Freedom Drones, Inc. will be formed to mass produce and market drones that will be sold to the US government and various delivery services. Individual A and B will initially capitalize the company as described below. Your clients, Individual A and B, have asked you to consider the tax implications of the following initial contributions to the capital of Freedom Drones, Inc.
Individual A contributes cash of $50,000 and receives 10 shares of stock worth $50,000 in exchange for the cash contribution.
Individual B contributes a prototype for the drone with a FMV of $50,000 and an adjusted basis of $5,000. In building the prototype, B borrowed $10,000 from a bank. B will receive 8 shares of stock with a FMV of $40,000 and Freedom
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This transaction qualifies for nonrecogniton treatment under IRC section 351 in the following ways:
(1) The properties that A and B transferred satisfies the definition of property under IRC section 351. Under the definition, property includes cash, inventory, equipment, real estate, patents, or other intangibles such as goodwill or know-how. The prototype transferred by B belongs to know-how while A transferred cash directly.
(2) Since all substantial rights in the property, including A’s cash and B’s prototype, have been transferred to the company, this transfer satisfies requirements for transfer in Section 351.
(3) Section 351 (g) provides that debt instruments or nonqualified preferred stock do not qualify for section 351 treatment. In our case, the stocks transferors received are common stocks. Therefore, it qualifies for section 351 treatment with this respect.
(4) Section 368 (c) provides that to satisfy the “control” requirement in section 351, transferors of property should have ownership of 80 percent of the combined voting power of all stock and 80 percent of all other classes of stock. Section 351 also provides that transferors should be in control of the corporation immediately after the exchange. In this case, since A has a prearranged agreement with C to sell 2 shares of A’s stock immediately after the formation of the corporation, these 2 shares cannot be considered as A’s
Now that we have converted the sole proprietorship to a s-corporation, the tax planning and strategic planning must be the next topic to address. Since Mr. Jones does not have a spouse, he must consider Mandy as the heir to business and his estate. The Current value of his estate is 53 million dollars. He currently wants his daughter to control 40% of the business and be employed by the business. This memo will discuss the following topics: tax planning, strategic planning, estate planning, transfer of assets and selling the business.
18) Barbara sells a house with an FMV of $170,000 to her daughter for $120,000. From this transaction, Barbara is deemed to have made a gift (before the annual exclusion) of
Mohave Inc. purchased land, building, and equipment from Laguna Corporation for a cash payment of $431,550. The estimated fair values of the assets are land $82,200, building $301,400, and
After critical examination of the related standards, we conclude that cash, common stock, contingent consideration and replacement stock option awards attributable to pre-combination services should be considered to determine consideration transferred. As a result, total consideration transferred is (in million)
The assets and liabilities being obtained were recorded by the buyer at fair value as of the date of acquisition
d. A parent exchanges its ownership interests or the net assets of a wholly owned subsidiary for additional shares issued by the parent’s less-than-wholly-owned subsidiary, thereby increasing the parent’s percentage of ownership in the less-than-wholly-owned subsidiary but leaving all of the existing noncontrolling interest outstanding.
Under Section 351(a), the transfer of property to a corporation is nontaxable only if the transferors control the corporation immediately after the exchange; control is defined as being 80% of the corporations voting stock. Reg. Sec. 1.351-1(a) further outlines the requirements for an 80% control test, but does not mention of provide any further insight on whether the prearranged binding agreement which had Bob sell half of his stock to Carl will meet the control requirements. There are 2 factors listed in Reg. Sec. 1.351-1 that could
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Section 743(a) disrupts Subchapter K’s goal of basis uniformity by leaving the basis in partnership assets unaffected by transfer of a partnership interest. The undisturbed basis most likely leaves the transferee partner with basis different from the seller and from that interest’s share of the partnership’s inside basis.
In Rel. Rul. 2003-51, there provides a successful example of Section 351 exchange that the transferor transfers property to a corporation in exchange stock and immediately after the transferor meets the requirement of in control of the corporation and involves the issue of the “pursuant to a binding agreement” with a third party before the exchange. Corporation W engages in businesses A, B, C. Another unrelated Corporation to W that is called Corporation X also engages in business A through X’s wholly owned domestic subsidiary, Y. At the same time, W and X wants to consolidated their business and form a new corporation from their operations in business A. In order to reach this goal and pursuant to a prearranged binding agreement, W then forms a Corporation called Z and transfers all of the assets from business A to Z to exchange Z’s stock that is their first transfer. Immediately thereafter, W transfers all of its Z stock to Y in order to exchange Y’s stock that is their second transfer. X then transfers $30x to Y to meet business A’s capital needs simultaneously that is the third transfer. After that, Y transfers the $30x from X and its assets from business A to Z that is the fourth transfer. W and X can own 40 percent and 60 percent outstanding stocks in Y after second and third transfers. Each of the first transfer, the combined second and third transfers and the fourth transfer qualifies to be Section 351 transaction. In the “Analysis” of Rel.
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The inclusion of the assets of stock material and leasehold have to be added Clause 1, that describes Assets, or could be added to an attached Schedule that describes all the assets that are to be transferred to the Buyer.