[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 26, Volume 18]
[Revised as of April 1, 2004]
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[CITE: 26CFR301.9100-17T]

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                       TITLE 26--INTERNAL REVENUE
 
    CHAPTER I--INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 
                               (CONTINUED)
 
PART 301_PROCEDURE AND ADMINISTRATION--Table of Contents
 
                              General Rules
 
Sec. 301.9100-17T  Procedure applicable to certain elections.

    (a) Elections covered by temporary rules. The sections of the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1954, or of the Tax Reform Act of 1969, to 
which paragraph (b) of this section applies and under which an election 
or notification may be made pursuant to the procedures prescribed in 
such paragraph are as follows:

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                 Section                         Description of election            Availability of election
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(1) First category:
  231(d)(2) of Act.......................  Moving expenses...................  Expenses paid or incurred before
                                                                                July 1, 1970, if employee was
                                                                                notified of move by employer on
                                                                                or before Dec. 19, 1969.
  503(c)(2) of Act.......................  Carved-out mineral production       All mineral production payments
                                            payments.                           carved out of mineral properties
                                                                                after beginning of last taxable
                                                                                year ending before Aug. 7, 1969.
  516(d)(3) of Act.......................  Contingent payments by transferee   Payments made in taxable years
                                            of franchise, trademark, or trade   ending after Dec. 31, 1969, and
                                            name.                               beginning before Jan. 1, 1980,
                                                                                on transfers made before Jan. 1,
                                                                                1970.
  642(c)(1) of Code......................  Charitable contributions of         Amounts paid in any taxable year
                                            estates or trusts paid in           beginning after Dec. 31, 1969.
                                            following year.
  1251(b)(4) of Code.....................  No additions to excess deductions   Any taxable year beginning after
                                            account of taxpayers electing to    Dec. 31, 1969.
                                            compute taxable income from
                                            farming in certain manner.
(2) Second category:
  184(b) of Code.........................  Amortization of qualified railroad  Any taxable year beginning after
                                            rolling stock.                      Dec. 31, 1969, in which rolling
                                                                                stock was placed in service (or
                                                                                succeeding taxable year).
(3) Third category:
  504(d)(2) of Act.......................  Notification not to have Sec.      Exploration expenditures paid or
                                            615(e) election treated as a Sec.  incurred after Dec. 31, 1969.
                                            617(a) election.
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    (b) Manner of making election or serving notice--(1) In general. (i) 
Except as provided in subparagraph (2) of this paragraph, a taxpayer may 
make an election under any section referred to in paragraph (a) (1) or 
(2) of this section for the first taxable year for which the election is 
required to be made or for the taxable year selected by the taxpayer 
when the choice of a taxable year is optional. The election must be made 
not later than (a) the time, including extensions thereof, prescribed by 
law for filing the income tax return for such taxable year or (b) 90 
days after the date on which the regulations in this section are filed 
with the Office of the Federal Register, whichever is later.

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    (ii) The election shall be made by a statement attached to the 
return (or an amended return) for the taxable year, indicating the 
section under which the election is being made and setting forth 
information to identify the election, the period for which it applies, 
and the facility, property, or amounts to which it applies.
    (2) Additional time for certain elections. An election under section 
503(c)(2) of the Act or section 642(c)(1) of the Code must be made in 
accordance with subparagraph (1) of this paragraph but not later than 
(i) the time, including extensions thereof, prescribed by law for filing 
the income tax return for the taxable year following the taxable year 
for which the election is made or (ii) 90 days after the date on which 
the regulations in this section are filed with the Office of the Federal 
Register, whichever is later.
    (3) Notification as to section 615(e) election. (i) The notification 
referred to in paragraph (a)(3) of this section in respect of an 
election under section 615(e) which was made before the date on which 
the regulations in this section are filed with the Office of the Federal 
Register shall be made in a statement attached to the taxpayer's income 
tax return for the first taxable year in which expenditures are paid or 
incurred after December 31, 1969, which would be deductible by the 
taxpayer under section 617 if he so elects. The statement shall indicate 
the first taxable year for which such election was effective and the 
district director, or the director of the regional service center, with 
whom the election was filed.
    (ii) The notification referred to in paragraph (a)(3) of this 
section, in respect of an election under section 615(e) which is made on 
or after the date on which the regulations in this section are filed 
with the Office of the Federal Register, shall be made in the statement 
of election required by paragraph (a)(2) of Sec. 15.1-1 of this chapter 
(Temporary Income Tax Regulations Relating to Exploration Expenditures 
in the Case of Mining).
    (iii) The serving of notice pursuant to this subparagraph shall not 
preclude the subsequent making of an election under section 617(a). A 
failure to serve notice pursuant to this subparagraph shall be treated 
as an election under section 617(a) and paragraph (a)(1) of Sec. 15.1-1 
of this chapter with respect to exploration expenditures paid or 
incurred after December 31, 1969, whether or not the taxpayer 
subsequently revokes his election under section 615(e) with respect to 
exploration expenditures paid or incurred before January 1, 1970.
    (iv) For rules relating to the revocation of an election under 
section 615(e), including such an election which is treated pursuant to 
this subparagraph as an election under section 617(a), see paragraph (a) 
of Sec. 15.1-2 of this chapter (T.D. 6907, C.B. 1967-1, 531, 535).
    (c) Effect of election--(1) Revocations--(i) Consent to revoke 
required. Except as provided in subdivision (ii) of this subparagraph, 
an election made in accordance with paragraph (b)(1) of this section 
shall be binding unless consent to revoke the election is obtained from 
the Commissioner. An application for consent to revoke the election will 
not be accepted before the promulgation of the permanent regulations 
relating to the section of the Code or Act under which the election is 
made. Such regulations will provide a reasonable period of time within 
which taxpayers will be permitted to apply for consent to revoke the 
election.
    (ii) Revocation without consent. An election made in accordance with 
paragraph (b)(1) of this section may be revoked without the consent of 
the Commissioner not later than 90 days after the permanent regulations 
relating to the section of the Code or Act under which the election is 
made are filed with the Office of the Federal Register, provided such 
regulations grant taxpayers blanket permission to revoke that election 
within such time without the consent of the Commissioner. Such blanket 
permission to revoke an election will be provided by the permanent 
regulations in the event of a determination by the Secretary or his 
delegate that such regulations contain provisions that may not 
reasonably have been anticipated by taxpayers at the time of making such 
election.
    (iii) Election treated as tentative. Until the expiration of the 
reasonable period referred to in subdivision (i) of this

