"Harold and Maude are married and live in a common-law state. Neither has made any taxable gifts and Maude owns (holds title to) all their property. She dies with a taxable estate of $25 million and leaves it all to Harold. He dies several years later, leaving the entire $25 million to their three children. (Refer to Exhibit 25-1 and Exhibit 25-2.)"

rural residential development company and suburban real estate corporation form a joint stock company. the longest duration a joint stock company can be formed for is

Down under products, ltd., of australia has budgeted sales of its popular boomerang for the next four months as follows: unit salesapril 74,000may 85,000june 114,000july 92,000the company is now in the process of preparing a production budget for the second quarter. past experience has shown that end-of-month inventory levels must equal 10% of the following month’s unit sales. the inventory at the end of march was 7,400 units. required: prepare a production budget by month and in total, for the second quarter.

The stock of grommet corporation, a u. s. company, is publicly traded, with no single shareholder owning more than 5 percent of its outstanding stock. grommet owns 95 percent of the outstanding stock of staple inc., also a u. s. company. staple owns 100 percent of the outstanding stock of clip corporation, a canadian company. grommet and clip each own 50 percent of the outstanding stock of fastener inc., a u. s. company. grommet and staple each own 50 percent of the outstanding stock of binder corporation, a u. s. company. which of these corporations form an affiliated group eligible to file a consolidated tax return?