Harry Forms the Nectarine Corporation During the Current Tax Year

question 33

Multiple Choice

Harry forms the Nectarine Corporation during the current tax year.To form the corporation, Harry transfers assets having a fair market value of $650,000 to Nectarine Corporation for 100 percent of the corporation's stock.Harry's adjusted basis in the assets transferred was $375,000 and Nectarine Corporation assumed a $200,000 mortgage on the assets.If the fair market value of the stock received by Harry is $450,000, what is his basis in the stock received from the corporation?

• A)$175,000
• B)$200,000
• C)$375,000
• D)$450,000
• E)None of the above

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Definitions:

Phallic

Pertaining to the phallus or penis, often used in psychoanalytic theory to describe the stage of psychosexual development focused on the genital organs.

Latency

The period of delay before a response or the onset of a disease after exposure to a stimulus or pathogen.

Genital

Relating to the reproductive organs; also used to describe the phase of psychosexual development in psychoanalytic theory that focuses on the genitals.

Phallic Stage

A phase in Freudian psychosexual development, occurring roughly between the ages of 3 and 6 years, where the libido (sexual energy) is focused on the genitals.