Match the Following Items with the Statements Below

question 17

Multiple Choice

Match the following items with the statements below. Terms may be used more than once.
-Solar currently operates nine lines of business that have been in existence for ten years. To protect its assets from possible lawsuits, Solar transfers each division to newly formed corporations in exchange for all of the stock of the new corporations. Solar distributes the stock in the nine new corporations to its shareholders in exchange for 45% of their stock in Solar.

• 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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