Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 25 : Section 955


   
U.S. Code as of: 01/19/04
Section 955. Tax exemption

      (a) The right to an equalization allotment or to a cash payment
    in lieu thereof pursuant to section 953(d) of this title, shall be
    transferable by will or descent in the same manner as are trust
    payments under existing law and shall not be subject to State or
    Federal inheritance, estate, legacy, or succession taxes.
      (b) A cash payment made in lieu of an equalization allotment
    pursuant to section 953(d) of this title shall not be regarded as
    income or capital gain for purposes of Federal or State income
    taxation and shall not, as long as it remains in the form of cash
    or a bank deposit in the ownership of the allottee, be subject to
    taxation as personal property. A payment and the income derived
    therefrom heretofore or hereafter made to an allottee as
    compensation for the acquisition of part or all of the allottee's
    allotment for a public purpose is - 
        (1) deemed a cash payment in lieu of an allotment for purposes
      of this subsection;
        (2) deemed a right under subsection (a) of this section; and
        (3) subject to sections 409a and 410 of this title.



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