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The OID Regulations contain an aggregation rule (the Aggregation Rule) under which
two or more debt instruments issued in connection with the same transaction (or related
transactions in certain circumstances) generally are treated as a single debt instrument for federal
income tax accounting purposes if issued by a single issuer to a single Holder. The Aggregation
Rule, however, does not apply if the debt instrument is part of an issue (i) a substantial portion of
which is traded on an established market or (ii) a substantial portion of which is issued for cash
(or property traded on an established market) to parties who are not related to the issuer or
Holder and who do not purchase other debt instruments of the same issuer in connection with the
same transaction or related transactions. In most cases, the Aggregation Rule will not apply to
Regular Securities of different Classes that are sold to the public because one or both of the
exceptions to the Aggregation Rule will have been met. Although the Tax Administrator will
apply the Aggregation Rule to all regular interests in a Trust REMIC that are held by a related
Trust REMIC, it generally will not apply the Aggregation Rule to Regular Securities for
purposes of reporting to Holders.
The OID Regulations provide that a Holder generally may make an election (a Constant
Yield Election) to include in gross income all stated interest, OID, de minimis OID, market
discount (as described below under Market Discount), and de minimis market discount that
accrues on a Regular Security (as reduced by any amortizable premium, as described below
under Amortizable Premium or acquisition premium, as described below) under the constant
yield method used to account for OID. To make the Constant Yield Election, the Holder of the
Security must attach a statement to its timely filed federal income tax return for the taxable year
in which the Holder acquired the Security. The statement must identify the instruments to which
the election applies. A Constant Yield Election is irrevocable unless the Holder obtains the
consent of the Service. In general, the Constant Yield Election may be made on an obligation-
by-obligation basis. If, however a Constant Yield Election is made for a debt instrument with
market discount, the Holder is deemed to have made an election to include in income currently
the market discount on all debt instruments with market discount subsequently acquired during
the same tax year or thereafter by the Holder, as described in Market Discount below. In
addition, if a Constant Yield Election is made for a debt instrument with amortizable premium,
the Holder is deemed to have made an election to amortize the premium on all of the Holders
other debt instruments with amortizable premium under the constant yield method. See
Amortizable Premium below.
The federal income tax treatment of income on a Regular Security, the payments on
which consist entirely or primarily of a specified nonvarying portion of the interest payable on
one or more of the qualified mortgages held by the Trust REMIC (an Interest Weighted
Security), is unclear. Until the Service provides contrary administrative guidance on the
income tax treatment of an Interest Weighted Security, the Tax Administrator intends to take the
position that an Interest Weighted Security does not bear qualified stated interest and will
account for the income thereon as described in Certain Federal Income Tax Consequences
Original Issue DiscountInterest Weighted Securities and Non-VRDI Securities herein. Some
Interest Weighted Securities may provide for a relatively small amount of principal and for
interest that can be expressed as qualified stated interest at a very high fixed rate with respect to
that principal (Superpremium Securities). Superpremium Securities technically are issued
with amortizable premium. However, because of their close similarity to other Interest Weighted
Securities, it appears more appropriate to account for Superpremium Securities in the same