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I am organizing a stock purchase for myself and my family. I am purchasing shares from a former employee of a company which is expected to go public soon.
The company has approved our stock sale and now the questions for me are this:
1) What is the best(easiest and legal) method for handling this type of transaction ?
a) I have a stock purchase agreement with my name and the seller's name on it. I am considering adding to the agreement, stock distribution instructions so that the company has on file the names of my family members and the # of shares to distribute to each person. I believe this would mean that each person would be responsible for their own tax consequences.
I hope then the company will give these instructions to the transfer agent who will then assign the shares to each person at the appropriate time. Thus, I would avoid the possible tax burden of doing the transfers from my personal account. Do you know of a company and transfer agent can even provide this ?
b)The alternative is a simple partnership but I would rather not get too legaleze if possible.
c) Having my family give me their money and I invest on their behalf from my account,and transfer the shares back to their accounts after I receive all of the shares back to my account. Any downside of doing this ? I know there is a 12 K gifting limit and the transfers of stock would be well above this.What is the name of your state?What is the name of your state?
Thank you for your input.
I am organizing a stock purchase for myself and my family. I am purchasing shares from a former employee of a company which is expected to go public soon.
The company has approved our stock sale and now the questions for me are this:
1) What is the best(easiest and legal) method for handling this type of transaction ?
a) I have a stock purchase agreement with my name and the seller's name on it. I am considering adding to the agreement, stock distribution instructions so that the company has on file the names of my family members and the # of shares to distribute to each person. I believe this would mean that each person would be responsible for their own tax consequences.
I hope then the company will give these instructions to the transfer agent who will then assign the shares to each person at the appropriate time. Thus, I would avoid the possible tax burden of doing the transfers from my personal account. Do you know of a company and transfer agent can even provide this ?
b)The alternative is a simple partnership but I would rather not get too legaleze if possible.
c) Having my family give me their money and I invest on their behalf from my account,and transfer the shares back to their accounts after I receive all of the shares back to my account. Any downside of doing this ? I know there is a 12 K gifting limit and the transfers of stock would be well above this.What is the name of your state?What is the name of your state?
Thank you for your input.