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(c) APPLICABLE RULES. —

(1) The term "accumulated profits", when used in this section in reference to a foreign corporation, means the amount of its gains, profits, or income in excess of the income, war profits, and excess profits taxes imposed on or with respect to such profits or income; and the Secretary or his delegate shall have full power to determine from the accumulated profits of what year or years such dividends were paid, treating dividends paid in the first 60 days of any year as having been paid from the accumulated profits of the preceding year or years (unless to his satisfaction shown otherwise), and in other respects treating dividends as having been paid from the most recently accumulated gains, profits, or earnings. (2) In the case of a foreign corporation, the income, war profits, and excess profits taxes of which are determined on the basis of an accounting period of less than 1 year, the word "year" as used in this subsection shall be construed to mean such accounting period. (d)

SPECIAL RULES FOR CERTAIN WHOLLY-OWNED FOREIGN C O R -

PORATIONS.—For purposes of this subtitle, if— (1) a domestic corporation owns, directly or indirectly, 100 percent of all classes of outstanding stock of a foreign corporation engaged in manufacturing, production, or mining, (2) such domestic corporation receives property in the form of a royalty or compensation from such foreign corporation pursuant to any form of contractual arrangement under which the domestic corporation agrees to furnish services or property in consideration for the property so received, and (3) such contractual arrangement provides that the property so received by such domestic corporation shall be accepted by such domestic corporation in lieu of dividends and that such foreign corporation shall neither declare nor pay any dividends of any kind in any calendar year in which such property is paid to such domestic corporation by such foreign corporation, then the excess of the fair market value of such property so received by such domestic corporation over the cost to such doniestic corporation of the property and services so furnished by such domestic corporation shall be treated as a distribution by such foreign corporation to such domestic corporation, and for purposes of section 301, the amount of such distribution shall be such excess, in lieu of any amount otherwise determined under section 301 without regard to this subsection; and the basis of such property so received by such domestic corporation shall be the fair market value of such property, in lieu of the basis otherwise determined under section 301(d) without regard to this subsection. SEC. 903. CREDIT FOR TAXES IN LIEU OF INCOME, ETC., TAXES. For purposes of this subpart and of section 164(b), the term "income, war profits, and excess profits taxes" shall include a tax paid in lieu of a tax on income, war profits, or excess profits otherwise generally imposed by any foreign country or by any possession of the United States. SEC. 904. LIMITATION ON CREDIT. (a) LIMITATION.—The amount of the credit in respect of the tax paid or accrued to any country shall not exceed the same proportion § 904(a)

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