#### § 1.382-1T Table of contents (temporary).

This section lists the captions that appear in the regulations for § 1.382-2T.

## 1.382-2T Definition of ownership change under section 382, as amended by the Tax Reform Act of 1986 (temporary).

(a) Ownership change.

(1) In general.

(2) Events requiring a determination of whether an ownership change has occurred.

(i) Testing dates prior to November 5, 1992.

(ii) [Reserved]

(iii) Records to be maintained by loss corporation.

(b) Nomenclature and assumptions.

(c) Computing the amount of increases in percentage ownership.

(1) In general.

(2) Example.

(3) Related and unrelated increases in percentage stock ownership.

(4) Example.

(d) Testing period.

(1) In general.

(2) Effect of a prior ownership change.

(3) Commencement of the testing period.

(i) In general.

(ii) Exception for corporations with net unrealized built-in loss.

(4) Disregarding testing dates.

(5) Example.

(e) Owner shift and equity structure shift.

(1) Owner shift.

(i) Defined.

(ii) Transactions between persons who are not 5-percent shareholders disregarded.

(iii) Examples.

(2) Equity structure shift.

(i) Tax-free reorganizations.

(ii) Transactions designated under section 382(g)(3)(B) treated as equity structure shifts.

(iii) Overlap of owner shift and equity structure shift.

(iv) Examples.

(f) Definitions.

(1) Loss corporation.

(2) Old loss corporation.

(3) New loss corporation.

(4) Successor corporation.

(5) Predecessor corporation.

(6) Shift.

(7) Entity.

(8) Direct ownership interest.

(9) First tier entity.

(10) 5-percent owner.

(11) Public shareholder.

(12) Public owner.

(13) Public group.

(14) Higher tier entity.

(15) Indirect ownership interest.

(16) Highest tier entity.

(17) Next lower tier entity.

(18) Stock.

(i) In general.

(ii) Treating stock as not stock.

(iii) Treating interests not constituting stock as stock.

(iv) Stock of the loss corporation.

(19) Change date.

(20) Year.

(21) Old section 382.

(22) Pre-change loss.

(23) Unrelated.

(24) Percentage ownership interest.

(g) 5-percent shareholder.

(1) In general.

(2) Determination of whether a person is a 5-percent shareholder.

(3) Determination of the percentage stock ownership interest of a 5-percent shareholder.

(4) Examples.

(5) Stock ownership presumptions in connection with certain acquisitions and dispositions of loss corporation stock.

(i) In general.

(ii) Example.

(h) Constructive ownership of stock.

(1) In general.

(2) Attribution from corporations, partnerships, estates and trusts.

(i) In general.

(ii) Limitation on attribution from entities with respect to certain interests.

(iii) Limitation on attribution from certain entities.

(iv) Examples.

(3) Attribution to corporations, partnerships, estates and trusts.

(4) Option attribution.

(i) In general.

(ii) Examples.

(iii) Contingencies.

(iv) Series of options.

(v) Interests that are similar to options.

(vi) Actual exercise of options.

(A) In general.

(B) Actual exercise within 120 days of deemed exercise.

(vii) Effect of deemed exercise of options on the outstanding stock of the loss corporation.

(A) Right of obligation to issue stock.

(B) Right or obligation to acquire outstanding stock by the loss corporation.

(C) Effect on value of old loss corporation.

(viii) Options that lapse or are forfeited.

(ix) Option rule inapplicable if pre-change losses are de minimis.

(x) Options not subject to attribution

(A) Long-held options with respect to actively traded stock.

(B) Right to receive or obligation to issue a fixed dollar amount of value of stock upon maturity of certain debt.

(C) Right or obligation to redeem stock of the loss corporation.

(D) Options exercisable only upon death, disability or mental incompetency.

(E) Right to receive or obligation to issue stock as interest or dividends.

(F) Options outstanding following an ownership change.

(*1*) In general.

(*2*) Example.

(G) Right to acquire loss corporation stock pursuant to a default under loan agreement.

