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131 STAT. 2065 PUBLIC LAW 115–97—DEC. 22, 2017 or before the 60th day after the due date (including exten- sions) for such return. ‘‘(5) ACQUISITIONS, DISPOSITIONS, AND SHORT TAXABLE YEARS.—The Secretary shall provide for the application of this subsection in cases of a short taxable year or where the tax- payer acquires, or disposes of, the major portion of a trade or business or the major portion of a separate unit of a trade or business during the taxable year. ‘‘(6) QUALIFIED PROPERTY.—For purposes of this section: ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘qualified property’ means, with respect to any qualified trade or business for a taxable year, tangible property of a character subject to the allow- ance for depreciation under section 167— ‘‘(i) which is held by, and available for use in, the qualified trade or business at the close of the taxable year, ‘‘(ii) which is used at any point during the taxable year in the production of qualified business income, and ‘‘(iii) the depreciable period for which has not ended before the close of the taxable year. ‘‘(B) DEPRECIABLE PERIOD.—The term ‘depreciable period’ means, with respect to qualified property of a tax- payer, the period beginning on the date the property was first placed in service by the taxpayer and ending on the later of— ‘‘(i) the date that is 10 years after such date, or ‘‘(ii) the last day of the last full year in the applicable recovery period that would apply to the property under section 168 (determined without regard to subsection (g) thereof). ‘‘(c) QUALIFIED BUSINESS INCOME.—For purposes of this sec- tion— ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘qualified business income’ means, for any taxable year, the net amount of qualified items of income, gain, deduction, and loss with respect to any qualified trade or business of the taxpayer. Such term shall not include any qualified REIT dividends, qualified cooperative dividends, or qualified publicly traded partnership income. ‘‘(2) CARRYOVER OF LOSSES.—If the net amount of qualified income, gain, deduction, and loss with respect to qualified trades or businesses of the taxpayer for any taxable year is less than zero, such amount shall be treated as a loss from a qualified trade or business in the succeeding taxable year. ‘‘(3) QUALIFIED ITEMS OF INCOME, GAIN, DEDUCTION, AND LOSS.—For purposes of this subsection— ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘qualified items of income, gain, deduction, and loss’ means items of income, gain, deduction, and loss to the extent such items are— ‘‘(i) effectively connected with the conduct of a trade or business within the United States (within the meaning of section 864(c), determined by sub- stituting ‘qualified trade or business (within the meaning of section 199A)’ for ‘nonresident alien indi- vidual or a foreign corporation’ or for ‘a foreign corpora- tion’ each place it appears), and VerDate Sep 11 2014 10:09 Oct 18, 2018 Jkt 079139 PO 00097 Frm 00013 Fmt 6580 Sfmt 6581 E:\PUBLAW\PUBL097.115 PUBL097 dkrause on DSKBC28HB2PROD with PUBLAWS