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Corporations, 2000
Data Release
Background
IC-DISC provisions, set forth in the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984, provide limited incentives to small
U.S. exporters. To be an IC-DISC, a corporation
must be organized under the laws of a State or the
District of Columbia. Parent shareholders--generally,
other corporations, individuals, partnerships, trusts, or
estates--form an IC-DISC by filing Form 4876-A,
Election to be Treated as an Interest-Charge
DISC. This election is considered to be in effect as
long as the IC-DISC meets the following requirements: (1) at least 95 percent of the IC-DISCs total
receipts are qualified export receipts; and (2) at
least 95 percent of the adjusted basis of the ICDISCs total assets are qualified assets [2]. An
IC-DISC is also required to have only one class of
stock, conform its tax year to that of the principal
shareholder, and maintain separate books and
records. Additionally, an IC-DISC cannot be a
member of any controlled group of which a foreign
sales corporation (FSC) is a member [3]. For Tax
Year 2000, some 48 percent of IC-DISCs were
majority-owned by individuals, partnerships, trusts, or
estates; 42 percent were majority-owned by corporations; and the remaining 10 percent reported no
majority owner.
Certain types and amounts of IC-DISC income
are subject to tax deferral; the IC-DISC entity itself
This data release was written by Cynthia Belmonte, an
economist with the Special Studies Returns Analysis
Section, under the direction of Chris Carson, Chief.
IC-DISCReceipts,Income,andDistributions
For Tax Year 2000, IC-DISCs reported $1,439
million of gross income. Of this amount, $1,434
million (99.7 percent) were attributable to qualified
export receipts. Qualified export receipts can be
broken into two categories: receipts from the sale of
export property and other qualified export receipts,
which include payment for certain services provided
by the IC-DISC, as well as certain types of passive
income (e.g., qualified dividends, interest, and capital
gains). For Tax Year 2000, about $1,398 million
(97.4 percent) of qualified export receipts were from
the sale of export property. Most of these transactions involved direct foreign sales to unrelated
purchasers. The balance ($36 million) of qualified
export receipts was from other qualified export
receipts. Interest on producers loans accounted for
$18.7 million of this amount.
187
and is reported to shareholders on Schedule K, Shareholders Statement of IC-DISC Distributions. Accumulated tax-deferred IC-DISC income reported to
shareholders increased from $537 million for Tax Year
1996 to $741 million for Tax Year 2000 (Figure A).
DistributionofIC-DISCsbyProductorService
Group
Figure B presents distributions of active IC-DISCs
by principal product or service group for the past four
IC-DISC studies, spanning Tax Year 1987 through
Tax Year 2000. For Tax Year 2000, just over 91
percent of all active IC-DISC returns reported the
Figure A
Interest-Charge Domestic International Sales Corporations: Selected Items for Tax Years 1996 and 2000
[Money amounts are in thousands of dollars]
Current dollars
Constant dollars
Percentage
Item
1996
2000
change,
Percentage
1996
2000
1996-2000
(1)
188
(2)
(3)
change,
1996-2000
(4)
(5)
(6)
Number of returns..........................................................................................................................
773
727
Total assets..........................................................................................................................
909,628
1,128,995
-6.0
24.1
773
579,750
727
655,630
-6.0
13.1
Qualified assets..........................................................................................................................
896,013
1,122,250
Export property..........................................................................................................................
77,352
83,875
25.2
8.4
571,073
49,300
651,713
48,708
14.1
-1.2
125,648
835,474
811,891
-6.0
-13.0
-13.7
59.1
-9.9
14,521
650,189
21,053
533,963
45.0
-17.9
106,966
73,709
106,970
74,311
0.0
0.8
203,133
205,229
2,096
194,541
199,142
4,601
-4.2
-3.0
119.5
Taxable income..........................................................................................................................
320,841
341,731
6.5
204,488
Portion attributable to excess qualified export receipts..........................................................................................................................
146,400
163,495
11.7
93,308
198,450
94,945
-3.0
1.8
92,479
92,826
-11.2
-11.6
110,988
430,117
229,425
5.1
25.8
11.8
5.1
6.5
141.0
3.4
2,918,400
2,750,031
-5.8
IC-DISC's..........................................................................................................................
4,556,409
4,670,909
Related U.S. persons..........................................................................................................................
