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 56 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 619-OCT. 21, 1942 855 amount equal to the excess of the aggregate of such fair market value and the amounts of previous recoveries of money or property in respect of property considered under subsection (a) as destroyed or seized over the aggregate of the allowable deductions in prior taxable years on account of the destruction or seizure of property described in subsection (a), and increased by that portion of the amount of the recovery which under subsection (c) is treated as a recognized gain from the involuntary conversion of property. Upon application of the taxpayer, the aggregate of the bases (determined under the preceding sentence) of any properties recovered in respect of properties considered under subsection (a) as destroyed or seized may be allocated among the properties so recovered in such manner as the Commissioner may determine under regulations prescribed by him with the approval of the Secretary, and the amounts so allocated to any such property so recovered shall be the unadjusted basis of such property in lieu of the unadjusted basis of such property determined under the preceding sentence. " (e) PARTIAL WORTHLESSNESS OF CERTAIN INVESTMENTS IN DESTROYED OR SEIZED PROPERTY. "(1) DESTRUCrnoN OR SEIZURE OF INVESTMENT. - If a taxpayer owns not less than 50 per centum of each class of stock of a cor- poration, if such corporation has property described in subsection (a) (1) or (2) deemed to be destroyed or seized, the adjusted basis for determining loss of which is at least 75 per centum of the adjusted basis for determining loss of all such corporation's property, and if such corporation completely liquidates (by dis- tributing all the assets which it is able to distribute and all its rights to assets which it is not able to distribute, including the right to the recovery of the property described in subsection (a) (1) and (2)) within one year after such property is deemed to be destroyed or seized, or within six months after the date of the enactment of the Revenue Act of 1942, whichever is the later, then that part of the loss by the taxpayer on such liquidation which would be attributable to the destruction or seizure of such property, as established to the satisfaction of the Commissioner, shall be treated for the purposes of this chapter as a loss by the taxpayer upon the destruction or seizure of the part of the stock or other interest of the taxpayer to which such loss is allocable. Such part of the stock or other interest of the taxpayer shall be treated for the purposes of subsections (b), (c), and (d) as property described in subsection (a) (3). "(2) APPLICATION OF PA RARAP(1). -For the purposes of paragraph (1)- "(A) In determining the adjusted basis of all the property Item excluded. of the corporation, there shall be excluded money in the United States, bank deposits, the right to receive money from any person not situated in a country at war with the United States or in a territory under the control of such a country, and obligations issued or guaranteed as to principal or interest by the United States, except that there shall not be Exception. excluded any such property which is destroyed or seized as described in subsection (a) within or before the taxable period. "(B) The adjusted basis of property of such corporation Date. shall be determined as of the date immediately preceding the first date on which any property was destroyed or seized, as described in subsection (a), or as of any later date falling within or before the taxable period on the basis of which such determination will produce a greater amount.

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