Exempt Organizations Technical Guide›TG 65: Excise Taxes - Excess Benefit Transactions - IRC Section 4958›Table of Contents
Fair Market Value
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(1) In determining the value of economic benefits, the value of property, including the
right to use property, is its fair market value. See Treas. Reg. 53.4958-4(b)(1)(i).
(2) Treas. Reg. 53.4958-4(b)(1)(i) defines fair market value as:
a. The price at which property, or the right to use property, would change hands
between a willing buyer and a willing seller,
b. Neither being under any compulsion to buy, sell or transfer property or the
right to use property, and
c. Both having reasonable knowledge of relevant facts.
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