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The Effect Of Like-Kind Property On The Section 704(C) Anti-Mixing Bowl Rules, Bradley T. Borden, Douglas L. Longhofer

Bradley T. Borden

Section 704(c)(2) provides an exception to the section 704(c)(1)(B) anti-mixing bowl rules. Commentators have observed that the section 704(c)(2) regulations appear to reach a result that is different from the one intended by the language of the statute. This article take a close look at the language of section 704(c)(2) and suggests that it is subject to multiple interpretations. Of those multiple interpretations, one that requires the partners to recast their original transaction to account for the basis of distributed like-kind property is the most reasonable. The results obtained using that interpretation are identical to the results in the section …