Restricted Securities And Illiquidity Discounts

Tax cases offering guidance on the valuation of restricted securities are few and far between. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in its 1998 McClatchy decision¹ treated the shares of an affiliate decedent as restricted shares, regardless of the date-of-death transfer to a nonaffiliate estate, but didn't say how to determine the size of the illiquidity discount necessitated by the restrictions. Then, right before the end of 2006, the Tax Court in Gimbel