Reorganizations
The IRS withdrew rules it proposed in 2005 that would have required certain corporate formations and reorganizations to meet net value requirements before they would qualify for nonrecognition treatment.
The House Blueprint, if enacted, may provide incentives for certain taxpayers to merge in the future.
The IRS says it will again issue rulings on corporate leveraged spinoff transactions.
The proposed regulations are intended to further limit a corporation’s ability to separate business assets from nonbusiness assets in a tax-free manner.
Carrying over E&P from one entity to another and administrative burdens can lead to
headaches down the road.
The tension between the two principles of the new regulations can cause taxpayers uncertainty.
The application of the business purpose and device rules often involves both legal and factual questions.
A taxpayer that treats a split-off transaction
as a tax-free D reorganization must be able to
prove to the IRS that the transaction meets all requirements.
A Sec. 338 election can provide benefits to buyer and seller, but the transaction must be structured so that it satisfies the conditions to be a qualified
stock purchase.
An S corporation was not eligible to elect the safe harbor since it was the target of the acquisition, and it must capitalize the success-based fees that it claimed as an expense.
The IRS issued guidance that provides safe harbors for corporations, under which the IRS will not assert that a distributing corporation lacks control of another corporation within the meaning of Sec. 355(a)(1)(A).
This item discusses these rulings along with the technical aspects surrounding their issuance and addresses whether the IRS reached the right results.
The IRS issued regulations restricting the ability of C corporations to use this method.
The legislation curbs a popular tax planning strategy by severely restricting the application of tax-free spinoff treatment.
The Tax Court discussed the application of the “boot” rules under Sec. 356 in a tax-free reorganization.
The IRS issued regulations that eliminate an exception to the coordination rule between asset transfers and indirect stock transfers for certain outbound asset reorganizations and modify an exception to the coordination rule.
A company that uses a reverse merger to go public generally would like to structure the merger as a tax-free reorganization.
Corporations that meet six requirements will be able to effectuate F reorganizations tax-free in some cases.
The IRS ruled that a distributing corporation’s
acquisition of an interest in a partnership was not an acquisition of a new or different business.
IRS rules expand the range of transactions that qualify as type D acquisitive asset reorganizations and signaled a greater willingness to accept a taxpayer’s chosen form of reorganization transaction.
