Disclosure of a treaty-based position that reduces your tax. If you take the position that any U.S. tax is overruled or otherwise reduced by a U.S. treaty (a treaty-based position), you generally must disclose that position on your affected return.

U.S.-U.S.S.R. income tax treaty. The U.S.-U.S.S.R. income tax treaty remains in effect for the following members of the Commonwealth of Independent States: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. That treaty will remain in effect until new treaties with these individual countries are negotiated and ratified. Provisions of the U.S.-U.S.S.R. income tax treaty are discussed in this publication under Commonwealth of Independent States.

U.S.-China income tax treaty. The U.S.-China income tax treaty does not apply to Hong Kong.

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