Exam 11: Property Dispositions

A taxpayer that receives boot in a like-kind exchange resulting in a gain recognizes as gain the lesser of the fair market value of the boot received or the gain realized.

Boot is not like-kind property involved in a like-kind exchange.

Alpha sold machinery, which it used in its business, to Beta, a related entity, for $40,000. Beta used the machinery in its business. Alpha bought the machinery a few years ago for $50,000 and has claimed $30,000 of depreciation expense. What is the amount and character of Alpha's gain?

Gainesville LLC sold the following business assets during the current year: (1) machinery, $20,000 cost basis, $4,000 depreciation, proceeds $22,000; (2) automobile, $15,000 cost basis, $12,000 depreciation, proceeds $7,000; (3) equipment, $15,000 cost basis, $10,000 depreciation, proceeds $4,000; (4) computer equipment, $35,000 cost basis, $16,000 depreciation, proceeds $15,000; (5) Winchester had unrecaptured §1231 losses of $5,000 in the prior 5 years. What is the amount and character of Winchester's gains and losses before the 1231 netting process?

Which of the following is not True regarding §1239?

Which of the following is not True regarding an asset's adjusted basis?

Andrew, an individual, began business four years ago and has never sold a §1231 asset. Andrew owned each of the assets for several years. In the current year, Andrew sold the following business assets: Assuming Andrew's marginal ordinary income tax rate is 32 percent, what is the character of the gains and losses and what affect do they have on Andrew's tax liability?

The adjusted basis is the cost basis less cost recovery deductions.

Koch traded machine 1 for machine 2 when the fair market value of both machines was $50,000. Koch originally purchased machine 1 for $75,000 and machine 1's adjusted basis was $40,000 at the time of the exchange. Machine 2's seller purchased it for $65,000 and machine 2's adjusted basis was $55,000 at the time of the exchange. What is Koch's adjusted basis in machine 2 after the exchange?

Depreciation recapture changes both the amount and character of a gain.