,i #aaeth ,,congress #ast ,session ,h4 ,r4 #daff ,,in ,,the ,,house ,,of ,,representatives ,october #bg1 #bjag,mr4 ,smith of ,nebraska introduced the following bill2 which was referred to the ,committee on ,ways and ,means ,a ,,bill ,to amend the ,internal ,revenue ,code of #aihf to allow all employees of a firm to be counted as a single shareholder toward the shareholder limit of an ,s corporation4 #a4 ,employees of a firm counted as a single shareholder toward shareholder limit of ,s corporation 7a7 ,in general ,subsection 7c7 of section #acfa of the ,internal ,revenue ,code of #aihf is amended by adding at the end the following3 7#g7 ,employees treated as one shareholder 7,a7 ,in general ,for purposes of subsection 7b77#a77;,a71 in the case of a corporation which has only employee shareholders1 there shall be treated as one shareholder all employees 7and their estates7 of a corporation and any wholly owned business entities 7as determined by the ,secretary7 of such corporation4 7,b7 ,employee defined ,for purposes of this paragraph-- 7i7 ,in general ,the term 8employee0 means any individual 7whether a resident alien1 nonresident alien1 or citizen7 that would be an employee described under section #caba7;d7 7#a7 or 7#b74 7ii7 ,certain determinations with respect to spouse disregarded ,in making the determination whether a corporation has only employee shareholders1 any current ownership in stock by a spouse of an employee by reason of a ,state community property law or other similar ,federal1 ,state1 or foreign country law1 shall be disregarded4 4 7b7 ,exception to nonresident shareholder prohibition ,subparagraph 7,c7 of section #acfa7;b77#a7 of such ,code is amended to read as follows3 7,c7 have a nonresident alien as a shareholder 7except for a nonresident alien that is a shareholder by reason of subsection 7c77#g7 or a nonresident alien spouse of an employee which is a shareholder in a corporation described in subsection 7c77#g771 and 4 7c7 ,withholding with respect to nonresident aliens ,section #acgc of such ,code is amended by adding at the end the following3 7c7 ,withholding with respect to nonresident aliens ,the principles of sections #adda and #addf shall apply to income allocable to1 and distributions to1 a nonresident alien shareholder of an ,s corporation 7allowed by reason of section #acfa7;b77#a77;,c774 ,the ,secretary may prescribe regulations to carry out the purposes of this subsection4 4 7d7 ,defining items of income for purposes of withholding tax on nonresident aliens ,subsection 7b7 of section #adda of such ,code is amended by inserting before the period at the end of the first sentence the following3 1 and any items of income described in section #acff7;a7 allocable to a nonresident alien that is an ,s ,corporation shareholder by reason of section #acfa7;c77#g74 7e7 ,effective date ,the amendments made by this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after the date of the enactment of this ,act4