22,562
64,644
2.5
186.5
2,904,021
14,380
2,712,491
37,540
-6.6
161.1
Constant dollars were calculated using the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' consumer price index for urban consumers (CPI-U, 1982-84=100):
Year
CPI-U
2000
1996
172.2
156.9
188
Figure B
Interest-Charge Domestic International Sales Corporation Returns, by Major Product or Service,
Tax Years 1987, 1991, 1996, and 2000
Major product or service group
Number of returns
1987
(1)
1991
(2)
1996
(3)
2000
(4)
773
695
**
28
14
10
30
7
19
6
48
**
13
7
6
20
727
664
-18
22
10
58
12
16
5
53
5
5
3
7
16
65
123
125
63
44
**65
71
7
61
116
103
47
43
64
52
11
Tax Year 2000 reported chemicals and allied products as their principal export, these IC-DISCs were
responsible for 29 percent of total export gross receipts, 35 percent of taxable income, and 62 percent
of taxable income attributable to excess qualified
export receipts. Further, over half (53 percent) of
total deemed distributions and 29 percent of actual
distributions were accounted for by IC-DISCs in the
chemicals and allied products industry. The 7 percent of active IC-DISCs that reported the export of
nonmanufactured products and services were primarily concentrated in the agricultural industries, particularly fruit and tree nuts, and grains, including soybeans.
IC-DISC assets, receipts (including total export gross
receipts of IC-DISCs and related U.S. persons),
deductions, income, and distributions, classified by
product or service group, are presented in Table 1.
189
DatabySizeofTotalAssets
ExplanationofSelectedTerms
Figure C
190
Interest-Charge Domestic International Sales Corporations: Selected Items, by Size of Total Assets,
Tax Year 2000
[Money amounts are in thousands of dollars, and size of total assets is in whole dollars]
Item
All returns
Zero
$1,000,000
$5,000,000
under $1,000,000
under $5,000,000
under $10,000,000
Amount
Percent
Amount
of total
(1)
(2)
Amount
of total
(3)
(4)
Number of returns..........................................................................................................................
727
476
65.5
(5)
Percent
and over
Amount
of total
(6)
(7)
Percent
of total
(8)
(9)
191
26.3
38
5.2
22
3.0
442,264
39.2
262,919
23.3
293,328
26.0
nonqualified receipts..........................................................................................................................
1,438,686
260,140
18.1
547,685
Taxable income..........................................................................................................................
341,731
83,388
24.4
75,407
Portion attributable to excess qualified
38.1
22.1
252,586
45,294
17.6
13.3
378,276
137,642
26.3
40.3
export receipts..........................................................................................................................
163,495
17,605
10.8
15,802
Adjusted IC-DISC income subject to tax-
9.7
15,268
9.3
114,820
70.2
deferral computation..........................................................................................................................
159,248
61,725
38.8
52,848
33.2
Current-year tax-deferred income..........................................................................................................................
159,846
62,663
39.2
51,866
32.4
26,314
25,605
16.5
16.0
18,361
19,713
11.5
12.3
19,688
10.3
119,743
62.7
Total assets..........................................................................................................................
1,128,995
130,483
11.6
Total qualified export receipts and
186,642
25.2
148,499
20.0
37,691
9.5
111,128
28.1
551,085
11.6
1,496,192
31.6
190
Percent
$10,000,000
191
192
DataSourcesandLimitations
192
NotesandReferences
[1] For additional information about IC-DISCs for
Tax Year 1996, see Belmonte, Cynthia C.,
Interest-Charge Domestic International Sales
Corporations, 1996, Statistics of Income Bulletin, Fall 2000, Volume 20, Number 2, pp. 191-202.
193
Assets
Number
Major product or service
of
Total
returns
(1)
Export receipts
Qualified assets
Total
Total
and
receipts from
property
liabilities
nonqualified
sale of export
export
receipts
property
receipts
(7)
(8)
qualified
(5)
(6)
1,122,250
83,875
216,366
1,438,686
1,398,077
36,253
73,056
1,128
27,454
77,062
72,610
4,434
--
1,996
8,663
8,488
175
--
--
174
21
153
18,789
692
18,715
692
73
--
1,128,995
(3)
Computer software.................................................................................................................
