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Temporary And Proposed Section 752 Regulations: Progress Or Regress?, Walter D. Schwidetzky
Temporary And Proposed Section 752 Regulations: Progress Or Regress?, Walter D. Schwidetzky
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In October, 2016, the Internal Revenue Service issued temporary and proposed regulations under Internal Revenue Code Sections 752 and 704 (“the 2016 Regulations”). The author reviews and analyzes these regulations, and concludes that the 2016 Regulations properly deny economic risk of loss for unduly remote bottom dollar guarantees. He also concludes, however, that the IRS exceeded its regulatory authority when it also denied economic risk of loss on bottom-dollar guarantees where the risk to the guarantor was not remote. In addition, he observes that the 2016 Regulations lead to an inappropriate disjuncture with Section 465 and create rules that are …