“Domestic”
26 C.F.R. § 1.408-2 – Individual retirement accounts.
§ 1.408-2 Individual retirement accounts.
(b)Requirements.
An individual retirement account must be a trust created or organized in the United States (as defined in section 7701(a)(9)) for the exclusive benefit of an individual or his beneficiaries. Such trust must be maintained at all times as a domestic trust in the United States. ”
[EDITORIAL: Evidence that “domestic” in the IRC does not mean American, but means FEDERALLY domestic]
Title 26: Internal Revenue
PART 1—INCOME TAXES
Withholding of Tax on Nonresident Aliens and Foreign Corporations and Tax-Free Covenant Bonds
§ 1.1441-1 Requirement for the deduction and withholding of tax on payments to foreign persons.
(b) General rules of withholding
(2) Determination of payee and payee’s status
(iii) Payments to wholly-owned entities
For purposes of this paragraph (b)(2)(iii)(A), a domestic entity means a person that would be treated as a U.S. person if it had an election in effect under §301.7701–3(c)(1)(i) of this chapter to be treated as a corporation.
TITLE 26 > Subtitle F > CHAPTER 79 > § 7701
(a) When used in this title, where not otherwise distinctly expressed or manifestly incompatible with the intent thereof—
(4) Domestic
The term “domestic” when applied to a corporation or partnership means created or organized in the United States or under the law of the United States or of any State unless, in the case of a partnership, the Secretary provides otherwise by regulations.
[EDITORIAL: The above used to say “State or Territory” up until 1976, when “or Territory” was removed by P.L. 94-455, §1906(c)(3). By not having a comma in “State or Territory”, they are the same]
26 C.F.R. §301.7701-5 Domestic, foreign, resident, and nonresident persons.
A domestic corporation is one organized or created in the United States, including only the States (and during the periods when not States, the Territories of Alaska and Hawaii), and the District of Columbia, or under the law of the United States or of any State or Territory. A foreign corporation is one which is not domestic. A domestic corporation is a resident corporation even though it does no business and owns no property in the United States. A foreign corporation engaged in trade or business within the United States is referred to in the regulations in this chapter as a resident foreign corporation, and a foreign corporation not engaged in trade or business within the United States, as a nonresident foreign corporation. A partnership engaged in trade or business within the United States is referred to in the regulations in this chapter as a resident partnership, and a partnership not engaged in trade or business within the United States, as a nonresident partnership. Whether a partnership is to be regarded as resident or nonresident is not determined by the nationality or residence of its members or by the place in which it was created or organized.
[Amended by T.D. 8813, Federal Register: February 2, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 21), Page 4967-4975]