Match the Following Items with the Statements That Follow

question 84

Multiple Choice

Match the following items with the statements that follow. Terms may be used more than once.
-Acquiring Corporation receives all the assets of Target Corporation in exchange for 1,000 preferred shares and 6,000 common shares of Acquiring, $25,000 cash, and assumption of all the liabilities of Target. After distributing the Acquiring stock and cash to its shareholders, Target liquidates.

• A)Boot
• B)Business credits
• C)Capital gain
• D)Continuity of business enterprise
• E)Continuity of interest
• F)Dividend
• G)Discount rate
• H)Earnings and profits
• I)Federal long-term tax-exempt rate
• J)Liability assumption
• K)Ordinary gain
• L)Ownership change
• M)Section 382 limitation
• N)Sound business purpose
• O)Step transaction

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