2015 US Code
Title 26 - Internal Revenue Code (Sections 1 - 9834)
Subtitle A - Income Taxes (Sections 1 - 1564)
Chapter 1 - Normal Taxes and Surtaxes (Sections 1 - 1400U-3)
Subchapter O - Gain or Loss on Disposition of Property (Sections 1001 - 1111)
Part II - Basis Rules of General Application (Sections 1011 - 1024)
Sec. 1019 - Property on which lessee has made improvements

Neither the basis nor the adjusted basis of any portion of real property shall, in the case of the lessor of such property, be increased or diminished on account of income derived by the lessor in respect of such property and excludable from gross income under section 109 (relating to improvements by lessee on lessor's property).

(Aug. 16, 1954, ch. 736, 68A Stat. 301; Pub. L. 113–295, div. A, title II, §221(a)(76), Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 4049.)

2014—Pub. L. 113–295 struck out last sentence which read as follows: "If an amount representing any part of the value of real property attributable to buildings erected or other improvements made by a lessee in respect of such property was included in gross income of the lessor for any taxable year beginning before January 1, 1942, the basis of each portion of such property shall be properly adjusted for the amount so included in gross income."

Amendment by Pub. L. 113–295 effective Dec. 19, 2014, subject to a savings provision, see section 221(b) of Pub. L. 113–295, set out as a note under section 1 of this title.