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comply with all requirements of State unemployment compensation laws) to general agents of the Secretary of Commerce with respect to service performed on or after July 1, 1953, by officers and members of the crew on or in connection with American vessels— (1) owned by or bareboat chartered to the United States, and (2) whose business is conducted by such general agents. As to any such vessel, the State permitted to require contributions on account of such service shall be the State to which the general agent would make contributions if the vessel were operated for his own account. Such general agents are designated, for this purpose, instrumentalities of the United States not wholly owned by it and shall not be exempt from the tax imposed by section 3301. The permission granted by this subsection is subject to the same conditions and limitations as are imposed in subsection (f), except that clause (B) of the second sentence of subsection (b) shall apply. (h) REQUIREMENT BY STATE OF CONTRIBUTIONS.—Any State may, as to service performed on or after July 1, 1953, and on account of which contributions are made pursuant to subsection (g)— (1) require contributions from persons performing such service under its unemployment compensation law or temporary disability insurance law administered in connection therewith, and (2) require general agents of the Secretary of Commerce to make contributions under such temporary disability insurance law and to make such deductions from wages or remuneration as are required by such imemployment compensation or temporary disability insurance law. (i) GENERAL AGENT AS LEGAL ENTITY.—Each general agent of the Secretary of Commerce making contributions pursuant to subsection (g) or (h) shall, for purposes of such subsections, be considered a legal entity in his capacity as an instrumentality of the United States, separate and distinct from his identity as a person employing individuals on his own account. SEC. 3306. DEFINITIONS. (a) EMPLoYER.For purposes of this chapter, the term "employer" does not include any person unless on each of some 20 days during the taxable year, each day being in a different calendar week, the total number of uidividuals who were employed by him in employment for some portion of the day (whether or not at the same moment of time) was eight or more. (b) WAGES.—For purposes of this chapter, the term "wages" means all remuneration for employment, including the cash value of all remuneration paid in any medium other than cash; except that such term shall not include— (1) that part of the remuneration which, after remuneration (other thaa remuneration referred to in the succeeding paragraphs of this subsection) equal to $3,000 with respect to employment has been paid to an individual by an employer during any calendar year, is paid to such individual by such employer during such calendar year. If an employer (hereinafter referred to as successor employer) during any calendar year acquires substantially all the property used in a trade or business of another employer (hereinafter referred to as a predecessor), or used in a separate unit of a trade or business of a predecessor, and immediately after § 3306(b)(1)

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