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42 Tax L. Rev. 1 (1986-1987)
The Time Value of Money Rules

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I. BAsic CONCEPTS OF THE TIME VALUE OF MONEY ............. 10
A. Interest Expressed or Implied in Every Deferred Payment
Transaction  .........................................  11
B. Compounding of Interest ..............................  13
C. Constant Interest Method ..............................  15
D.  Present Values  ......................................  15
E. Counting Conventions  ................................  18
IL ORIGINAL IssuE DISCOUNT ................................. 20
A. Introductory  ........................................  20
B. Debt Instrument .....................................  21
C.  Issue  Price  .........................................  22
1. Publicly Offered Instruments Issued for Cash ............ 22
2. Other Instruments Issued for Cash .................... 23
3. Instruments Issued in Exchanges Involving Publicly Traded
Securities  ........................................  26
4. Other Instruments Issued in Sales and Exchanges of
Property  .........................................  28
5. Investment Units Including Debt Instruments ........... 29
6. Obligations Issued in Reorganizations .................. 30
a. Issue  Price  ....................................  30
b. Collateral Consequences ..........................  34
7. Issue Price of Corporate Obligations Distributed to
Shareholders  .....................................  35
D. Stated Redemption Price at Maturity ..................... 37
1. Qualified Periodic Interest  ..........................  37
2. Payments Other Than Qualified Periodic Interest ........ 40
E. Original Issue Discount (OlD) .......................... 41
F. Other Definitions and Concepts ......................... 42
1. Issue  Date  .......................................  42
2. Issue and Aggregation Rules ....................... 42
G. OID Accruals on Obligations Issued After July 1, 1982 ...... 43
1. Introductory  .....................................  43
2. Identifying the Taxpayers ..........................  45
3. Accrual Period ...................................  45
4. Adjusted  Issue Price  ..............................  48
5. Yield  to  Maturity .................................  48
a.  Generally .....................................  48
b. Instruments Subject to Puts and Calls .............. 50
6. Periodical Accruals  ...............................  52
a.  Generally  ....................................  52
b. Short Periods  .................................  53
(1)  Generally  .................................  53
(2) Preissue Accruals of Stated Interest ............ 55
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