Tax Management Portfolio, Corporate Liquidations, No. 784-3rd, analyses the tax considerations in connection with the liquidation of a corporation. The principal focus of the Portfolio is on liquidations after the repeal of the General Utilities doctrine by the Tax Reform Act of 1986. The gain is passed through to the shareholder and has to be reported on his tax return.

Addressing liquidations of subsidiaries under §332 (where the parent corporation owns at least 80% of the stock of the subsidiary) as well as liquidations of corporations that do not qualify under §332, the Portfolio considers the tax consequences to both the liquidating corporation and its shareholders. D., The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law; LL. Taxation, Georgetown University Law Center; Former Law Clerk to Hon.

These shareholder assets have tax bases which may change regularly as a result of corporate events.

The beginning basis for stock is the amount the shareholder invested to obtain the stock.

The proposals list an ordering rule for the adjustment, either increases or decreases, of stock basis.

They also include provisions on the timing of basis adjustments, basis computations during a loss year, computation of individual stock basis and the categorization of debt as basis.