Territorial Economic Recovery Act

Bill: 116-hr-6648
Sponsor: full_name: Del. Plaskett, Stacey E. [D-VI-At Large]
Introduced: 2020-05-01
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: American Samoa

Guam

Income tax exclusion

Northern Mariana Islands

Puerto Rico

Taxation of foreign income

U.S. territories and protectorates

Virgin Islands
Latest action: action_date: 2020-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-05-01
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Territorial Economic Recovery Act</b></p> <p>This bill restores the favorable tax treatment of investment in U.S. territories and possessions. It treats such investment as domestic rather than foreign investment and requires investors to have an active trade or business in a U.S. territory or possession with a certain percentage of income derived from such territory or possession. </p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 6648 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 1, 2020 Ms. Plaskett (for herself and Ms. Velázquez ) 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 exclude certain amounts from the tested income of controlled foreign corporations, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Territorial Economic Recovery Act . 2. Income of certain qualified possession corporations excluded from tested income (a) In general Section 951A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended— (1) in subsection (c)(2)(A)(i), by striking and at the end of subclause IV, by striking over and inserting and at the end of subclause (V), and by adding at the end the following new subclause: (VI) any income of a qualified possession corporation that is effectively connected with the active conduct of a trade or business within a possession of the United States, over ; and (2) by adding at the end the following new subsections: (g) Possession of the United States For purposes of this section, the term possession of the United States means Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and any specified possession described in section 931(c). (h) Qualified possession corporation For purposes of this section, the term qualified possession corporation means any controlled foreign corporation for any taxable year, if, for the three-year period (or the period during which the controlled foreign corporation has been in existence, if shorter) ending in the taxable year preceding the taxable year in which the determination is made— (1) 80 percent or more of the gross income of such corporation was derived from sources within a possession of the United States, and (2) 75 percent or more of the gross income of such corporation was effectively connected with the active conduct of a trade or business within a possession of the United States. . (b) Effective date The amendments made by this section shall apply with respect to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2019.