O — "Operating Expenses" to "Owner Defined"

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Operating Expenses

Operating Losses

Options

Grantors right of first refusal, effect of

To capitalize

To cut

Ordinary Income

From sales of

Qualification for self-employment tax

Outright Sale - Capital Gain v. Ordinary Income

Generally

Culled trees

Cut-over timberland

Cutting Contracts

Disposals with a retained economic interest

Economic interest, retention of precluding outright sale

Equipment

Factors to be considered

Holding Period

Liquidation of timber holdings

Netting of gains and losses

Nursery Stock

"Primarily for sale" discussed

Property purchased for resale

Property used in trade or business

Sale to related business entity

Stumps

Timber

Timber Contracts

Timberland

Owner Defined

Generally

Annual growth, ownership of

Conditional vendee as owner

Date of acquiring ownership/contract right to cut

Effect of agreement to resell timber to the grantor of timberlands

Effect of prior disposal

Effect of pre-arranged transfer

Factual question

Local law

Proprietary interest requirement

Rev. Rul. 77-247
Varn

not necessary for "ownership" under Section 631(a)

not necessary for "ownership" under Section 631(b)

1939 and 1986 Code provisions compared