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PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 289- -MAY 28, 1938 (2) For the purpose of section 332 (e) (relating to personal service contracts), but only if the effect of the inclusion of all such securities is to make the amounts therein referred to includ- ible under such subsection as foreign personal holding company income; and (3) For the purpose of section 332 (f) (relating to the use of property by shareholders), but only if the effect of the inclusion of all such securities is to make the amounts therein referred to includible under such subsection as foreign personal holding company income. Exception. The requirement in paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) that all convertible securities must be included if any are to be included shall be subject to the exception that, where some of the outstanding securities are convertible only after a later date than in the case of others, the class having the earlier conversion date may be included although the others are not included, but no convertible securities shall be included unless all outstanding securities having a prior conversion date are also included. Gross income. SEC. 334. GROSS INCOME OF FOREIGN PERSONAL HOLDING COM- PANIES. Term defined. Ante, p. 530. Additions to gross income. Ante, p. 546 . Application of sub- section (b). Undistributed Sup- plement P net income. Term defined. (a) GENERAL RuAE. -As used in this Supplement with respect to a foreign corporation the term "gross income" means gross income computed (without regard to the provisions of Supplement I) as if the foreign corporation were a domestic corporation. (b) ADDITIONS TO GROSS INCOME. -In the case of a foreign personal holding company (whether or not a United States group, as defined in section 331 (a) (2), existed with respect to such company on the last day of its taxable year) which was a shareholder in another foreign personal holding company on the day in the taxable year (whether beginning before, on or after January 1, 1938) of the second company which was the last day on which a United States group existed with respect to the second company, there shall be included, as a dividend, in the gross income of the first company, for the taxable year in which or with which the taxable year of the second company ends, the amount the first company would have received as a dividend if on such last day there had been distributed by the second company, and received by the shareholders, an amount which bears the same ratio to the undistributed Supplement P net income of the second company for its taxable year as the portion of such taxable year up to and including such last day bears to the entire taxable year. (c) APPLICATION OF SUBSECTION (b). -The rule provided in subsection (b) - (1) shall be applied in the case of a foreign personal holding company for the purpose of determining its undistributed Supplement P net income which, or a part of which, is to be included in the gross income of its shareholders, whether United States shareholders or other foreign personal holding companies; (2) shall be applied in the case of every foreign corporation with respect to which a United States group exists on some day of its taxable year, for the purpose of determining whether such corporation meets the gross income requirements of section 331 (a) (1). SEC. 335. UNDISTRIBUTED SUPPLEMENT P NET INCOME. For the purposes of this title the term "undistributed Supplement P net income" means the Supplement P net income (as defined in section 336) minus the amount of the basic surtax credit provided 548 [52 STAT.