(1) Additional Amounts will not be payable if a payment on a Note is reduced as a result of any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that is imposed or withheld solely by reason of the beneficial owner:
(a) having a relationship with the United States as a citizen, resident or otherwise;
(b) having had such a relationship in the past; or
(c) being considered as having had such a relationship.
(2) Additional Amounts will not be payable if a payment on a Note is reduced as a result of any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that is imposed or withheld solely by reason of the beneficial owner:
(a) being treated as present in or engaged in a trade or business in the United States;
(b) being treated as having been present in or engaged in a trade or business in the United States in the past; or
(c) having or having had a permanent establishment in the United States.
(3) Additional Amounts will not be payable if a payment on a Note is reduced as a result of any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that is imposed or withheld in whole or in part by reason of the beneficial owner being or having been any of the following (as such terms are defined in the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended):
(a) personal holding company;
(b) foreign private foundation or other foreigntax-exempt organization;
(c) passive foreign investment company;
(d) controlled foreign corporation; or
(e) corporation which has accumulated earnings to avoid United States federal income tax.
(4) Additional Amounts will not be payable if a payment on a Note is reduced as a result of any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that is imposed or withheld solely by reason of the beneficial owner owning or having owned, actually or constructively, 10 percent or more of the total combined voting power of all classes of stock of the Company entitled to vote or by reason of the beneficial owner being a bank that has invested in a Note as an extension of credit in the ordinary course of its trade or business.
For purposes of items (1) through (4) above, “beneficial owner” means a fiduciary, settlor, beneficiary, member or shareholder of the holder if the holder is an estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, corporation or other entity, or a person holding a power over an estate or trust administered by a fiduciary holder.
(5) Additional Amounts will not be payable to any beneficial owner of a Note that is a:
(a) fiduciary;
(b) partnership;
(c) limited liability company; or
(d) other fiscally transparent entity
or that is not the sole beneficial owner of the Note, or any portion of the Note. However, this exception to the obligation to pay Additional Amounts will only apply to the extent that a beneficiary