IRS Can Sometimes Collect Corporate Tax From Former Shareholders
The shareholders of Little Salt were not alone in being caught by double taxation from a corporate asset sale. It seems that people not paying attention or thinking ahead in 1986 were legion. I shake my head and feel sad, but the people who founded MidCoast Investments, Inc. saw opportunity. They offered shareholders of companies a great deal. After the asset sale when all that was left in the company was money in the bank and an obligation to pay corporate income tax, they would buy the company from you.
A Cheer And A Half For Meritocracy
The system is rigged in favor of anyone who excels at getting her or himself educated to the graduate degree level and then working hard for decades. See, e.g., Barack...
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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.