On June 2, 2020, the Tax Court issued its opinion in Sage v. Commissioner (154 T.C. No. 12). The issue presented in Sage v. Commissioner was whether the petitioner, who wholly owned an S corporation and LLC, which in turn owned (indirectly) and transferred three encumbered properties to separate liquidating trusts that disposed of the parcels with the profits going to pay off the liabilities of the S corporation and LLC, was the owner/grantor of