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111TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5328 

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce international tax 

avoidance and restore a level playing field for American businesses. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 18, 2010 

Mr. DOGGETT (for himself, Mr. MCDERMOTT, and Ms. DELAURO) introduced 

the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means 

A BILL 

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce 

international tax avoidance and restore a level playing 

field for American businesses. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘International Tax 

5 Competitiveness Act of 2010’’. 

6 SEC. 2. TREATMENT OF FOREIGN CORPORATIONS MAN7 AGED AND CONTROLLED IN THE UNITED 

8 STATES AS DOMESTIC CORPORATIONS. 

9 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 7701 of the Internal Rev10 enue Code of 1986 (relating to definitions) is amended by 


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1 redesignating subsection (p) as subsection (q) and by in2 serting after subsection (o) the following new subsection: 

3 ‘‘(p) CERTAIN CORPORATIONS MANAGED AND CON4 TROLLED IN THE UNITED STATES TREATED AS DOMES5 TIC FOR INCOME TAX.— 

6 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding subsection 

7 (a)(4), in the case of a corporation described in 

8 paragraph (2) if— 

9 ‘‘(A) the corporation would not otherwise 

10 be treated as a domestic corporation for pur11 poses of this title, but 

12 ‘‘(B) the management and control of the 

13 corporation occurs, directly or indirectly, pri14 marily within the United States, 

15 then, solely for purposes of chapter 1 (and any other 

16 provision of this title relating to chapter 1), the cor17 poration shall be treated as a domestic corporation. 

18 ‘‘(2) CORPORATION DESCRIBED.— 

19 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—A corporation is de20 scribed in this paragraph if— 

21 ‘‘(i) the stock of such corporation is 

22 regularly traded on an established securi23 ties market, or 

24 ‘‘(ii) the aggregate gross assets of 

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1 of), including assets under management 

2 for investors, whether held directly or indi3 rectly, at any time during the taxable year 

4 or any preceding taxable year is 

5 $50,000,000 or more. 

6 ‘‘(B) GENERAL EXCEPTION.—A corpora7 tion shall not be treated as described in this 

8 paragraph if— 

9 ‘‘(i) such corporation was treated as a 

10 corporation described in this paragraph in 

11 a preceding taxable year, 

12 ‘‘(ii) such corporation— 

13 ‘‘(I) is not regularly traded on an 

14 established securities market, and 

15 ‘‘(II) has, and is reasonably ex16 pected to continue to have, aggregate 

17 gross assets (including assets under 

18 management for investors, whether 

19 held directly or indirectly) of less than 

20 $50,000,000, and 

21 ‘‘(iii) the Secretary grants a waiver to 

22 such corporation under this subparagraph. 

23 ‘‘(C) EXCEPTION FROM GROSS ASSETS

24 TEST.—Subparagraph (A)(ii) shall not apply to 

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1 poration (as defined in section 957) and which 

2 is a member of an affiliated group (as defined 

3 section 1504, but determined without regard to 

4 section 1504(b)(3)) the common parent of 

5 which— 

6 ‘‘(i) is a domestic corporation (deter7 mined without regard to this subsection), 

8 and 

9 ‘‘(ii) has substantial assets (other 

10 than cash and cash equivalents and other 

11 than stock of foreign subsidiaries) held for 

12 use in the active conduct of a trade or 

13 business in the United States. 

14 ‘‘(3) MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL.— 

15 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall 

16 prescribe regulations for purposes of deter17 mining cases in which the management and 

18 control of a corporation is to be treated as oc19 curring primarily within the United States. 

20 ‘‘(B) EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND SENIOR

21 MANAGEMENT.—Such regulations shall provide 

22 that— 

23 ‘‘(i) the management and control of a 

24 corporation shall be treated as occurring 

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1 stantially all of the executive officers and 

2 senior management of the corporation who 

3 exercise day-to-day responsibility for mak4 ing decisions involving strategic, financial, 

5 and operational policies of the corporation 

6 are located primarily within the United 

7 States, and 

8 ‘‘(ii) individuals who are not executive 

9 officers and senior management of the cor10 poration (including individuals who are of11 ficers or employees of other corporations in 

12 the same chain of corporations as the cor13 poration) shall be treated as executive offi14 cers and senior management if such indi15 viduals exercise the day-to-day responsibil16 ities of the corporation described in clause 

17 (i). 

18 ‘‘(C) CORPORATIONS PRIMARILY HOLDING

19 INVESTMENT ASSETS.—Such regulations shall 

20 also provide that the management and control 

21 of a corporation shall be treated as occurring 

22 primarily within the United States if— 

23 ‘‘(i) the assets of such corporation (di24 rectly or indirectly) consist primarily of as 


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1 sets being managed on behalf of investors, 

2 and 

3 ‘‘(ii) decisions about how to invest the 

4 assets are made in the United States.’’. 

5 (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 

6 this section shall apply to taxable years beginning on or 

7 after the date which is 2 years after the date of the enact8 ment of this Act. 

9 SEC. 3. CURRENT TAXATION OF ROYALTIES AND OTHER IN10 COME FROM INTANGIBLES RECEIVED FROM 

11 A CONTROLLED FOREIGN CORPORATION. 

12 (a) REPEAL OF LOOK-THRU RULE FOR ROYALTIES

13 RECEIVED FROM CONTROLLED FOREIGN CORPORA14 TIONS.—Paragraph (6) of section 954(c) of the Internal 

15 Revenue Code of 1986 is amended— 

16 (1) by striking ‘‘rents, and royalties’’ in sub17 paragraph (A) and inserting ‘‘and rents’’, and 

18 (2) by striking ‘‘, rent, or royalty’’ both places 

19 it appears in subparagraph (B) and inserting ‘‘or 

20 rent’’. 