4
14,205
14,205
--
10,318
2,518
2,506
12
2,069
3,242
--
3,229
42,187
1,325,136
793
31,763
52
513
1,611
20,026
19,941
302
1,345
11,836
11,800
-150
54
6,242
29
6,227
25
14
Meat products.................................................................................................................
5
4,338
4,338
116
1,894
1,885
2,553
-25,133
28,358
24,640
3,688
154
284
171
901
2,042
5,048
2,027
4,825
15
224
-26,205
21,267
17,788
3,448
451
9,956
9,848
109
73
378
1,433
8,523
1,374
8,474
61
49
194
Other
Export
(4)
(2)
118,749
113,986
4,016
--
970
12,957
10,972
1,758
1,636
6,320
68,475
37,317
67,019
35,995
1,112
1,146
--
180
12,356
12,319
37
Household furniture.................................................................................................................
5
3,716
3,716
--
174
4,904
4,867
37
5
18,389
7,452
76,719
7,452
76,454
-148
1,304
1,748
1,736
13
74,971
74,718
136
3,301
23,077
11,674
182,398
11,591
180,330
83
1,999
5,041
4,386
655
Printed media.................................................................................................................
5
8,426
8,426
1,232
Chemicals and allied products.................................................................................................................
53
101,395
101,253
4,077
Plastics materials, synthetic resins, synthetic rubber,
and synthetic fibers........................................................................................................................
10
6,848
6,763
Soap, detergents, and cleaning preparations, perfumes,
146
354
4,864
4,622
190
105,702
105,702
--
3,575
--
18,510
333
63,211
2,816
62,045
1,536
1,154
1,280
4,598
4,309
289
194
Assets
Number
Major product or service
of
Total
returns
(1)
Export receipts
Qualified assets
Total
(2)
(3)
Other
Export
Total
and
receipts from
property
liabilities
nonqualified
sale of export
export
receipts
property
receipts
(6)
(7)
(8)
(4)
(5)
qualified
Manufactured products--continued
Leather and leather products.................................................................................................................
3
5,712
5,712
-Stone, clay, glass, and concrete products.................................................................................................................
7
13,078
13,078
957
308
982
3,267
18,623
3,195
18,619
72
4
--
371
14,091
14,091
--
957
--
612
2,568
4,532
65,742
4,528
65,716
4
26
--
10
8,921
8,903
17
--
2,558
56,822
56,813
35,041
83,266
81,099
2,167
10,218
9,872
346
9,481
1,186
8
38
Glass products.................................................................................................................
4
11,628
11,628
Abrasive, asbestos, and miscellaneous nonmetallic
mineral products........................................................................................................................
4
1,450
1,450
Primary metal products.................................................................................................................
16
10,258
10,258
Iron and steel products.................................................................................................................
9
439
439
Miscellaneous primary and secondary nonfabricated
metal products........................................................................................................................
8
9,820
9,820
Fabricated metal products, other than ordnance, machinery,
Metal stampings.................................................................................................................
9
5,391
5,391
19
3,953
3,893
60
--
58,382
56,667
1,715
17,254
44
105,827
4,906
99,834
4,642
5,880
264
1,647
13,137
13,133
--
172
3,338
2,916
411
2,146
1,028
8,054
43,588
41,389
machinery.........................................................................................................
29
57,116
57,065
15,209
15,039
140
25,649
22,715
2,919
348,056
6,000
341,678
5,999
5,656
1
6,919
292
6,790
6,782
4,399
620
2,620
2,620
()
15,132
565
129,795
3,607
126,477
3,517
3,103
89
32,996
199,244
196,283
2,456
Transportation equipment.................................................................................................................
47
60,235
60,219
11,898
8,269
Motor vehicles and motor vehicle equipment.................................................................................................................
21
16,640
16,624
3,362
2,617
57,629
20,429
53,664
20,052
1,894
340
129,743
16,646
2,735
4,440
34,770
32,643
101
Leased aircraft.................................................................................................................
3
6,568
6,568
5,801
1,212
1,442
29
1,405
988
111,094
940
108,692
49
2,360
2,497
18
106,174
2,119
instruments.........................................................................................................
