Company: TSI
Filing Date: 2025-08-08
Form Type: N-2
Source: 0001193125-25-177098
Chunk: 125

Company: TCW STRATEGIC INCOME FUND INC
Filing Date: 2025-08-08
Form: N-2
Chunk 125
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 Fund. For more information, please see the section of the SAI entitled “Certain U.S. Federal Income Tax Matters.”

The Fund

The Fund has elected to be
treated as, and intends to continue to qualify in each taxable year as, a RIC under Subchapter M of the Code. Assuming the Fund so qualifies and satisfies certain distribution requirements, the Fund generally will not be subject to U.S. federal
income tax on income distributed (including amounts that are reinvested pursuant to the Plan) in a timely manner to its stockholders in the form of dividends or capital gain distributions. If the Fund retains any net capital gains for reinvestment,
it may elect to treat such capital gains as having been distributed to its stockholders. If the Fund makes such an election, each Common Stockholder will be required to report its share of such undistributed net capital gain as long-term capital
gain and will be entitled to claim its share of the U.S. federal income taxes paid by the Fund on such undistributed net capital gain as a credit against its own U.S. federal income tax liability, if any, and to claim a refund on a properly-filed
U.S. federal income tax return to the extent that the credit exceeds such liability. In addition, each Common Stockholder will be entitled to increase the adjusted tax basis of its Common Stock by the difference between its share of such
undistributed net capital gain and the related credit. There can be no assurance that the Fund will make this election if it retains all or a portion of its net capital gain for a taxable year.

To qualify as a RIC for any taxable year, the Fund must, among other things, satisfy both an income test and an asset test for such taxable
year. Specifically, (i) at least 90% of the Fund’s gross income for such taxable year must consist of dividends; interest; payments with respect to certain securities loans; gains from the sale or other disposition of stock, securities or
foreign currencies; other income (including, but not limited to, gains from options, futures or forward contracts) derived with respect to its business of investing in such stock, securities or currencies; and net income derived from interests in
“qualified publicly traded partnerships” (such income, “Qualifying RIC Income”) and (ii) the Fund’s holdings must be diversified so that, at the end of each quarter of such taxable year, (a) at least 50% of the
value of the Fund’s total assets is