroad corporations and their shareholders
Special rules relating to corporate preference items
Carryovers in certain corporate acquisitions
Limitation on net operating loss carryforwards and certain built-in losses following ownership change
Special limitations on certain excess credits, etc.
Limitation on use of preacquisition losses to offset built-in gains
Treatment of certain interests in corporations as stock or indebtedness
General rules
Incentive stock options
Employee stock purchase plans
Definitions and special rules
Period for computation of taxable income
Change of annual accounting period
Returns for a period of less than 12 months
Election of taxable year other than required taxable year
Adjustments required by changes in method of accounting
Allocation of income and deductions among taxpayers
Interest on certain deferred payments
Exemption from tax on corporations, certain trusts, etc.
Feeder organizations
Requirements for exemption
Status after organization ceases to qualify for exemption under section 501(c)(3) because of substantial lobbying or because of political activities
Additional requirements for organizations described in paragraph (9) or (17) of section 501(c)
Organizations required to notify Secretary of intent to operate under 501(c)(4)
Termination of private foundation status
Special rules with respect to section 501(c)(3) organizations
Private foundation defined
Imposition of tax on unrelated business income of charitable, etc., organizations
Unrelated business taxable income
Unrelated trade or business
Unrelated debt-financed income
Taxes of foreign countries and possessions of the United States
Exemption of farmers’ cooperatives from tax
Shipowners’ protection and indemnity associations
Political organizations
Certain homeowners associations
Qualified tuition programs
Qualified ABLE programs
Coverdell education savings accounts
Trump accounts
Imposition of accumulated earnings tax
Corporations subject to accumulated earnings tax
Evidence of purpose to avoid income tax
Burden of proof
Accumulated taxable income
Income not placed on annual basis
Reasonable needs of the business
Imposition of personal holding company tax
Definition of personal holding company
Personal holding company income
Rules for determining stock ownership
Undistributed personal holding company income
Income not placed on annual basis
Deduction for deficiency dividends
Definition of deduction for dividends paid
Rules applicable in determining dividends eligible for dividends paid deduction
Rules relating to dividends paid after close of taxable year
Dividend carryover
Consent dividends
Definition of bank
Bad debts, losses, and gains with respect to securities held by financial institutions
Common trust funds
Reserves for losses on loans of banks
Deduction for dividends paid on deposits
Reserves for losses on loans
Alternative tax for mutual savings banks conducting life insurance business
Treatment of transactions in which Federal financial assistance provided
Allowance of deduction for depletion
Basis for cost depletion
Percentage depletion
Limitations on percentage depletion in case of oil and gas wells
Definition of property
Development expenditures
Deduction and recapture of certain mining exploration expenditures
Gain or loss in the case of timber, coal, or domestic iron ore
Income tax treatment of mineral production payments
Continental shelf areas
Recipients of income in respect of decedents
Income taxes of members of Armed Forces, astronauts, and victims of certain terrorist attacks on death
Partners, not partnership, subject to tax
Income and credits of partner
Partnership computations
Partner’s distributive share
Determination of basis of partner’s interest
Taxable years of partner and partnership
Transactions between partner and partnership
Continuation of partnership
Treatment of organization and syndication fees
Terms defined
Tax on insurance companies other than life insurance companies
Insurance company taxable income
Treatment of Blue Cross and Blue Shield organizations, etc.
