Base Offering Circular - Multifamily
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of the daily accruals of Trust REMIC income (excluding excess inclusion income) for all prior
quarters, decreased by any distributions made with respect to such Residual Security prior to the
beginning of such quarterly period. If the Residual Holder is an organization subject to the tax
on unrelated business income imposed by Code section 511, the Residual Holders excess
inclusion income will be treated as UBTI. In addition, under Treasury regulations yet to be
issued, if a REIT or a RIC owns a Residual Security that generates excess inclusion income, a
pro rata portion of the dividends paid by the REIT or the RIC generally will constitute excess
inclusion income for the shareholders. With respect to variable contracts (within the meaning of
section 817 of the Code), a life insurance company cannot adjust its reserve to the extent of any
excess inclusion, except as provided in regulations. Finally, for purposes of the AMT, excess
inclusion income cannot be offset by current losses or NOLs of a Residual Holder (although the
Holder does not have to include in AMT income preference items for which the Holder received
no benefit as a result of the foregoing restriction).
Non-Recognition of Certain Transfers for Federal Income Tax Purposes
In addition to the limitations specified above, the REMIC Regulations provide that the
transfer of a noneconomic residual interest to a United States person will be disregarded for tax
purposes unless no significant purpose of the transfer was to impede the assessment or collection
of tax. A Residual Security will constitute a noneconomic residual interest unless, at the time the
interest is transferred, (i) the present value of the expected future distributions with respect to the
Residual Security equals or exceeds the product of the present value of the anticipated excess
inclusion income and the highest corporate tax rate for the year in which the transfer occurs and
(ii) the transferor reasonably expects that the transferee will receive distributions from the Trust
REMIC in amounts sufficient to satisfy the taxes on excess inclusion income as they accrue. If a
transfer of a residual interest is disregarded, the transferor would continue to be treated as the
owner of the Residual Security and thus would continue to be subject to tax on its allocable
portion of the net income of the related Trust REMIC. A significant purpose to impede the
assessment or collection of tax exists if the transferor, at the time of the transfer, either knew or
should have known that the transferee would be unwilling or unable to pay taxes due on its share
of the taxable income of the REMIC (i.e., the transferor had improper knowledge). Under the
REMIC Regulations, a transferor is presumed not to have such improper knowledge if (i) the
transferor conducted, at the time of the transfer, a reasonable investigation of the financial
condition of the transferee and, as a result of the investigation, the transferor found that the
transferee had historically paid its debts as they came due and found no significant evidence to
indicate that the transferee would not continue to pay its debts as they come due and (ii) the
transferee represents to the transferor that it understands that, as the Holder of a noneconomic
residual interest, it may incur tax liabilities in excess of any cash flows generated by the interest
and that it intends to pay the taxes associated with holding the residual interest as they become
due.
Proposed Treasury regulations issued on February 4, 2000 (the New Proposed
Regulations) would modify the safe harbor discussed above which, if satisfied, provides that
transfers of noneconomic residual interests will not be disregarded for U.S. federal income tax
purposes. Under the New Proposed Regulations, a transfer of a noneconomic residual interest
will not qualify under this safe harbor unless the present value of the anticipated tax liabilities