Chapter 19 - Corporate Formation

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Realization
Gain or loss that results from an exchange of property rights in a transaction.
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Persons
An individual, trust, estate, partnership, association, company, or corporation.
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Boot
Property given or received in an otherwise nontaxable transaction such as a like-kind exchange that may trigger gain to a party to the transaction. The term ... derives from a trading expression describing additional property a party to an exchange might throw in "to ..." to equalize the exchange.
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Substituted Basis
The transfer of the tax basis of stock or other property given up in an exchange to stock or other property received in return.
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Carryover Basis
The basis of an asset the transferee takes in property received in a nontaxable exchange. The basis of the asset ...s ... from the transferor to the transferee
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Contribution to Capital
A shareholder's or other person's ... of cash or other property to a corporation without receipt of an additional equity interest in the corporation.
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Challenging Concepts to study
(everything below this)
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Calculate a shareholder's stock basis in a section 351 transaction.
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Describe the treatment of liabilities assumed in Section 351 tax-deferred transactions.
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Recall the exception to the general rule for the assumption of liabilities in excess of basis.
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Recall the disadvantage of transferring appreciated property to a closely held corporation.
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Compute the basis of depreciable assets transferred to a corporation in a Section 351 transaction.
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