- Section 306 of the IRC was enacted by Congress to prevent tax avoidance by distributing certain stock to a shareholder in a nontaxable stock dividend. Section 306 prevents shareholders from using a preferred stock bailout to convert ordinary income into a capital gain. Analyze the key provisions of Section 306 of the IRC, and outline a tax- planning strategy geared toward redeeming preferred stock with sale or exchange treatment as an alternative to Section 306.
- From your analysis
of Section 306 in the e-Activity, differentiate between the tax
treatment of earnings and profit on the distributing corporation of both
a sale of Section 306 stock and redemption of Section 306 stock.
Suggest the most important reasons for this differentiation in tax
treatment.
Saturday, 21 June 2014
"Preferred Stock Bailouts"
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