The Tax Court properly sustained the IRS’s determination that like-kind exchanges with sale and lease-back transactions were loans. Applying the substance-over-form doctrine, the court had held that the taxpayer had failed to acquire a genuine ownership interest in the plants and, therefore, was not entitled to like-kind-exchange treatment, or to its claimed tax deductions. The […]
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