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 redeems nonqualified written notices of allocation or nonqualified per-unit retain certificates and gets a deduction for those payments, its tax for the year is the lower of two amounts. The first is the tax computed with the deduction. The second is the tax computed without the deduction, minus the tax savings the cooperative would have had in earlier years if those notices or certificates had been treated as qualified from the start. If that earlier-year tax decrease is bigger than the current year's tax computed without the deduction, the extra is treated as a tax payment and refunded or credited like an overpayment. When the second method sets the tax, the deduction is ignored for all other tax purposes.
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26 U.S.C. § 1383
Title 26 — Internal Revenue Code
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Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73