21 (b) ENTITIES NOT PERMITTED TO BE DIS22 REGARDED IN DETERMINING ROYALTIES.—Subsection (c) 

23 of section 954 of such Code is amended by adding at the 

24 end the following new paragraph: 


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1 ‘‘(7) ALL ROYALTIES TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT.— 

2 For purposes of determining the foreign personal 

3 holding company income which consists of royalties, 

4 this subsection shall be applied without regard to 

5 any election to disregard any entity which would be 

6 taken into account for Federal income tax purposes 

7 but for such election.’’. 

8 (c) CERTAIN OTHER INCOME DERIVED FROM

9 UNITED STATES INTANGIBLES TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT AS

10 SUBPART F INCOME.—Subsection (d) of section 954 of 

11 such Code is amended by adding at the end the following 

12 new paragraph: 

13 ‘‘(5) SPECIAL RULE FOR CERTAIN PRODUCTS

14 PRODUCED PURSUANT TO INTANGIBLES MADE

15 AVAILABLE BY UNITED STATES PERSONS.—For pur16 poses of this subsection, personal property shall be 

17 treated as having been purchased from a related per18 son if any intangible property (within the meaning 

19 of section 936(h)(3)(B)) made available to a con20 trolled foreign corporation, directly or indirectly, by 

21 a related person which is a United States person 

22 contributes, directly or indirectly, to the production 

23 of such personal property by the controlled foreign 

24 corporation. The preceding sentence shall not apply 

25 to any personal property produced directly by the 


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1 controlled foreign corporation, without regard to any 

2 election to disregard any entity which would be 

3 taken into account for Federal income tax purposes 

4 but for such election.’’. 

5 (d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 

6 this section shall apply to taxable years of foreign corpora7 tions beginning after December 31, 2010, and to taxable 

8 years of United States shareholders within which or with 

9 which such tax years of such foreign corporations end. 

10 SEC. 4. REPEAL OF SPECIAL RULES FOR INTEREST AND 

11 DIVIDENDS RECEIVED FROM PERSONS MEET12 ING THE 80-PERCENT FOREIGN BUSINESS RE13 QUIREMENTS. 

14 (a) REPEAL OF SPECIAL RULES FOR INTEREST AS

15 UNITED STATES SOURCE.—Paragraph (1) of section 

16 861(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended 

17 by striking subparagraph (A) and by redesignating sub18 paragraphs (B) and (C) as subparagraphs (A) and (B), 

19 respectively. 

20 (b) REPEAL OF EXCEPTION TO TAX ON DIVIDENDS

21 RECEIVED BY NONRESIDENT ALIENS AND FOREIGN COR22 PORATIONS.—Paragraph (2) of section 871(i) of such 

23 Code is amended by striking subparagraph (B) and by re24 designating subparagraphs (C) and (D) as subparagraphs 

25 (B) and (C), respectively. 


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1 (c) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— 

2 (1) Section 861 of such Code is amended by 

3 striking subsection (c) and by redesignating sub4 sections (d), (e), and (f) as subsections (c), (d), and 

5 (e), respectively. 

6 (2) Paragraph (9) of section 904(h) of such 

7 Code is amended to read as follows: 

8 ‘‘(9) TREATMENT OF CERTAIN DOMESTIC COR9 PORATIONS.—In the case of any dividend treated as 

10 not from sources with the United States under sec11 tion 861(a)(2)(A), the corporation paying such divi12 dend shall be treated for purposes of this subsection 

13 as a United States-owned foreign corporation.’’. 

14 (3) Subsection (c) of section 2104 of such Code 

15 is amended in the last sentence by striking ‘‘or to 

16 a debt obligation of a domestic corporation’’ and all 

17 that follows and inserting a period. 

18 (d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 

19 this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after 

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1 SEC. 5. TAXATION OF BOOT RECEIVED IN CERTAIN REOR2 GANIZATIONS INVOLVING FOREIGN COR3 PORATIONS. 

4 (a) IN GENERAL.—Paragraph (2) of section 356(a) 

5 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended to read 

6 as follows: 

7 ‘‘(2) TREATMENT AS DIVIDEND.— 

8 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The sum of such 

9 money and the fair market value of such other 

10 property received by the taxpayer in the ex11 change shall be treated as a dividend to the ex12 tent it would be so treated if such money and 

13 other property had been distributed to the tax14 payer by the corporation immediately after the 

15 exchange in redemption of stock having a fair 

16 market value equal to the amount of such sum. 

17 ‘‘(B) COORDINATION WITH PARAGRAPH

18 (1).—Gain shall be recognized under paragraph 

19 (1) only to the extent the amount which would 

20 be recognized under such paragraph without re21 gard to this paragraph exceeds the amount 

22 treated as a dividend under subparagraph (A). 

23 ‘‘(C) REGULATIONS.—The Secretary shall 

24 prescribe such regulations as may be necessary 

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1 cluding regulations to address interactions be2 tween this subchapter and subchapter N.’’. 

3 (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by 

4 this section shall apply to exchanges after December 31, 

5 2010. 

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