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IRS Rejects Yahoo's Tax-Free Alibaba Spin-off Request, Sending Stocks Down 4%

IRS declined to bless Yahoo's planned tax-free Alibaba spin-off, sending its shares down about 4%. According to Business Insider, Yahoo owns 384 million shares of Chinese tech giant Alibaba, which is worth $23 billion. Yahoo plans to turn that into a separate company with its small-business unit in a tax-free transaction that allows it to give much of the value back to Yahoo shareholders. However, IRS declined to grant Yahoo's request. It doesn't mean the IRS rejected Yahoo's plan directly. IRS is simply telling Yahoo it can't be too confident about the approval of the deal.

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