Section 351 Exchange

Treasury Scrutiny of Tax-Aware ETF Strategies and What It Means for Section 351 Exchanges

Treasury and IRS Put Certain “Tax-Aware” Financial Product Strategies on Notice

Treasury and the IRS have put certain tax-aware financial product strategies on notice. A recent Perkins Coie panel moderated by Mohsen Ghazi, with partners Sharon Kim and Vivek Chandrasekhar, walked through what that scrutiny actually covers. The short version is that ordinary ETF activity and ordinary tax loss harvesting are not the target. Stacked structures … Read more

The Guardrails That Decide Who Gets to Access the $5.0 Trillion Market

Guardrails That Decide Who Gets to Access the $5.0 Trillion Market

ExchangiFi’s new white paper sizes the Section 351 conversion opportunity at an estimated $5.0 trillion. The number gets the attention. The compliance architecture decides who can actually use it. Section 351’s nonrecognition treatment is conditional, and the conditions are unforgiving. The central obstacle is Section 351(e). To stop investors from pooling concentrated stock into instant … Read more

Section 351 ETF Exchanges: The Complete Legal and Tax Framework

legal framework of Section 351 ETF exchanges

Here is a comprehensive list of the legal authorities, statutes, regulations, rulings, cases, and doctrines that support and govern the legality of a Section 351 exchange of securities into an ETF: Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Statutes The foundation of the tax-deferred conversion relies on specific sections of the IRC governing corporate formations and investment companies: … Read more