A Partner Will Recognize a Loss from a Liquidating Distribution

question 16

True/False

A partner will recognize a loss from a liquidating distribution when the distribution includes only cash, unrealized receivables, and inventory and the partner's outside basis is less than the sum of the bases of the distributed assets.

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