Base Offering Circular - Multifamily
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be treated as ordinary income to the extent that the amount actually includible in income with
respect to the Security by the Holder during his holding period is less than the amount that would
have been includible in income if the yield on that Security during the holding period had been
110% of a specified U.S. Treasury borrowing rate as of the date that the Holder acquired the
Security. Although the relevant legislative history indicates that the portion of the gain from
disposition of a Regular Security that will be recharacterized as ordinary income is limited to the
amount of OID (if any) on the Security that was not previously includible in income, the
applicable Code provision contains no such limitation.
The Code contains provisions that require the recognition of gain upon the constructive
sale of an appreciated financial position. These provisions do not apply to Classes of
Certificates other than the Notional Classes. Investors in the Notional Classes should consult
their own tax advisors with respect to the possible application of these provisions.
Tax Treatment of Residual Securities
Overview
Residual Securities will represent residual interests in the Trust REMIC or Trust REMICs
to which they relate. A REMIC is an entity for federal income tax purposes consisting of a fixed
pool of mortgages or other mortgage-backed assets (including Ginnie Mae Multifamily
Certificates) in which investors hold multiple classes of interests. To be treated as a REMIC, the
Trust (or one or more segregated pools of Trust assets) must meet certain continuing
qualification requirements, and a REMIC election must be in effect. See REMIC
Qualification. A Trust REMIC generally will be treated as a pass-through entity for federal
income tax purposes, i.e., as not subject to entity-level tax. All interests in a Trust REMIC other
than the Residual Securities must be regular interests, i.e., Regular Securities or Pooling REMIC
Regular Interests (as defined below). As described in Tax Treatment of Regular Securities
above, a regular interest generally is an interest whose terms are analogous to those of a debt
instrument, and it generally is treated as such an instrument for federal income tax purposes. The
Regular Securities will generate interest and OID deductions for the Trust REMIC or, in the case
of a Double REMIC Series, the Issuing REMIC (as defined below). As a residual interest, a
Residual Security has a right to the income generated by the related Trust REMIC assets in
excess of the amount necessary to service the regular interests and pay such Trust REMICs
expenses. In a manner similar to that employed in the taxation of partnerships, Trust REMIC
taxable income or loss will be determined at the Trust REMIC level, but passed through to the
related Residual Holders. Thus, Trust REMIC taxable income or loss will be allocated pro rata
to such Residual Holders, and each Residual Holder will report his share of Trust REMIC taxable
income or loss on his own federal income tax return. Prospective investors in Residual
Securities should be aware that the obligation to account for the Trust REMICs income or loss
will continue until all of the Regular Securities have been retired, which may not occur until well
beyond the date on which the last payments, if any, on Residual Securities are made. In addition,
because of the way in which REMIC taxable income is calculated, a Residual Holder may
recognize phantom income (i.e., income recognized for tax purposes in excess of income as
determined under financial accounting or economic principles) which will be matched in later