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altered or remodeled so as to increase its capacity for the storage of grain, or if any structure is converted, through alteration or remodeling, into a structure so described, and if such alteration or remodeling was completed after December 31, 1952, and on or before December 31, 1956, such alteration or remodeling shall be treated as the construction of a grain-storage facility. The term "grain-storage facility" shall include only property of a character which is subject to the allowance for depreciation provided in section 167, The term "grainstorage facility" shall not include any facility any part of which is an emergency facility within the meaning of section 168 of this title. (e)

DETERMINATION OF ADJUSTED B A S I S. —

(1) ORIGINAL OWNERS.—For purposes of subsection (a)(1)— (A) in determining the adjusted basis of any grain-storage facility, the construction, reconstruction, or erection of which was begun before January 1, 1953, there shall be included only so much of the amount of the adjusted basis (computed without regard to this subsection) as is properly attributable to such construction, reconstruction, or erection after December 31, 1952; and (B) in determining the adjusted basis of any facility which is a grain-storage facility within the meaning of the second sentence of subsection (d), there shall be included only so much of the amount otherwise included in such basis as is properly attributable to the alteration or remodeling. If any existing grain-storage facility as defined in the first sentence of subsection (d) is altered or remodeled as provided in the second sentence of subsection (d), the expenditures for such remodeling or alteration shall not be applied in adjustment of the basis of such existing facility but a separate basis shall be computed , in respect of such facility as if the part altered or remodeled were a new and separate grain-storage facility. (2) SUBSEQUENT OWNERS.—For purposes of subsection (a)(2), the adjusted basis of any grain-storage facility shall be whichever of the following amounts is the smaller: (A) The basis (unadjusted) of such facility for purposes of this section in the hands of the transferor, donor, or grantor, adjusted as if such facility in the hands of the taxpayer had a substituted basis within the meaning of section 1016(b), or (B) so much of the adjusted basis (for determining gain) of the facility in the hands of the taxpayer (as computed without regard to this subsection) as is properly attributable to construction, reconstruction, or erection after December 31, 1952. (f) DEPRECIATION DEDUCTION.—If the adjusted basis of the grainstorage facility (computed without regard to subsection (e)) exceeds the adjusted basis computed under subsection (e), the depreciation deduction provided by section 167 shall, despite the provisions of subsection (a)(3) of this section, be allowed with respect to such grainstorage facility as if the adjusted basis for the purpose of such deduction were an amount equal to the amount of such excess. (g) L I F E T E N A N T AND REMAINDERMAN.—In the case of property held by one person for life with remainder to another person, the amortization deduction provided in subsection (a) shall be computed as if the life tenant were the absolute owner of the property and shall be allowed to the life tenant. § 169(g) 49012°—54

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