Territorial Economic Recovery Act

Bill: 116-s-3940
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS]
Introduced: 2020-06-11
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: 2020-06-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-06-11
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
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: II 116th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 3940 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES June 11, 2020 Mr. Wicker introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance 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 at the end of subclause (V) and inserting and , 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 3-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 taxable years of foreign corporations beginning after December 31, 2019, and to taxable years of United States shareholders in which or with which such taxable years of foreign corporations end.