Maatex Inc., an accrual-basis taxpayer, transferred an operating division to a newly incorporated subsidiary, Taylor Inc., in exchange for 100% of Taylor’s newly issued common stock. The division’s business assets were worth $900,000 and had a tax basis of $440,000. The division also had $82,000 of accounts payable which were assumed by Taylor Inc. as part of the incorporation transaction. Required Should Maatex Inc. recognize any of its $460,000 realized gain on the exchange of property for stock and debt relief? How would your answers to these questions change if the accounts payable assumed by Taylor totaled $500,000 rather than only $82,000?

Maatex Inc., an accrual-basis taxpayer, transferred an operating division to a newly incorporated subsidiary, Taylor Inc., in exchange for 100% of Taylor’s newly issued common stock. The division’s business assets were worth $900,000 and had a tax basis of $440,000. The division also had $82,000 of accounts payable which were assumed by Taylor Inc. as part of the incorporation transaction. Required Should Maatex Inc. recognize any of its $460,000 realized gain on the exchange of property for stock and debt relief? How would your answers to these questions change if the accounts payable assumed by Taylor totaled $500,000 rather than only $82,000?

SWFT Comprehensive Volume 2019

42nd Edition

ISBN:9780357233306

Author:Maloney

Publisher:Maloney

Chapter24: Multistate Corporate Taxation

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