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arm's length
(redirected from Arm's Length Transaction)

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Noun1.arm's length - a distance sufficient to exclude intimacyarm's length - a distance sufficient to exclude intimacy
distance, length - size of the gap between two places; "the distance from New York to Chicago"; "he determined the length of the shortest line segment joining the two points"


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First, under IRC 2703 a buy-sell price between family members will be disregarded and the business will be estate-taxed at fair market value (FMV) unless the agreement meets the comparability test: a) it must be a bona fide business arrangement, b) it must not be a device to pass the business interest to members of the decedent's family for less than adequate consideration, and c) the terms must be comparable to similar arrangements made by unrelated parties in an arm's length transaction.
In this case, Insilco proved at trial that Star was insolvent at the time of the transfer, that the transfer was less than an arm's length transaction, made in bad faith, and that the consideration for the transfer was grossly inadequate.
The court said there was no dispute that the Newman sale was the result of an arm's length transaction.
 
 
 
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