The 2017 Tax Act creates new opportunities for asset sales, particularly for sellers of businesses that are carried on in corporate form. Whenever a business owned by a corporation is sold, the parties have to negotiate whether the transaction will be structured as an asset sale or a stock sale. For tax purposes, asset sale treatment is generally more attractive to a buyer and may induce a buyer to pay a premium over what it would pay for a stock purchase. Conversely, an asset sale will usually trigger higher tax expense to the seller.  Prior to the recent tax law… Read more