Estate of Artemus D. Davis, Deceased, Robert D. Davis, Personal Representative - Page 29

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              Although Mr. Pratt recognized in his expert report that as of           
          the valuation date it would have been possible for ADDI&C to                
          convert to an S corporation, he did not consider conversion to S            
          corporation status to be likely as of that date for several                 
          reasons.  First, according to Mr. Pratt, it is improper to assume,          
          as respondent does, that ADDI&C would have been able to make an S           
          corporation election.  That is because such an assumption would             
          have impermissibly limited the hypothetical willing buyer of each           
          of the two blocks of stock at issue to certain individuals and              
          entities who were permitted as of the valuation date to be                  
          shareholders of an S corporation, see sec. 1361(b)(1)(B) and (C),           
          thereby improperly excluding as a hypothetical willing buyer of             
          each such block, for example, a C corporation, see sec.                     
          1361(b)(1)(B).  In addition, Mr. Pratt believes that the                    
          assumption by respondent that none of ADDI&C’s assets would be              
          sold for 10 years would have reduced the marketability of each              
          block of ADDI&C stock at issue, and such a requirement would have           
          made it unlikely that ADDI&C’s stockholders would have consented            
          to an S corporation election.  Mr. Pratt also notes that section            
          1362(d)(3) could be a problem for an investment company, like               
          ADDI&C, unless ADDI&C were to retain its cattle operations or               
          engage in some other operating business that generated                      
          substantially more gross income than the passive income generated           
          by ADDI&C's other assets.  That is because pursuant to section              
          1362(d)(3) an otherwise valid S corporation election will be                




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