Key Takeaways. Inventory is the raw materials used to produce goods as well as the goods that are available for sale. It is classified as a current asset on a company's balance sheet.
The seller usually seeks to maximize amounts allocated to assets that will result in capital gains tax while minimizing amounts allocated to assets that will result in ordinary income taxes.
The Inventory Asset account setup would generally look as follows. The Account Type is Other Current Assets. The Detail Type is Inventory. The Name can be anything you would like to assign.
Class III: Accounts receivables, mortgages, and credit card receivables. Class IV: Inventory. Class V: All assets not in classes I – IV, VI, and VII (equipment, land, building) Class VI: Section 197 intangibles, except goodwill and going concern.
There are four different top-level inventory types: raw materials, work-in-progress (WIP), merchandise and supplies, and finished goods. These four main categories help businesses classify and track items that are in stock or that they might need in the future.
In simple terms you can say that acquisition is an act of one company taking over or acquiring another company's controlling interest. This can be done either by buying assets of that company or buying shares or stocks of the company.
For the target, a stock sale is usually a nonevent from a tax perspective. The buyer in a stock sale does not get a step-up in tax basis in the assets that comprise the target company, and thus is not able to increase their depreciation and amortization deductions in the same way as in an asset sale.
Form 8949 is required for anyone who sells or exchanges a capital asset, such as stocks, land, or artwork. It tracks both short-term and long-term transactions, with different tax implications for each.