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One of the fastest growing home based businesses is pet care. Another planning opportunity for partnership-owned life insurance deals with buy-sell agreements. Buy-sell agreements for corporations with more than two shareholders create several potential problems. First, with the popular cross-purchase or wait-and-see buy-sell agreement (so that the surviving shareholders receive a stepped-up basis in their shares and a C corporation avoids paying the Alternative Minimum Tax), either a trusteed buy-sell business plan arrangement must be used or multiple policies must be purchased (i.e., each shareholder must own a policy on each other shareholder’s life). For example, with four shareholders, you would need 12 policies. Second, a transfer-for-value may occur at the death of a shareholder as the deceased shareholder’s interests in the surviving shareholders’ policies are purchased by the surviving shareholders. If so, a portion of the insurance proceeds will be subject to income taxes. IRC Section 101(a)(2).