by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Court Rulings, Valuations
Lucero v. United States The taxpayer sued the federal government for a refund, arguing she had overpaid income taxes on stock she had received as part of settling a lawsuit against her former employer. She initially relied on the value in the settlement agreement but...
by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Court Rulings, Valuations
Lysengen v. Argent Trust Co. This proposed ESOP class action featured familiar claims against the trustee and several individual defendants. In her complaint, the plaintiff alleged the trustee violated ERISA by allowing the plan to overpay for company stock and by...
by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Court Rulings, Valuations
The Indiana Court of Appeals and the South Carolina Supreme Court recently issued noteworthy rulings on the appropriateness of discounts in valuing minority interests. The contexts in which the issue arose were different, but, in both cases, there was a compelled sale...
by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Court Rulings, IRS Regulation, Valuations
Grieve v. Commissioner In a gift tax dispute, the U.S. Tax Court recently found for the taxpayer when it rejected the unusual reasoning and methodology the Internal Revenue Service’s trial expert proposed to keep low the discounts applicable to the nonvoting...
by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Court Rulings, Valuations
Robinson v. Langenbach Context is “crucial,” the Supreme Court of Missouri recently said in upholding the use of discounts in the court-ordered buyout of a minority owner’s shares in a family business. At the same time, the court acknowledged that, “usually,” the...
by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Court Rulings, Divorce Litigation, Valuations
Horne-Ballard v. Ballard About two years ago, in Rohling v. Rohling, an Alabama appeals court upheld a trial court’s decision to admit into evidence a qualified expert’s estimate about the value of the owner spouse’s business based on a calculation engagement....
