The Buyer's Receipt Model for the Tax Consequences of the Assumption of Liabilities in Asset Purchases
50 Pages Posted: 20 Oct 2007
Date Written: 1991
Abstract
This paper offers an approach to taxing liability assumptions made in the context of taxable aquisitions of the assets of ongoing businesses. It suggests that the buyer be viewed as having received a payment from the seller to cover the expected value of the assumed liabilities and to compensate for the risk involved in the assumption. More importantly, the paper highlights the fact that it will be impossible to assign a value to the assets transferred without taking into account the tax treatment to be given to the assumed liabilities.
This paper was widely circulated in 1991.
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Crane, Charlotte, The Buyer's Receipt Model for the Tax Consequences of the Assumption of Liabilities in Asset Purchases (1991). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1023062 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1023062
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