2015 US Code
Title 26 - Internal Revenue Code (Sections 1 - 9834)
Subtitle A - Income Taxes (Sections 1 - 1564)
Chapter 3 - Withholding of Tax on Nonresident Aliens and Foreign Corporations (Sections 1441 - 1465)
Subchapter A - Nonresident Aliens and Foreign Corporations (Sections 1441 - 1446)
Sec. 1444 - Withholding on Virgin Islands source income

For purposes of determining the withholding tax liability incurred in the Virgin Islands pursuant to this title (as made applicable to the Virgin Islands) with respect to amounts received from sources within the Virgin Islands by citizens and resident alien individuals of the United States, and corporations organized in the United States, the rate of withholding tax under sections 1441 and 1442 on income subject to tax under section 871(a)(1) or 881 shall not exceed the rate of tax on such income under section 871(a)(1) or 881, as the case may be.

(Added Pub. L. 97–455, §1(b), Jan. 12, 1983, 96 Stat. 2497; amended Pub. L. 100–647, title I, §1012(x), Nov. 10, 1988, 102 Stat. 3530.)

1988—Pub. L. 100–647 struck out "(as modified by section 934A)" before "shall not exceed".

Amendment by Pub. L. 100–647 effective, except as otherwise provided, as if included in the provision of the Tax Reform Act of 1986, Pub. L. 99–514, to which such amendment relates, see section 1019(a) of Pub. L. 100–647, set out as a note under section 1 of this title.

Section applicable to payments made after Jan. 12, 1983, see section 1(e)(2) of Pub. L. 97–455, set out as a note under section 934 of this title.