Section 1.902-0 - Outline of regulations provisions for section 902This section lists the provisions under section 902.
§ 1.902-1 Credit for domestic corporate shareholder of a foreign corporation for foreign income taxes paid by the foreign corporation.(a) Definitions and special effective date.(1) Domestic shareholder.(2) First-tier corporation.(3) Second-tier corporation.(4) Third- or lower-tier corporation.(i) Third-tier corporation.(ii) Fourth-, fifth-, or sixth-tier corporation.(6) Upper- and lower-tier corporations.(7) Foreign income taxes.(8) Post-1986 foreign income taxes.(ii) Distributions out of earnings and profits accumulated by a lower-tier corporation in its taxable years beginning before January 1, 1987, and included in the gross income of an upper-tier corporation in its taxable year beginning after December 31, 1986.(iii) Foreign income taxes paid or accrued with respect to high withholding tax interest.(9) Post-1986 undistributed earnings. (ii) Distributions out of earnings and profits accumulated by a lower-tier corporation in its taxable years beginning before January 1, 1987, and included in the gross income of an upper-tier corporation in its taxable year beginning after December 31, 1986.(iii) Reduction for foreign income taxes paid or accrued.(iv) Special allocations.(10) Pre-1987 accumulated profits.(ii) Computation of pre-1987 accumulated profits.(iii) Foreign income taxes attributable to pre-1987 accumulated profits.(13) Special effective date. (b) Computation of foreign income taxes deemed paid by a domestic shareholder, first-tier corporation, or lower-tier corporation.(2) Allocation rule for dividends attributable to post-1986 undistributed earnings and pre-1987 accumulated profits.(i) Portion of dividend out of post-1986 undistributed earnings.(ii) Portion of dividend out of pre-1987 accumulated profits.(3) Dividends paid out of pre-1987 accumulated profits.(4) Deficits in accumulated earnings and profits.(c) Special rules. (1) Separate computations required for dividends from each first-tier and lower-tier corporation. (2) Section 78 gross-up. (i) Foreign income taxes deemed paid by a domestic shareholder.(ii) Foreign income taxes deemed paid by an upper-tier corporation.(3) Creditable foreign income taxes.(4) Foreign mineral income.(5) Foreign taxes paid or accrued in connection with the purchase or sale of certain oil and gas.(6) Foreign oil and gas extraction income.(7) United States shareholders of controlled foreign corporations.(8) Effect of certain liquidations, reorganizations, or similar transactions on certain foreign taxes paid or accrued in taxable years beginning on or before August 5, 1997. (d) Dividends from controlled foreign corporations and noncontrolled section 902 corporations. (2) Look-through. (ii) Coordination with section 960.(e) Information to be furnished.§ 1.902-2 Treatment of deficits in post-1986 undistributed earnings and pre-1987 accumulated profits of a first- or lower-tier corporation for purposes of computing an amount of foreign taxes deemed paid under § 1.902-1 . (a) Carryback of deficits in post-1986 undistributed earnings of a first- or lower-tier corporation to pre-effective date taxable years. (b) Carryforward of deficit in pre-1987 accumulated profits of a first- or lower-tier corporation to post-1986 undistributed earnings for purposes of section 902. (2) Effect of pre-effective date deficit.§ 1.902-3 Credit for domestic corporate shareholder of a foreign corporation for foreign income taxes paid with respect to accumulated profits of taxable years of the foreign corporation beginning before January 1, 1987. (a) Definitions. (1) Domestic shareholder.(2) First-tier corporation.(3) Second-tier corporation.(4) Third-tier corporation.(5) Foreign income taxes.(b) Domestic shareholder owning stock in a first-tier corporation.(2) Amount of foreign taxes deemed paid by a domestic shareholder.(c) First-tier corporation owning stock in a second-tier corporation.(2) Amount of foreign taxes deemed paid by a first-tier corporation.(d) Second-tier corporation owning stock in a third-tier corporation.(2) Amount of foreign taxes deemed paid by a second-tier corporation.(e) Determination of accumulated profits of a foreign corporation.(f) Taxes paid on or with respect to accumulated profits of a foreign corporation.(g) Determination of earnings and profits of a foreign corporation.(1) Taxable year to which section 963 does not apply.(2) Taxable year to which section 963 applies.(3) Time and manner of making choice.(4) Determination by district director.(h) Source of income from first-tier corporation and country to which tax is deemed paid.(2) Country to which taxes deemed paid.(i) United Kingdom income taxes paid with respect to royalties.(j) Information to be furnished.§ 1.902-4 Rules for distributions attributable to accumulated profits for taxable years in which a first-tier corporation was a less developed country corporation. (b) Combined distributions.(c) Distributions of a first-tier corporation attributable to certain distributions from second- or third-tier corporations.T.D. 8708, 62 FR 927, Jan. 7, 1997, as amended by T.D. 9260, Apr. 25, 2006