4
9
--
--
244
21
223
11,363
100,085
97,687
2,001
28,091
71,995
27,702
69,985
31
1,970
387
330
57
3,246
--
51
195
sales and
operations
Taxable income
other expenses
Export
Total
Portion
Total
Net income
Deficit
Total
promotion
excess qualified
expenses
(9)
export receipts
(10)
(11)
(12)
(13)
184,203
127,964
335,000
342,923
7,923
341,731
7,427
9,227
9,686
459
9,348
3,028
5,887
5,916
29
5,916
2,236
-292
44
337
44
--
---
1,744
692
740
--
474
Computer software.................................................................................................................
-2,219
2,216
(14)
(15)
(16)
163,495
299
299
--
299
--
--
69
--
--
24
7,437
652
332,138
52
160,467
1,005
2,263
2,284
21
2,284
527
527
--
527
--
28
--
-15
28
--
---
Meat products.................................................................................................................
6,177
5,132
1,011
1,729
1,729
1,005
7,999
8,370
371
8,363
38
738
1,216
782
1,216
44
--
782
1,216
---
6,046
6,373
327
6,366
38
1,483
()
1,483
--
1,129
354
-()
1,129
354
---
196
attributable to
21,351
94
8,417
8,417
()
8,417
--
7,956
4,978
-2
7,956
4,978
94
-5,805
7,845
7,845
--
7,845
Household furniture.................................................................................................................
3,749
762
762
393
393
--
393
--
7,452
3,793
-979
7,452
3,715
5,805
--
1,742
22
1,742
--
2,050
957
1,972
--
1,371
119,744
-1,318
1,371
119,484
-101,186
138
1,377
--
163
544
-97,539
Printed media.................................................................................................................
7,379
2,925
2,417
1,371
Chemicals and allied products.................................................................................................................
54,093
9,878
5,886
118,426
Plastics materials, synthetic resins, synthetic rubber,
and synthetic fibers........................................................................................................................
2,431
1,792
1,766
Soap, detergents, and cleaning preparations, perfumes,
641
804
101,509
--
101,509
70
54
--
15,999
856
947
--
15,999
856
3,647
--
404
--
285
--
196
sales and
operations
Taxable income
other expenses
Portion
Export
Total
Total
Net income
Deficit
Total
promotion
excess qualified
expenses
(9)
(10)
(11)
attributable to
export receipts
(12)
(13)
(14)
(15)
(16)
Manufactured products--continued
Leather and leather products.................................................................................................................
2,027
656
627
583
Stone, clay, glass, and concrete products.................................................................................................................
2,880
1,689
837
14,054
Glass products.................................................................................................................
-()
589
14,091
6
37
589
14,091
-10,246
()
14,091
14,091
--
14,091
10,246
mineral products........................................................................................................................
2,880
1,689
837
Primary metal products.................................................................................................................
52,129
4,136
2,501
-37
9,477
-9,487
37
10
-9,487
-5,291
6,519
6,519
--
6,519
4,287
2,958
2,968
10
2,968
1,004
15,326
512
15,208
6,807
1,684
--
1,679
--
---
536
1,221
334
--
157
170
246
76
246
--
11,639
435
11,526
6,473
30,034
2,985
2,014
--
30,034
2,985
1,409
697
937
263
937
--
2,702
--
2,702
--
674
11,990
42
11,990
678
machinery.........................................................................................................
26,029
5,611
4,449
101
4,225
34
1,608
7,195
--
1,667
--
35,519
1,153
10,629
--
11,948
1,501
1,501
()
1,472
--
1,934
1,086
1,934
1,934
16,539
368
275
1
16,403
368
5,128
--
14,189
304
14,189
3,567
Transportation equipment.................................................................................................................
42,391
6,257
4,175
8,982
9,308
Motor vehicles and motor vehicle equipment.................................................................................................................
15,469
1,266
713
3,694
3,731
326
37
9,284
3,731
---
21,875
13,884
3,448
3,737
289
3,713
--
Leased aircraft.................................................................................................................
