Source: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2012-title26/html/USCODE-2012-title26-subtitleA-chap1-subchapD-partII-sec421.htm
Timestamp: 2019-04-21 06:26:28+00:00

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Subchapter D - Deferred Compensation, Etc.
(3) no amount other than the price paid under the option shall be considered as received by any of such corporations for the share so transferred.
(B) any transfer by the estate of stock acquired shall be considered a disposition of such stock for purposes of section 423(c).
(B) the last sentence of section 423(c) shall apply only to the extent that the amount includible in gross income under such section exceeds so much of the basis of the option as is attributable to such share.
Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 108–357, §905(a), added subsec. (d).
1990—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 101–508, §11801(c)(9)(B)(i)(I), substituted “422(a) or 423(a)” for “422(a), 422A(a), 423(a), or 424(a)” in introductory provisions.
Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 101–508, §11801(c)(9)(B)(i)(II), struck out “except as provided in section 422(c)(1),” before “no income”.
Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 101–508, §11801(c)(9)(B)(i)(III), substituted “424(a)” for “425(a)”.
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 101–508, §11801(c)(9)(B)(ii), substituted “422(a) or 423(a)” for “422(a), 422A(a), 423(a), or 424(a)” and “422(a)(1) or 423(a)(1),” for “422(a)(1), 422A(a)(1), 423(a)(1), or 424(a)(1),”.
Subsec. (c)(1)(A). Pub. L. 101–508, §11801(c)(9)(B)(iii)(I), substituted “422(a) and 423(a)” for “422(a), 422A(a), 423(a), and 424(a)”.
Subsec. (c)(1)(B). Pub. L. 101–508, §11801(c)(9)(B)(iii)(II), substituted “section 423(c)” for “sections 423(c) and 424(c)(1)”.
Subsec. (c)(2), (3)(A). Pub. L. 101–508, §11801(c)(9)(B)(iii)(III), substituted “423(c)” for “422(c)(1), 423(c), or 424(c)(1)” wherever appearing.
Subsec. (c)(3)(B). Pub. L. 101–508, §11801(c)(9)(B)(iii)(IV), (V), substituted “section 423(c)” for “sections 422(c)(1), 423(c), and 424(c)(1)” and “such section” for “such sections”.
1958—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 85–866, §25, inserted sentence authorizing substitution of “grantor corporation” or “corporation issuing or assuming a stock option in a transaction to which subsection (g) is applicable” for “employer corporation”.
Subsec. (d)(1)(A)(ii). Pub. L. 85–866, §26(a)(1), substituted “in the case of a variable price option” for “in case the purchase price of the stock under the option is fixed or determinable under a formula in which the only variable is the value of the stock at any time during a period of 6 months which includes the time the option is exercised” and inserted “fair” before “market value”.
Subsec. (d)(7). Pub. L. 85–866, §26(a)(2), added par. (7).
“(1) Except as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3), the amendments made by this section [enacting sections 422 to 425 and 6039, amending this section, sections 402, 691, 6652, 6678, and the analysis preceding sections 401 and 6031, and renumbering section 3039 as 3040 of this title] shall apply to taxable years ending after December 31, 1963.
“(2) The amendments made by paragraphs (1) and (3) of subsection (b) [enacting section 3039, renumbering former section 3039 as 3040, and amending section 6678 of this title] and paragraph (2) of section 6652(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 [formerly I.R.C. 1954] (as amended by paragraph (2) of subsection (b)), shall apply to stock transferred pursuant to options exercised on or after January 1, 1964.

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