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Income Tax--Corporate Liquidations--Deductability Of Legal Expenses, Gary L. Call Feb 1975

Income Tax--Corporate Liquidations--Deductability Of Legal Expenses, Gary L. Call

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Providing An Effective Remedy In Shareholder Suits Against Officers, Directors, And Controlling Persons, Michael H. Woolever Jan 1975

Providing An Effective Remedy In Shareholder Suits Against Officers, Directors, And Controlling Persons, Michael H. Woolever

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Corporate officers, directors, and controlling persons occupy a fiduciary relationship toward the corporation and its shareholders in the exercise of control over corporate affairs. This fiduciary obligation requires that officers, directors, and controlling persons act in good faith and perform their offices in the best interests of the corporation and its shareholders and not to their own advantage. When this duty is breached, a shareholder may bring an action against these fiduciaries, either in his own name or derivatively for the benefit of the corporation. Under present law, however, it may be impossible for an American court to secure jurisdiction …


Line-Of-Business Reporting: A Legal Basis, J. V. Baumler Jan 1975

Line-Of-Business Reporting: A Legal Basis, J. V. Baumler

Cleveland State Law Review

The action of the SEC has mooted, for regulated firms, the question of whether or not an obligation existed to report a segmented earnings statement even without administrative regulation. Some had suggested that such an obligation did exist. No matter; the question is now answered affirmatively, such reports must be prepared. We are none-the-less left with the thorny question of how best to provide segmented financial reports. The next section of this paper will identify the major problems of implementation. Then attention will be focused upon one of these problems and an examination will be made of its possible resolution …


A Definition Of "Liabilities" In Code Sections 357 And 358(D), Douglas A. Kahn, Dale A. Oesterle Jan 1975

A Definition Of "Liabilities" In Code Sections 357 And 358(D), Douglas A. Kahn, Dale A. Oesterle

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Internal Revenue Code section 351(a) provides that no gain or loss shall be recognized if property is transferred to a corporation solely in exchange for its stock or securities and the transferors control the corporation immediately after the exchange. If, in addition to receiving stock or securities in an exchange that would otherwise qualify for section 351 treatment, a transferor receives other property or money -- "boot" -- any realized gain is recognized up to the amount of the money and the fair market value of the other property received. The transferee corporation's assumption of the transferor's liabilities or its …


The Responsibility Of A Corporation: An Attempt At Implementation, Jan G. Deutsch Jan 1975

The Responsibility Of A Corporation: An Attempt At Implementation, Jan G. Deutsch

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.