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IRS Technical Memoranda

FILE-NAME: TM

COVERAGE: From July 1967 through June 2002

FREQUENCY: No longer published

UPDATE-SCHEDULE: No longer updated

CONTENT-SUMMARY:

IRS Technical Memoranda (TM file) are documents issued by the Internal Revenue Service which examine final regulations.

These documents are no longer published by the IRS.

PUBLISHER:
Internal Revenue Service

SEGMENT-DESCRIP:
CITEThe CITE segment contains the LEXIS cite of a document.
 CITE (2002 TM LEXIS 2)
  
DATEThe DATE segment contains the date of case.
 DATE=6/21/2002
  
REFERENCEThe REFERENCE segment contains the internal IRS number assigned to the document.
 REFERENCE (POSTF-118402-02)
  
TEXTThe TEXT segment contains the full-text of a document.
 TEXT (maritime security fleet)
  


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SAMPLE-DOC:


This document is not to be relied upon or otherwise cited as precedent by taxpayers.

Technical Memoranda

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE CAPITAL OF A CORPORATION

2002 TM LEXIS 2

June 21, 2002

[*1]  


REFERENCE: POSTF-118402-02/CC:PSI:B5

TEXT:

MEMORANDUM FOR ASSOCIATE INDUSTRY COUNSEL TO THE SHIPPING TECHNICAL ADVISOR CC:LM:HMT:PHI

FROM: ASSOCIATE CHIEF COUNSEL (PASSTHROUGHS AND SPECIAL INDUSTRIES) CC:PSI

This Chief Counsel Advice responds to your memorandum dated March 26, 2002. In accordance with I.R.C. § 6110(k)(3), this Chief Counsel Advice should not be cited as precedent.

LEGEND

Taxpayer:

Subsidiary:

Year 1:

Year 2:

ISSUE

Whether Taxpayer may exclude from income under § 118(a) cash payments it received from the Department of Transportation (DOT) under the Maritime Security Fleet Program.

CONCLUSION

Taxpayer may not exclude from income under § 118(a) cash payments it received from the DOT under the Maritime Security Fleet Program.

FACTS

Taxpayer through Subsidiary has contracted with the DOT under the Maritime Security Fleet Program. The operating agreements conform to the requirements of the Maritime Security Fleet Program statute described below.

Pursuant to the operating agreements, Taxpayer received cash payments in Year 1 and Year 2. Taxpayer did not include these cash payments on its income tax returns for Year 1 and Year 2. Taxpayer contends that the payments are excluded from income under § 118(a).

LAW  [*2]  AND ANALYSIS

Maritime Security Fleet Program

46 U.S.C. 1187(a) provides that the Secretary of Transportation shall establish a fleet of active, militarily useful, privately-owned vessels to meet national defense and other security requirements and maintain a United States presence in international commercial shipping. The Fleet must consist of privately owned, United States-flag vessels for which there are in effect operating agreements and shall be known as the Maritime Security Fleet.

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