34
()
1,408
1,408
--
1,408
--
-69
432
34,367
-16,064
--
2,513
2,513
--
31,611
16,064
244
244
--
244
--
16,601
105
16,522
1,893
-105
4,153
12,368
41
1,852
27
245
--
61
--
-69
40
218
245
197
Taxable income--continued
Adjusted IC-DISC
Major product or service
Tax-deferred
IC-DISC
Actual
amount
income
distributions
to tax-deferral
tax-deferred
deemed
reported to
to share-
computation
income
(17)
(18)
distributed shareholders
(19)
IC-DISC's
holders
(20)
(21)
U.S.
persons
(22)
(23)
(24)
159,846
191,121
740,662
395,070
4,735,553
4,670,909
64,644
5,278
33,647
14,157
344,159
344,159
--
2,406
6,220
9,435
195,379
195,379
--
--
2,852
45
21
21
--
1,736
--
57,171
17,300
57,171
17,300
---
3,374
--
19,699
19,699
--
616
3,227
3,227
--
51,363
4,391,064
51,363
4,326,420
-64,644
--
5,766
2,441
138,033
76,797
61,236
2,887
676
74,216
26,399
47,817
27
--
8,773
6,227
1,450
6,227
7,322
--
6,097
Meat products.................................................................................................................
491
523
1,738
48,817
42,720
2,715
42,527
1,748
78,973
78,973
--
771
9,704
839
72
10,060
4,825
10,060
4,825
---
32,051
837
64,089
64,089
--
7,903
1,112
33,383
33,383
--
795
317
17,623
15,760
17,623
15,760
---
198
Total
20,289
198,081
198,081
--
20,112
10,314
39,847
39,847
--
22,444
31,132
9,329
647
101,914
56,320
101,914
56,320
---
5,841
3,728
7,864
181,894
181,894
--
36
3,073
133
7,393
7,393
--
7,729
1,062
174,500
98,904
174,500
98,904
---
16,392
81
14,528
14,528
--
981
84,376
84,376
--
4,960
34,488
333
114,568
14,552
1,367,427
14,552
1,365,237
-2,190
309
19,146
16,956
2,190
--
5,535
54
13,106
13,106
4,293
99,332
1,138,882
1,138,882
--
3,560
3,560
--
14,873
865
192,732
1,997
192,732
1,997
---
163
6,523
6,523
--
198
Taxable income--continued
Tax-deferred
Adjusted IC-DISC
Major product or service
Total
IC-DISC
Actual
amount
income
distributions
to tax-deferral
tax-deferred
deemed
reported to
to share-
computation
income
(17)
(18)
distributed shareholders
(19)
(20)
IC-DISC's
holders
U.S.
persons
(21)
(22)
(23)
(24)
212
17,551
5,427
206,937
5,427
206,937
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Manufactured products--continued
Leather and leather products.................................................................................................................
589
555
35
4,644
Stone, clay, glass, and concrete products.................................................................................................................
3,842
3,845
10,246
11,187
Glass products.................................................................................................................
3,845
3,845
10,246
10,612
17,551
202,410
202,410
--
mineral products........................................................................................................................
-4
--Primary metal products.................................................................................................................
4,178
4,106
5,402
575
7,331
-10,816
4,528
137,263
4,528
137,263
---
177
10,816
80,450
80,450
--
7,154
--
56,813
56,813
--
62,329
4,041
274,229
273,926
303
2,408
22,352
22,352
--
9,481
17,725
9,481
17,725
---
1,077
4,704
105
12,601
12,601
--
62
1,058
212,069
211,766
303
112,066
4,496
21,642
2,904
364,555
36,205
364,555
36,205
---
2,395
1,334
19,563
19,563
--
1,347
21,069
21,069
--
11,224
7,088
127,307
127,307
--
801
2,311
91,564
91,564
--
6,660
68,848
68,848
--
564,753
19,040
564,753
19,040
---
43,767
4,491
--
26,980
26,980
--
1,937
71,744
71,744
--
14,304
--
177,727
3,517
177,727
3,517
---
5,671
265,746
265,746
--
5,267
2,346
119,320
57,472
118,405
57,472
916
--
9,053
5,495
82,711
Transportation equipment.................................................................................................................
8,754
8,069
1,215
44,608
Motor vehicles and motor vehicle equipment.................................................................................................................
3,521
2,954
777
11,950
Aircraft and parts.................................................................................................................
3,441
3,406
307
26,813
2,530
51,144
51,144
--
Leased aircraft.................................................................................................................
1,408
1,325
83
5,238
82
2,350
1,434
916
8,355
377,785
8,355
377,785
---
62,422
62,422
--
314,860
314,860
---
instruments.........................................................................................................
20
20
223
422
--
4,538
504
504
9,264
221,026
221,026
--
273
8,991
47,754
173,272
47,754
173,272
---
105,348
330
330
--
245
1,962
199