Sec. 70434. Treatment of certain qualified sound recording productions
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Section 181(a)(1) is amended by striking qualified film or television production, and any qualified live theatrical production, and inserting qualified film or television production, any qualified live theatrical production, and any qualified sound recording production . Section 181(a)(2) is amended by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: Paragraph
(1)shall not apply to so much of the aggregate cost of any qualified sound recording production, or to so much of the aggregate, cumulative cost of all such qualified sound recording productions in the taxable year, as exceeds $150,000. . Section 181(b) is amended by striking qualified film or television production or any qualified live theatrical production and inserting qualified film or television production, any qualified live theatrical production, or any qualified sound recording production . Section 181(c)(1) is amended by striking qualified film or television production or any qualified live theatrical production and inserting qualified film or television production, any qualified live theatrical production, or any qualified sound recording production . Section 181 is amended by redesignating subsections
(f)and
(g)as subsections
(g)and (h), respectively, and by inserting after subsection
(e)the following new subsection: For purposes of this section, the term qualified sound recording production means a sound recording (as defined in section 101 of title 17, United States Code) produced and recorded in the United States. . Section 181(h), as redesignated by subsection (e), is amended by striking qualified film and television productions or qualified live theatrical productions and inserting qualified film and television productions, qualified live theatrical productions, or qualified sound recording productions . Section 168(k)(2)(A)(i) is amended— by striking or at the end of subclause (IV), by inserting or at the end of subclause (V), and by inserting after subclause
(V)the following: which is a qualified sound recording production (as defined in subsection
(f)of section 181) for which a deduction would have been allowable under section 181 without regard to subsections (a)(2) and
(h)of such section or this subsection, and , and in subclauses
(IV)and
(V)(as so amended) by striking without regard to subsections (a)(2) and
(g)both places it appears and inserting without regard to subsections (a)(2) and
(h). Section 168(k)(2)(H) is amended by striking and at the end of clause (i), by striking the period at the end of clause
(ii)and inserting , and , and by adding after clause
(ii)the following: a qualified sound recording production shall be considered to be placed in service at the time of initial release or broadcast. . The heading for section 181 is amended to read as follows: . treatment of certain qualified productions . The table of sections for part VI of subchapter B of chapter 1 is amended by striking the item relating to section 181 and inserting the following new item: Sec. 181. Treatment of certain qualified productions. . The amendments made by this section shall apply to productions commencing in taxable years ending after the date of the enactment of this Act.