Darryl,a Cash Basis Taxpayer,gave 1,000 Shares of Copper Company Common

Darryl,a cash basis taxpayer,gave 1,000 shares of Copper Company common stock to his daughter on September 29,2015.Copper Company is a publicly held company that has declared a $2.00 per share dividend on September 30th every year for the last 20 years.Just as Darryl had expected,Copper Company declared a $2.00 per share dividend on September 30th,payable on October 15th,to stockholders of record as of October 10th.The daughter received the $2,000 dividend on October 18,2015.

A) The daughter must recognize the income because she owned the stock when the dividend was declared and she received the $2,000.
B) Darryl must recognize the income of $2,000 because the purpose of the gift was to avoid taxes.
C) Darryl must recognize $1,500 of the dividend because he owned the stock for three-fourths of the year.
D) Darryl must recognize the $2,000 dividend as his income because he constructively received the dividend.
E) None of these.