bailout stock

Nontaxable preferred stock issued to stockholders as a dividend.

• Bailout stock is issued to gain favorable tax rates by distributing corporate earnings at capital gains rates rather than by distributing dividends at ordinary income rates. This practice is now prohibited by the Internal Revenue Code. IRC (26 USCA)§ 306.

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