Subchapter M

Subchapter M

An IRS regulation dealing with investment companies and real estate investment trusts that avoid double taxation by distributing interest, dividends, and capital gains directly to shareholders, who are taxed individually.

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Subchapter M

The portion of the Internal Revenue Service Code that addresses the ways by which investment companies and investment trusts may pass income through to owners in order to avoid double taxation.

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Subchapter M

In American tax, an IRS regulation dealing with ways by which a publicly-traded company and its shareholders can avoid double taxation. Generally speaking, a publicly-traded company must pay corporate tax on its profits. If it paid taxes on its profits before passing along those profits to shareholders, the company's income is effectively taxed twice. Subchapter M allows these companies to deduct dividends and certain interest and capital gains paid to shareholders from its taxable income. See also: Conduit theory.