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  • John of PA
    Senior Member
    • Jul 2005
    • 1104

    #1

    Business sale broker fee

    Client is selling their C Corp business (selling the stock). They will be paying the broker about 100,000 for the broker fee at settlement. Can the C Corp deduct this broker fee on it's final return filed by the old owners. (or is it only a personal deduction by the shareholders)?
  • taxmandan
    Senior Member
    • Oct 2005
    • 1037

    #2
    Selling stock

    If it is the sale of shares in the company, it would be a personal sale by the shareholders, thus belongs on their personal 1040 not on the corporate return.
    "A man that holds a cat by the tail learns something he can learn no other way." - Mark Twain

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    • jimmcg
      Senior Member
      • Aug 2005
      • 633

      #3
      jim mcg

      Sounds like a personal sale of stock to me. Reported on Sch D with the fee shown as a transaction cost as in any sale of stock

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      • JON
        Senior Member
        • Jul 2005
        • 1265

        #4
        What final reurn???

        If it is a stock sale the corporation keeps going.. No final return...

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        • John of PA
          Senior Member
          • Jul 2005
          • 1104

          #5
          Short Year Return

          Thanks for the above post, which I tend to agree with them all. Client is taling about a short year return; howvever my understanding is that only applies to pass through entities and not C Corps. Agree?

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