Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 111 Part 1.djvu/1101

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PUBLIC LAW 105-34—AUG. 5, 1997 111 STAT. 1077 For purposes of the preceding sentence, the term 'independent trustee' means any trustee who is not a member of the family (within the meaning of section 2032A(e)(2)) of the decedent or a 5-percent shareholder. A plan shall not fail to be treated as meeting the requirements of section 401(a) by reason of meeting the requirements of this subsection, "(4) QUALIFIED EMPLOYER SECURITIES. —For purposes of this section, the term 'qualified employer securities' means employer securities (as defined in section 409(1)) which are issued by a domestic corporation— "(A) which has no outstanding stock which is readily tradable on an established securities market, and "(B) which has only 1 class of stock. "(5) TREATMENT OF SECURITIES ALLOCATED BY EMPLOYEE STOCK OWNERSHIP PLAN TO PERSONS RELATED TO DECEDENT OR 5-PERCENT SHAREHOLDERS.— "(A) IN GENERAL.— If any portion of the assets of the plan attributable to securities acquired by the plan in a qualified gratuitous transfer are allocated to the account of— "(i) any person who is related to the decedent (within the meaning of section 267(b)) or a member of the decedent's family (within the meaning of section 2032A(e)(2)), or "(ii) any person who, at the time of such allocation or at any time during the 1-year period ending on the date of the acquisition of qualified employer securities by the plan, is a 5-percent shareholder of the employer maintaining the plan, the plan shall be treated as having distributed (at the time of such allocation) to such person or shareholder the amount so allocated. "(B) 5-PERCENT SHAREHOLDER. —For purposes of subparagraph (A), the term *5-percent shareholder' means any person who owns (directly or through the application of section 318(a)) more than 5 percent of the outstanding stock of the corporation which issued such qualified employer securities or of any corporation which is a member of the same controlled group of corporations (within the meaning of section 409(1)(4)) as such corporation. For purposes of the preceding sentence, section 318(a) shall be applied without regard to the exception in paragraph (2)(B)(i) thereof " (C) CROSS REFERENCE. — Tor excise tax on allocations described in subparagraph (A), see section 4979A. "(6) TAX ON FAILURE TO TRANSFER UNALLOCATED SECURITIES TO CHARITY ON TERMINATION OF PLAN. — If the requirements of paragraph (3)(F) are not met with respect to any securities, there is hereby imposed a tax on the employer maintaining the plan in an amount equal to the sum of— "(A) the amount of the increase in the tax which would be imposed by chapter 11 if such securities were not transferred as described in paragraph (1), and "(B) interest on such amount at the underpayment rate under section 6621 (and compounded daily) from the