They get paid promptly through a bank loan collateralized by the receivable.

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Under these proposed regulations, in the event a related party loan is converted into a loan between the shareholder and the loss S corporation for example, where the lending corporation distributes the receivable to the shareholder then the transaction would create loan basis to the shareholder.

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