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McGraw-Hill's Taxation of Business Entities 3rd Edition by Connie Weaver, Brian Spilker, Edmund Outslay, John Robinson, Ronald Worsham, Benjamin Ayers, John Barrick

Edition 3ISBN: 9780077924522
book McGraw-Hill's Taxation of Business Entities 3rd Edition by Connie Weaver, Brian Spilker, Edmund Outslay, John Robinson, Ronald Worsham, Benjamin Ayers, John Barrick cover

McGraw-Hill's Taxation of Business Entities 3rd Edition by Connie Weaver, Brian Spilker, Edmund Outslay, John Robinson, Ronald Worsham, Benjamin Ayers, John Barrick

Edition 3ISBN: 9780077924522
Exercise 32
Melissa, Nicole, and Ben are equal partners in the Opto partnership (calendar year-end). Melissa decides she wants to exit the partnership and receives a proportionate distribution to liquidate her partnership interest on January 1. The partnership has no liabilities and holds the following assets as of January 1:
Melissa, Nicole, and Ben are equal partners in the Opto partnership (calendar year-end). Melissa decides she wants to exit the partnership and receives a proportionate distribution to liquidate her partnership interest on January 1. The partnership has no liabilities and holds the following assets as of January 1:    Melissa receives one-third of each of the partnership assets. She has a basis in her partnership interest of $25,000.  a. What is the amount and character of any recognized gain or loss to Melissa   b. What is Melissa's basis in the distributed assets   c. What are the tax implications (amount and character of gain or loss and basis of assets) to Melissa if her outside basis is $11,000 rather than $25,000   d. What is the amount and character of any recognized gain or loss from the distribution to Opto Melissa receives one-third of each of the partnership assets. She has a basis in her partnership interest of $25,000.
a. What is the amount and character of any recognized gain or loss to Melissa
b. What is Melissa's basis in the distributed assets
c. What are the tax implications (amount and character of gain or loss and basis of assets) to Melissa if her outside basis is $11,000 rather than $25,000
d. What is the amount and character of any recognized gain or loss from the distribution to Opto
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