OVERVIEW OF FINAL REGULATIONS TD 8610 -- TAXABLE MORTGAGE POOLS (FI -55- 91) A taxable mortgage pool -- an entity that owns real estate mortgages financed by debt with more than one maturity and links debt payments to mortgage payments -- is required to pay tax as a corporation unless it elects to be classified as a real estate mortgage investment conduit -- or REMIC. If a taxable mortgage pool receives annual interest payments exceeding the interest it pays, the resulting income is taxed. REMIC rules provide a different way of taxing this income. These regulations help define whether an entity is a taxable mortgage pool. Among other things, they explain that pools of certain troubled loans and pools created to liquidate real estate mortgages within a three-year period are not taxable mortgage pools. A government organization is not considered a taxable mortgage pool if it uses mortgages to issue debt to perform a governmental purpose. The final regulations became effective 30 days after their publication on page 40086 of the Federal Register of August 7, 1995.