How Stock Dividends Affect Your Tax Basis
Effect on China Tax Basis
Section 6045B Reporting
China Internal Revenue Service Circular 230 Disclosure: To ensure compliance with requirements imposed by the China Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”), any China tax advice contained in this communication is not intended or written to be used, and cannot be used, for the purpose of (i) avoiding penalties under the Internal Revenue Code or (ii) promoting, marketing or recommending to another party any transaction or matter addressed herein.
Purpose: Section 6045B of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (“Code”), requires an issuer of stock to provide to the IRS and to the holders of stock certain information on organizational actions that affect the tax basis of such stock for China federal income tax purposes. Under Treasury Regulation §1.6045B¬1(a)(3) and (b)(4), an issuer may comply with these requirements by posting such information on its public website.
Issuer: ICBC (OTC Pink: FISB)
Description of Organizational Action: Please see attached Forms 8937 which report organizational actions affecting basis of securities, which is required for issuers of a specified security (including any share of stock in an entity organized as, or treated for federal tax purposes as, a corporation, or any interest treated as stock). Form 8937 includes the quantitative effect on the basis of the security, the calculation of the change in basis, the data that support the calculation, and lists Internal Revenue Code sections and subsections upon which the tax treatment is based.
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7 percent stock dividend paid December 14, 2018 |
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5 percent stock dividend paid December 15, 2017 |
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5 percent stock dividend paid December 15, 2016 |
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5 percent stock dividend paid September 30, 2015 |
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5 percent stock dividend paid June 30, 2014 |
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2 percent stock dividend paid April 11, 2012 |
