As Part of a Plan of Corporate Reorganization, Sally Exchanged

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Essay

As part of a plan of corporate reorganization, Sally exchanged 1,000 shares of Tone Corporation common stock that she had purchased for $85,000, for 3,000 shares of Fade Corporation voting common stock having an $87,000 FMV. What is the amount and character of Sally's recognized gain and her basis in the Tone stock as a result of the exchange?

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Massachusetts Bay

A region in the northeastern United States, centered around the body of water with the same name, historically significant for being a major site of early English colonization in America.

Trade with Indians

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Indentured Servitude

A labor system wherein young people paid for their passage to the New World by working for an employer for a certain number of years.

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The forced labor of African people, transported mainly to the Americas, used predominantly in plantation, mining, and domestic work from the 16th to the 19th centuries.