2024 MSCPA Annual Convention: Details

Tax Planning-Buying and Selling C Corporations 2024

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Tuesday, November 19, 2024 @ 3:00pm 5:00pm
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Description

Review options for structuring the sale of a C corporation business from both buyer's and seller's perspectives to minimize tax costs. This course covers topics not routinely considered in a tax compliance practice but essential to the sale of a C corporation business.

Prerequisites

None

Highlights

• Taxable asset sales, sale of stock of the corporation and stock redemptions • Tax treatment of transaction costs of acquired intangibles, IRC 197 • Seller consulting and employment agreements • Installment sales • Sales of stock to Employee stock ownership plan • Tax-deferred acquisitive corporate reorganizations • Net operating losses and tax credits of acquired corporate business • The basics of stock sales eligible for Sec. 1202 and Section 1244

Objectives

• Recognize tax planning opportunities for selling a C corporation business • Identify the tax consequences of using employment and consulting agreements, covenants not to compete, personal goodwill and contingent sales price • Recognize special installment sale rules applicable C corporation asset sale and corporate liquidation. • Identify the basics of acquisitive reorganization • Recognize the rules related to the allocation of purchase among assets acquired

Preparation

None

Credits

Category Amount
Taxation 2.00