(H) Agreement to acquire or sell stock owned by certain shareholders upon retirement.

(I) [Reserved]

(J) Title 11 of similar case.

(K)-(Y) [Reserved]

(xi) Certain transfers of options disregarded.

(xii) Exercise of an option that has not been treated as stock.

(xiii) Effective date.

(5) Stock transferred under certain agreements.

(6) Family attribution.

(i) [Reserved]

(j) Aggregation and segregation rules.

(1) Aggregation of public shareholders and public owners into public groups.

(i) Public group.

(ii) Treatment of public group that is a 5-percent shareholder.

(iii) Presumption of no cross-ownership.

(iv) Identification of the public groups treated as 5-percent shareholders.

(A) Analysis of highest tier entities.

(B) Analysis of other higher tier entities and first tier entities.

(C) Aggregation of the public shareholders.

(v) Appropriate adjustments.

(vi) Examples.

(2) Segregation rules applicable to transactions involving the loss corporation.

(i) In general.

(ii) Direct public group.

(iii) Transactions to which segregation rules apply.

(A) In general.

(B) Certain equity structure shifts and transactions to which section 1032 applies.

(*1*) In general.

(*2*) Examples.

(C) Redemption-type transactions.

(*1*) In general.

(*2*) Examples.

(D) Acquisition of loss corporation stock as the result of the ownership of a right to acquire stock.

(*1*) In general.

(*2*) Example.

(E) Transactions identified in the Internal Revenue Bulletin.

(F) Issuance of rights to acquire loss corporation stock.

(*1*) In general.

(*2*) Example.

(iv) Combination of de minimis public groups.

(A) In general.

(B) Example.

(v) Multiple transactions.

(A) In general.

(B) Example.

(vi) Acquisitions made by either a 5-percent shareholder or the loss corporation following application of the segregation rules.

(3) Segregation rules applicable to transactions involving first tier entities or higher tier entities.

(i) Dispositions.

(ii) Example.

(iii) Other transactions affecting direct public groups of a first tier entity or higher tier entity.

(iv) Examples.

(v) Acquisitions made by a 5-percent shareholder, a higher tier entity, or a first tier entity following application of the segregation rules.

(k) Operating rules.

(1) Presumptions regarding stock ownership.

(i) Stock subject to regulation by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

(ii) Statements under penalties of perjury.

(2) Actual knowledge regarding stock ownership.

(3) Duty to inquire as to actual stock ownership in the loss corporation.

(4) Ownership interests structured to avoid the section 382 limitation.

(5) Example.

(6) First tier entity or higher tier entity that is a foreign corporation or entity. [Reserved]

(l) Changes in percentage ownership which are attributable to fluctuations in value. [Reserved]

(m) Effective date.

(1) In general.

(2) Plan of reorganization.

(3) Earliest commencement of the testing period.

(4) Transitional rules.

(i) Rules provided in paragraph (j) of this section for testing dates before September 4, 1987.

(ii) Example.

(iii) Rules provided in paragraph (j) of this section for testing dates on or after September 4, 1987.

(iv) Rules provided in paragraphs (f)(18)(ii) and (iii) of this section.

(v) Rules provided in paragraph (a)(2)(ii) of this section.

(vi) Rules provided in paragraph (h)(4) of this section.

(vii) Rules provided in paragraph (a)(2)(i) of this section.

(5) Bankruptcy proceedings.

(i) In general.

(ii) Example.

(6) Transactions of domestic building and loan associations.

(7) Transactions not subject to section 382.

(i) Application of old section 382.

(ii) Effect on testing period.

(iii) Termination of old section 382. [Reserved]

(8) Options issued or transferred before January 1, 1987.

(i) Options issued before May 6, 1986.

(ii) Options issued on or after May 6, 1986 and before September 18, 1986.

(iii) Options issued on or after September 18, 1986 and before January 1, 1987.

(9) Examples.

[T.D. 9487, 75 FR 33991, June 16, 2010]