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Bootstraps And Capital Gain--A Participant's View Of Commissioner V. Clay Brown, William H. Kinsey
Bootstraps And Capital Gain--A Participant's View Of Commissioner V. Clay Brown, William H. Kinsey
Michigan Law Review
A closely held corporation may be sold in a variety of ways. At one end of the spectrum is an all-cash sale. In such a transaction, the seller receives the purchase price and has no further concern with the economic well-being of the business. The difficulty with this method, of course, is finding a purchaser with sufficient cash who is willing to pay a fair price.
At the other end of the spectrum is a full-fledged bootstrap sale, where there is no down payment other than from the underlying assets of the sold corporation, and the purchaser's obligation to pay …