Title 26 › Subtitle Subtitle A— Income Taxes › Chapter 1— NORMAL TAXES AND SURTAXES › Subchapter T— Cooperatives and Their Patrons › Part I— TAX TREATMENT OF COOPERATIVES › § 1383
When a cooperative takes a deduction for money it paid to buy back certain nonqualified notices or retain certificates, its tax for that year must be the smaller of two numbers. One number is the tax figured with the deduction. The other is the tax figured without the deduction minus any tax reductions in earlier years that would have happened if those items had been treated as qualified. If those earlier-year tax reductions are bigger than the tax figured without the deduction, the extra is treated as a tax payment on the last day you could legally pay that year's tax and is refunded or credited like an overpayment. The dollar amount used for the earlier-year math is the amount actually deductible for the year. If the second method is used to set the tax, the deduction can only be used for this rule and not for any other tax purposes.
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26 U.S.C. § 1383
Title 26 — Internal Revenue Code
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Apr 5, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60