Cavallaro v. Commissioner

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September 17, 2014
3599 Industrial and Commercial Machinery and Equipment, NEC
332710 Machine Shops
estate and gift taxation
income approach, normalization, discounted cash flow (DCF), gift tax, market approach, merger, s corporation, estate planning, sic code, comparable, reasonable cause, valuation

Cavallaro v. Commissioner
2014 Tax Ct. Memo LEXIS 189
US
Federal Court
Federal
United States Tax Court
Timothy Maio, Ernst & Young; John Murphy, Atlantic Management Co. (petitioners); Marc Bello, Edelstein & Co. (IRS/respondent)
Gustafson

Summary

Taxpayer parents incurred gift tax liability when, based on improper valuations, they agreed to merge their S corp. with their sons’ S corp. and accepted an unduly low interest in the new company while sons received an unduly high interest, Tax Court says ...
Cavallaro v. Commissioner
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