​Constructive Dividends, Redemptions, and Related Party Losses

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Constructive Dividends, Redemptions, and Related Party Losses

Suppose you are a CPA hired to represent a client who is currently under examination by the IRS. The client is the president and 95% shareholder of a building supply sales and warehousing business. He also owns 50% of the stock of a construction company. The client’s son owns the remaining 50% of the stock of the construction company. The client has received a Notice of Proposed Adjustments (NPA) on three (3) significant issues related to the building supply business for the years under examination. The issues identified in the NPA are unreasonable compensation, stock redemptions, and a rental loss. Additional facts regarding the issues are reflected below:

  • Unreasonable compensation: The taxpayer receives a salary of $10 million composed of a $5 million base salary plus 5% of gross receipts not to exceed $5 million. The total gross receipts of the building supply business are $300 million. The NPA by the IRS disallows the salary based on 5% of gross receipts as a constructive dividend.
  • Stock redemptions: During the audit period, the construction company redeemed 50% of the outstanding stock owned by the client and 50% of the stock owned by the client’s son, leaving each with the same ownership percentage of 50%. The IRS treated the redemption as a distribution under Section 301 of the IRC.
  • Rental loss: The rental loss results from a building leased to the construction company owned by the client and his son.

Use the Internet to research the rules and income tax laws regarding unreasonable compensation, stock redemptions treated as dividends, and related party losses. Be sure to use the six (6) step tax research process in Chapter 1 that was demonstrated in Appendix A of your textbook as a guide for your written response.

Write a three page paper in which you:

  1. Based on your research and the facts stated in the scenario, prepare a recommendation for the client in which you advise either acceptance of the proposed adjustments or further appeal of the issue based on the potential for prevailing on appeal.
  2. Create a tax plan for the future redemption of the client’s stock owned in the construction company that will not be taxed according to Section 301 of the IRC.
  3. Propose a strategy for the client to receive similar amounts in compensation in the future and avoid the taxation as a constructive dividend.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
  • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Analyze and research tax issues regarding corporations, partnerships, S corporations, and consolidated tax returns distributions, or other corporate levies.
  • Create client, internal, and administrative documents that appropriately convey the results of tax research and planning.
  • Create an approach to tax research that results in credible and current resources.

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Introduction

A proposed adjustments notice is issued to a corporation, a person or a natural who
according to the internal revenue service is deemed to have grossly violated rules laid down by
the NPA. To avoid more sanctions, the firm or the individual who has been served with the
notice should respond within the laid down permissible time duration. There is many issues that
NPA may suggest to a firm or individual about tax and financial handling. The corporation to
which such suggestions have been issued may not be forced to comply, but it is crucial for
purposes of putting in place a good rapport and for purposes of easing future reporting to the
revenue authority. According to 26 US Code 317, the IRC is out to bring more clarity to stock
redemption (IRS, 2015). It captures a process in which a company stock can be acquired in a
property exchange. Concerning 26 US Code 302, stock redemption is not put under
consideration equally before and after a shareholder gains ownership of 50% or more of the total
company voting power. As a result, the amount paid in an effort of acquiring the stock is not
treated as part of stock redemption (Patrick, 2013). This paper aims at providing the necessary
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