Corporate tax codes

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§61
Defines gross income broadly; includes income from many sources.

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TermDefinition
§61
Defines gross income broadly; includes income from many sources.
§1202
Provides potential gain exclusion for qualifying Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS).
§1221
Defines capital assets for federal income tax purposes.
§1244
Provides special ordinary-loss treatment for certain qualifying small-business stock.
§1361
Defines S corporations and contains basic eligibility and shareholder rules.
§1362
Governs S-corporation elections, revocations, and terminations.
§1363
Provides rules for how S corporations are taxed.
§1366
Determines how S-corporation income, deductions, gains, and losses pass through to shareholders.
§1367
Governs adjustments to a shareholder's basis in S-corporation stock.
§1368
Governs S-corporation distributions to shareholders.
§1369
Contains special rules relating to S corporations.
§1374
Imposes a corporate-level tax on certain built-in gains of S corporations.
§1375
Imposes a corporate-level tax on certain excess net passive income of S corporations.
§1501
Allows eligible corporations to file consolidated federal income tax returns.
§197
Provides rules for amortizing certain acquired intangible assets.
§199A
Provides a potential deduction for qualified business income from certain pass-through businesses.
§243
Provides the dividends-received deduction for certain dividends received by corporations.
§269
Limits tax benefits from certain acquisitions or reorganizations made primarily to obtain tax benefits.
§301
Governs the general federal income tax treatment of corporate distributions to shareholders.
§302
Governs the tax treatment of corporate stock redemptions.
§303
Provides special rules for certain stock redemptions used to pay death taxes and related estate expenses.
§304
Governs certain redemptions involving related corporations.
§305
Governs distributions of a corporation's own stock and determines when stock distributions are taxable.
§306
Contains special rules for certain preferred stock received in stock distributions.
§307
Determines shareholder basis in stock received through certain stock distributions.
§318
Provides stock ownership attribution rules.
§336
Governs the corporation's recognition of gain or loss when it distributes property in a complete liquidation.
§338
Allows certain qualifying stock acquisitions to be treated for tax purposes as asset acquisitions.
§351
Generally provides nonrecognition when property is transferred to a corporation solely in exchange for stock and the transferors have the required control immediately afterward.
§354
Generally provides nonrecognition for shareholders exchanging stock or securities in certain qualifying reorganizations.
§355
Provides rules for tax-free corporate divisions and certain spin-offs.
§356
Governs the treatment of cash or other property (boot) received in certain reorganizations.
§358
Determines a shareholder's basis in stock received in certain reorganizations.
§362
Determines the corporation's basis in property received in certain §351 transactions and reorganizations.
§362(e)(2)
Contains special rules limiting built-in losses when property with a built-in loss is transferred to a corporation.
§382
Limits a corporation's use of certain tax attributes, especially NOLs, after an ownership change.
§383
Limits the use of certain other tax attributes after an ownership change.
§384
Limits the use of certain built-in gains and losses following certain acquisitions.
§7701(o)
Codifies the federal economic substance doctrine and provides rules for determining when it applies.
§7704
Generally treats publicly traded partnerships as corporations for federal tax purposes unless an exception applies.
§1501
Provides the general rule allowing affiliated corporations to make a consolidated return election.