Title 26Internal Revenue CodeRelease 119-73

§1397F Regulations

Title 26 › Subtitle Subtitle A— - Income Taxes › Chapter CHAPTER 1— - NORMAL TAXES AND SURTAXES › Subchapter Subchapter U— - Designation and Treatment of Empowerment Zones, Enterprise Communities, and Rural Development Investment Areas › Part PART V— - REGULATIONS › § 1397F

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Requires the Secretary to make rules needed to carry out parts II and III. The rules must keep combined federal help from making an activity 100 percent or more paid by the Federal Government, stop people from misusing the programs, and deal with cases where an entity accidentally stops qualifying as an enterprise zone business.

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Title 26, §1397F

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The Secretary shall prescribe such regulations as may be necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes of parts II and III, including—
(1)regulations limiting the benefit of parts II and III in circumstances where such benefits, in combination with benefits provided under other Federal programs, would result in an activity being 100 percent or more subsidized by the Federal Government,
(2)regulations preventing abuse of the provisions of parts II and III, and
(3)regulations dealing with inadvertent failures of entities to be enterprise zone businesses.

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1998—Pub. L. 105–206 amended directory language of Pub. L. 105–34, § 226(a). See 1997 Amendment note below. 1997—Pub. L. 105–34, § 226(a), as amended by Pub. L. 105–206, renumbered section 1397D of this title as this section.

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Citation

26 U.S.C. § 1397F

Title 26Internal Revenue Code

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73