New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 20 - DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE
Chapter I - Franchise and Certain Business Taxes
Subchapter A - Business Corporation Franchise Tax
Part 9 - SPECIAL ENTITIES
Subpart 9-5 - DOMESTIC INTERNATIONAL SALES CORPORATIONS (DISCs)
Section 9-5.4 - Rules for treatment of earnings and profits

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 12, March 20, 2024

(a) The earnings and profits of a DISC or of a former DISC are deemed to be divided into the following three categories:

(1) accumulated DISC income, which includes the earnings and profits of the corporation that have been deferred from taxation, as defined in 26 CFR 1.996-3(b);

(2) previously taxed income, which includes the earnings and profits of the DISC that have been previously taxed by reason of having been deemed distributed, as defined in 26 CFR 1.996-3 ( c); and

(3) other earnings and profits, which includes the earnings and profits of the DISC that were derived by the corporation in taxable years when it was not qualified as a DISC, as defined in 26 CFR 1.996-3 ( d).

(b) Any actual distribution to a stockholder that is made out of the earnings and profits of a DISC or a former DISC shall be treated as made in the following order:

(1) first, out of previously taxed income, as described in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of this section;

(2) second, out of accumulated DISC income, as described in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of this section; and

(3) third, out of other earnings and profits, as described in paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of this section.

(c) If for any taxable year a DISC, or a former DISC, incurs a deficit in earnings and profits, such deficit shall be charged in the following order:

(1) first, to other earnings and profits, as described in paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of this section;

(2) second, to accumulated DISC income, as described in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of this section; and

(3) third, to previously taxed income, as described in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of this section.

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