[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 26, Volume 13]
[Revised as of April 1, 2004]
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[CITE: 26CFR]

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                       TITLE 26--INTERNAL REVENUE
 
    CHAPTER I--INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 
                               (CONTINUED)
 
Procedure and Administration--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  1.6038A-6  Failure to furnish information.

    (a) In general. The rules of Sec.  1.6038A-7 may be applied with 
respect to a transaction between a foreign related party and the 
reporting corporation (including any transaction engaged in by a 
partnership that is attributed to the reporting corporation under Sec.  
1.6038A-1(e)(2)) if a summons is issued to the reporting corporation to 
produce any

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records or testimony, either directly or as agent for such related 
party, to determine the correct treatment under title 1 of the Code of 
such a transaction between the reporting corporation and the related 
party; and if--
    (1)(i) The summons is not quashed in a proceeding, if any, begun 
under section 6038A(e)(4) and is not determined to be invalid in a 
proceeding, if any, begun under section 7604 to enforce such summons; 
and
    (ii) The reporting corporation does not substantially and timely 
comply with the summons, and the District Director has sent by certified 
or registered mail a notice under section 6038A(e)(2)(C) to the 
reporting corporation that it has not so complied; or
    (2) The reporting corporation fails to maintain or to cause another 
to maintain records as required by Sec.  1.6038A-3, and by reason of 
that failure, the summons is quashed in a proceeding under section 
6038A(e)(4) or in a proceeding begun under section 7604 to enforce the 
summons, or the reporting corporation is not able to provide the records 
requested in the summons.
    (b) Coordination with treaties. Where records of a related party are 
obtainable on a timely and efficient basis under information exchange 
procedures provided under a tax treaty or tax information exchange 
agreement (TIEA), the Service generally will make use of such procedures 
before issuing a summons. The absence or pendency of a treaty or TIEA 
request may not be asserted as grounds for refusing to comply with a 
summons or as a defense against the assertion of the noncompliance 
penalty adjustment under Sec.  1.6038A-7. For purposes of this 
paragraph, information is available on a timely and efficient basis if 
it can be obtained within 180 days of the request.
    (c) Enforcement proceeding not required. The District Director is 
not required to begin an enforcement proceeding to enforce the summons 
in order to apply the rules of Sec.  1.6038A-7.
    (d) De minimis failure. Where a reporting corporation's failure to 
comply with the requirement to furnish information under this section is 
de minimis, the District Director, in the exercise of discretion, may 
choose not to apply the noncompliance penalty. Thus, for example, in 
cases where a particular document or group of documents is not furnished 
upon request or summons, the District Director (in the District 
Director's sole discretion), may choose not to apply the noncompliance 
penalty if the District Director deems the document or documents not to 
have significant or sufficient value in the determination of the 
correctness of the tax treatment of the related party transaction.
    (e) Suspension of statute of limitations. If the reporting 
corporation brings an action under section 6038A(e)(4)(A) (proceeding to 
quash) or (e)(4)(B) (review of secretarial determination of 
noncompliance), the running of any period of limitation under section 
6501 (relating to assessment and collection of tax) or under section 
6531 (relating to criminal prosecutions) for the taxable year or years 
to which the summons that is the subject of such proceeding relates 
shall be suspended for the period during which such proceeding, and 
appeals therein, are pending. In no event shall any such period expire 
before the 90th day after the day on which there is a final 
determination in such proceeding.
    (f) Effective dates. For effective dates for this section, see Sec.  
1.6038A-1(n).

[T.D. 8353, 56 FR 28075, June 19, 1991]