When a corporation is bought by another company for cash it is referred to as a cash merger. It is fully taxable as an outright sale. The acquiring company makes a tender offer to all shareholders of the target company. If enough shareholders accept and other conditions of the tender offer are met, the cash merger goes to closing and every shareholder receives their sales proceeds on the same day.
You can use our cash merger calculator to verify the sales proceeds you received on recent cash mergers and to calculate your capital gain or loss. You can also input your own data.
If you know of other cash merger transactions, please e-mail the details to us at webmaster@costbasis.com so that we can include it in our free database for the benefit of all users.
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