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          traps the excluded COD of an S corporation at the corporate level           
          in a mode similar to the corporate level rules of sections 1374             
          and 1375 regarding built-in gains and excess net passive income.            
               Petitioner argues that the only function of section                    
          108(d)(7)(A) is to determine the character of COD as excludable             
          or not at the corporate level and that it’s then passed through             
          to the shareholders under the general passthrough regime of                 
          subchapter S.  As has been observed, see Blanchard, “Debunking a            
          Shibboleth”, 58 Tax Notes 1673 (Mar. 22, 1993) (letter to                   
          editor), if petitioner’s passthrough interpretation were correct,           
          then section 1366(b) would come into play.  Section 1366(b)                 
          provides that the character of any item included under section              
          1366(a)(1) as a passthrough item is determined “as if such item             
          were realized directly from the source from which realized by the           
          corporation, or incurred in the same manner as incurred by the              
          corporation”.  Section 1366(b) refutes petitioner’s passthrough             
          interpretation of section 108(d)(7)(A).  There’s no way, actually           
          or fictively, in which the equivalence rule of section 1366(b)              
          could apply to a solvent shareholder of an insolvent S                      
          corporation.2                                                               

               2 It’s interesting but irrelevant that petitioner’s Form               
          1040 for 1991 includes a Form 982 (Reduction of Tax Attributes              
          Due to Discharge of Indebtedness (and Section 1082 Basis                    
          Adjustment)) that indicates petitioner was also insolvent and had           
          substantial COD unrelated to MAI that was applied in reduction of           
          his own NOL for the year and carryovers from prior years.  MAI              
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