![]() The look-thru rule was first effective for tax years of CFCs beginning after December 31, 2005, and before January 1, 2009. By allowing US companies to reinvest their active foreign earnings where they are most needed without incurring the immediate additional tax that companies based in many other countries never incur, the Committee believes that the provision will enable US companies to make more sales overseas, and thus produce more goods in the United States” (HR Rep. The Committee believes that this provision will make US companies and US workers more competitive with respect to such countries. In proposing the look-thru rules, the House Ways and Means Committee said, “Most countries allow their companies to redeploy active foreign earnings with no additional tax burden. However, before 2006, when the look-thru rules were first enacted, FPHCI still included payments from a CFC in one country to a related CFC in another, even if the income was from an active business. Because payments between related parties located in the same country don’t shift income to another jurisdiction, such same-country payments were excluded from the definition of FPHCI. The Kennedy administration and Congress were concerned with tax haven deferral – the shifting of income earned in one country to a tax haven jurisdiction. The same country exception was originally enacted in 1962 as a part of the broader subpart F legislation. ![]() However, the FPHCI implications/treatment of rents/royalties are outside the scope of this Unit and will be covered in a separate Unit. Similarly, under this exception, FPHCI does not include rents and royalties received by a CFC from a related CFC for the use or privilege of using property within the same country as the recipient CFC’s country of incorporation. ![]() Under the same country exception, FPHCI does not include dividends and interest received by a CFC from a related CFC payor which is incorporated in the same country as the recipient CFC, and which has a substantial part of its assets used in its trade or business in that same country. Note, however, that the exception is not elective if the requirements are met, the income is not FPHCI.Īnother exception that looks to the payor of the income for eligibility requirements is the same country exception from FPHCI under IRC 954(c)(3). This exception allows US shareholders to “reinvest” active foreign earnings of one CFC in a related CFC without current taxation, as long as the underlying income of the payor CFC would not otherwise have been subject to current US taxation ( i.e., as subpart F income or ECI). The look-thru rule is found in IRC 954(c)(6), and is often referred to as the “954(c)(6) exception”, or simply “(c)(6)”. For example, under the FPHCI “look-thru” rule (not to be confused with the foreign tax credit (“FTC”) look-thru rules, which are beyond the scope of this Unit), FPHCI does not include dividends, interest, rents, and royalties if such income is received or accrued from a related CFC and the income is not attributable to subpart F income or income effectively connected with a US trade or business (“ECI”) of the related CFC. However, in the case of certain related party transactions, the exceptions from FPHCI focus on the payor of the income rather than the recipient. Consequently, many of the exceptions to current inclusion of FPHCI focus on the recipients of income ( i.e., whether the recipients meet certain criteria). The FPHCI rules eliminate the deferral of US tax on income earned by certain foreign corporations from portfolio types of investments, i.e., where the company is merely passively receiving investment income rather than earning active business income. One such type of income is Foreign Personal Holding Company Income (FPHCI), which includes income of a CFC such as dividends, interest, rents, and royalties. ![]() However, in the case of a controlled foreign corporation (“CFC”), certain types of income are subject to current inclusion (“subpart F inclusion”) by the US shareholder under IRC 951. Generally, the US shareholder of a foreign corporation is able to defer taxation of the corporation’s income until it has been distributed to the shareholder. This Practice Unit supersedes the Unit with the same title. This extension was part of the Taxpayer Certainty and Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2019. Note: This Unit was revised to include the extension of the IRC 954(c)(6) look through rule for CFCs with tax years beginning before January 1, 2021. Practice Units are not official pronouncements of law or directives and cannot be used, relied upon or cited as such. Practice Units provide IRS staff with explanations of general tax concepts, as well as information on specific types of transactions. The IRS Large Business and International (LB&I) has issued a new Practice Unit, Receipt of Dividends or Interest from a Related CFC.
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