-52- income, consisting of $374,000 from Chartered Representative fees, $8,900 from setup fees, and $53,500 from options. SSI's own fiscal 1981 subchapter S corporation tax return reported only $8,347 in gross income. We have found that SSI's undistributed taxable income for its fiscal 1981 was $108,238.39, and petitioners' 76-percent share of this is $82,261.18, which is taxable to petitioners for 1981. Supra C. SSI and Its Chartered Representatives. Under the law then in effect, the undistributed taxable income of a subchapter S corporation for a taxable year was required to be included in the gross incomes of those persons who were shareholders of the corporation on the last day of that taxable year of the corporation, in proportion to those shareholdings. Sec. 1373(b). In general, undistributed taxable income was taxable income minus dividends distributed. See 1373(c).27 Our findings take into account the distributions that SSI made to its shareholders in SSI's fiscal year ended July 31, 1981. These distributions reduce the amount of SSI's fiscal 1981 undistributed taxable income. The distributions made later in 27 These rules were substantially revised effective for taxable years beginning after Dec. 31, 1982. Secs. 2 and 6(a) of the Subchapter S Revision Act of 1982, Pub. L. 97-354, 96 Stat. 1669, 1697. The revisions (see especially secs. 1366-1368) do not apply to SSI's taxable years ending July 31, 1981, and 1982, and so do not affect the instant case.Page: Previous 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 Next
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