H.R. 6440: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 for purposes of the tax on private foundation excess business holdings to treat as outstanding any employee-owned stock purchased by a business enterprise pursuant to certain employee stock ownership retirement plans.

This bill excludes certain purchases of employee-owned stock from being considered as outstanding voting stock for the purpose of the excise tax on excess business holdings of a private foundation in a business enterprise.

The bill applies to any voting stock that is (1) not readily tradable on an established securities market; (2) purchased by the business enterprise on or after January 1, 2005, from an employee stock ownership plan in which employees of the business enterprise participate, in connection with a distribution from the plan; and (3) held by the business enterprise as treasury stock, cancelled, or retired.

Written by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.