Determination of taxable investment income
Election by reciprocal
Credit for foreign taxes
Foreign companies carrying on insurance business
Annual accounting period
Certain reinsurance agreements
Discounted unpaid losses defined
Capitalization of certain policy acquisition expenses
Definition of regulated investment company
Taxation of regulated investment companies and their shareholders
Foreign tax credit allowed to shareholders
Credits from tax credit bonds allowed to shareholders
Limitations applicable to dividends received from regulated investment company
Dividends paid by regulated investment company after close of taxable year
Definition of real estate investment trust
Taxation of real estate investment trusts and their beneficiaries
Dividends paid by real estate investment trust after close of taxable year
Adoption of annual accounting period
Deduction for deficiency dividends
Taxation of REMIC’s
Taxation of holders of regular interests
Taxation of residual interests
REMIC defined
Treatment of income in excess of daily accruals on residual interests
Other rules
Other definitions and special rules
Income from sources within the United States
Income from sources without the United States
Special rules for determining source
Definitions and special rules
Source rules for personal property sales
Reports by taxpayers; determinations
Determination of amount of and recognition of gain or loss
Adjusted basis for determining gain or loss
Basis of property—cost
Basis of property included in inventory
Basis of property acquired from a decedent
Basis of property acquired by gifts and transfers in trust
Adjustments to basis
Discharge of indebtedness
Property on which lessee has made improvements
Sale of annuities
Cross references
Exchange of real property held for productive use or investment
Exchange of stock for property
Involuntary conversions
Certain exchanges of insurance policies
Stock for stock of same corporation
Certain exchanges of United States obligations
Certain reacquisitions of real property
Transfer of certain farm, etc., real property
Transfers of property between spouses or incident to divorce
Sales of stock to employee stock ownership plans or certain cooperatives
Sale of property to comply with conflict-of-interest requirements
Rollover of gain from qualified small business stock to another qualified small business stock
Basis established by the Revenue Act of 1932 or 1934 or by the Internal Revenue Code of 1939
Property acquired before
Certain stock of Federal National Mortgage Association
Redeemable ground rents
Transfers of securities under certain agreements
Corporate shareholder’s basis in stock reduced by nontaxed portion of extraordinary dividends
Limitation on taxpayer’s basis or inventory cost in property imported from related persons
Special allocation rules for certain asset acquisitions
Partnership interests held in connection with performance of services
Gain from the sale or exchange of qualified farmland property to qualified farmers
Cross references
Loss from wash sales of stock or securities
Straddles
Partial exclusion for gain from certain small business stock
Limitation on capital losses
Capital loss carrybacks and carryovers
Capital asset defined
Other terms relating to capital gains and losses
Holding period of property
Property used in the trade or business and involuntary conversions
Gains and losses from short sales
Options to buy or sell
Gains or losses from certain terminations
Gains or losses from securities futures contracts
Sale or exchange of patents
Dealers in securities
Real property subdivided for sale
Gain from sale of depreciable property between certain related taxpayers
Cancellation of lease or distributor’s agreement
Losses on small business investment company stock
Loss of small business investment company
Losses on small business stock
Gain from dispositions of certain depreciable property
Gain from certain sales or exchanges of stock in certain foreign corporations
Gain from certain sales or exchanges of patents, etc., to foreign corporations
Gain from dispositions of certain depreciable realty
Gain from disposition of farm land
Transfers of franchises, trademarks, and trade names
Gain from disposition of interest in oil, gas, geothermal, or other mineral properties
Gain from disposition of section 126 property
Section 1256 contracts marked to market
Disposition of converted wetlands or highly erodible croplands
Recharacterization of gain from certain financial transactions
Constructive sales treatment for appreciated financial positions
Gains from constructive ownership transactions
Averaging of farm income
Correction of error
Circumstances of adjustment
Definitions
Amount and method of adjustment
Computation of tax where taxpayer restores substantial amount held under claim of right
Treatment of recoveries of foreign expropriation losses
Alternative tax on qualifying shipping activities
Notional shipping income
Alternative tax election; revocation; termination
Definitions and special rules
Qualifying shipping activities
Items not subject to regular tax; depreciation; interest
Allocation of credits, income, and deductions
Disposition of qualifying vessels
S corporation defined
Election; revocation; termination
Effect of election on corporation
Pass-thru of items to shareholders
Adjustments to basis of stock of shareholders, etc.
Distributions
Coordination with subchapter C
Partnership rules to apply for fringe benefit purposes
Foreign income
Tax imposed on certain built-in gains
Tax imposed when passive investment income of corporation having accumulated earnings and profits exceeds 25 percent of gross receipts
Definitions and special rule
Taxable year of S corporation
Transitional rules on enactment
Organizations to which part applies
Taxable income of cooperatives
Computation of tax where cooperative redeems nonqualified written notices of allocation or nonqualified per-unit retain certificates
Amounts includible in patron’s gross income
Definitions; special rules
Designation procedure
Eligibility criteria
Definitions and special rules
Tax-exempt enterprise zone facility bonds
Regulations
Rules relating to individuals’ title 11 cases
No separate taxable entities for partnerships, corporations, etc.
Designation
Special rules for capital gains invested in opportunity zones