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subparagraph or the 90-day period referred to in subdivision (ii) of 
this subparagraph, an election under section 433(d)(2) of the Act will 
be considered a tentative election, subject to revocation under the 
provisions of such subdivisions.
    (iv) Place for filing revocations. A revocation under subdivision 
(i) or (ii) of this subparagraph shall be made by filing a statement to 
that effect with the district director, or the director of the regional 
service center, with whom the election was filed.
    (2) Termination without consent. An election which is made in 
accordance with paragraph (b)(1) of this section under a section 
referred to in paragraph (a)(2) of this section and is not revoked 
pursuant to subparagraph (1) of this paragraph may, without the consent 
of the Commissioner, be terminated at any time after making the election 
by filing a statement to that effect with the district director, or the 
director of the regional service center, with whom the election was 
filed. This statement giving notice of termination must be filed before 
the beginning of the month specified in the statement for which the 
termination is to be effective. If pursuant to this subparagraph the 
taxpayer terminates an election made under any such section, he may not 
thereafter make a new election under that section with respect to the 
facility, property, or equipment to which the termination relates.
    (d) Furnishing of supplementary information required. If the 
permanent regulations which are issued under the section of the Code or 
Act referred to in paragraph (a) (1) or (2) of this section to which the 
election relates require the furnishing of information in addition to 
that which was furnished with the statement of election filed pursuant 
to paragraph (b)(1) of this section, the taxpayer must furnish such 
additional information in a statement addressed to the district 
director, or the director of the regional service center, with whom the 
election was filed. This statement must clearly identify the election 
and the taxable year for which it was made.
    (e) Other elections. Elections under the following sections of the 
Code may not be made pursuant to paragraph (b)(1) of this section but 
are to be made under regulations, whether temporary or permanent, which 
will be issued under amendments made by the Act. If necessary, such 
regulations will provide a reasonable period of time within which 
taxpayers will be permitted to make elections under these sections for 
taxable years ending before the date on which such regulations are filed 
with the Office of the Federal Register:

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               Section                            Description
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167(k)(1)...........................  Expenditures to rehabilitate low-
                                       income rental housing.
167(l)(4)...........................  Post-1969 property of certain
                                       utilities representing growth in
                                       capacity.
170(b)(1)(D)(iii)...................  Special limitation with respect to
                                       contributions of certain capital
                                       gain property.
453(c)..............................  Revocation of election to report
                                       income on installment basis.
507(b)(1)(B)(ii)....................  Notice of termination of private
                                       foundation status.
1564(a)(2)..........................  Allowance of certain amounts to
                                       component member of controlled
                                       group of corporations.
4942(h)(2)..........................  Deficient distributions of private
                                       foundations for prior taxable
                                       years.
4943(c)(4)(E).......................  Determination of holdings of a
                                       private foundation in a business
                                       enterprise where substantial
                                       contributors hold more than 15
                                       percent of voting stock.
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    (f) Cross reference. For temporary regulations under sections 57(c) 
and 163(d)(7) of the code, relating to elections with respect to net 
leases of real property, see Sec. 12.8 of the regulations in this part 
(Temporary Income Tax Regulations Under the Revenue Act of 1971).

(83 Stat. 487, 85 Stat. 522, 523; 26 U.S.C. 1 nt., 57(c)(4), 163(d)(7))

[T.D. 7032, 35 FR 4330, Mar. 11, 1970; 35 FR 4622, Mar. 17, 1970, as 
amended by T.D. 7116, 36 FR 9010, May 18, 1971; T.D. 7137, 36 FR 14732, 
Aug. 11, 1971; T.D. 7140, 36 FR 18788, Sept. 22, 1971; T.D. 7171, 37 FR 
5619, Mar. 17, 1972; T.D. 7166, 37 FR 6400, Mar. 29, 1972; T.D. 7191, 37 
FR 13616, July 12, 1972; T.D. 7271, 38 FR 9297, Apr. 13, 1973; T.D. 
7418, 41 FR 18811, May 7, 1976. Redesignated by T.D. 8435, 57 FR 43896, 
Sept. 23, 1992]