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INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1954

(3) ATTRIBUTION OF OWNERSHIP.—Section 318 (relating to constructive ownership of stock) shall apply in determining the ownership of stock, except that section 318(a)(2)(C) shall be applied without regard to the 50 percent limitation contained therein. (4) DEFINITION OF PURCHASE.—For purposes of this subsection, the term "purchase" means the acquisition of stock, the basis of which is determined solely by reference to its cost to the holder thereof, in a transaction from a person or persons other than the person or persons the ownership of whose stock would be attributed to the holder by application of paragraph (3). (b) CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP AS THE R E S U L T OP A REORGANIZATION.—

(1) IN GENERAL.—If, in the case of a reorganization specified in paragraph (2) of section 381(a), the transferor corporation or the acquiring corporation— (A) has a net operating loss which is a net operating loss carryover to the first taxable year of the acquiring corporation ending after the date of transfer, and (B) the stockholders (immediately before the reorganization) of such corporation (hereinafter in this subsection referred to as the ''loss corporation"), as the result of owning stock of the loss corporation, own (immediately after the reorganization) less than 20 percent of the fair market value of the outstanding stock of the acquiring corporation, the total net operating loss carryover from prior taxable years of the loss corporation to the first taxable year of the acquiring corporation ending after the date of transfer shall be reduced by the percentage determined under paragraph (2). (2) REDUCTION OF NET OPERATING LOSS CARRYOVER.—The reduction applicable under paragraph (1) shall be the percentage determined by subtracting from 100 percent— (A) the percent of the fair market value of the outstanding stock of the acquiring corporation owned (immediately after the reorganization) by the stockholders (immediately before the reorganization) of the loss corporation, as the result of owning stock of the loss corporation, multiplied by (B) five. (3) EXCEPTION TO LIMITATION IN THIS SUBSECTION.^—The limitation in this subsection shall not apply if the transferor corporation and the acquiring corporation are owned substantially by the same persons in the same proportion. (4)

N E T OPERATING LOSS CARRYOVERS TO SUBSEQUENT YEARS.'—

In computing the net operating loss carryovers to taxable years subsequent to a taxable year in which there was a limitation applicable to a net operating loss carryover by operation of this subsection, the income in such taxable year, as computed under section 172 (b)(2), shall be increased by the amount of the reduction of the total net operating loss carryover determined under paragraph (2). (5) ATTRIBUTION OF OWNERSHIP.—If the transferor corporation or the acquiring corporation owns (immediately before the reorganization) any of the outstanding stock of the loss corporation, such transferor corporation or acquiring corporation shall, for purposes § 382(a)(3)

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