Stripped Preferred Stock If the dividend rights are stripped from certain preferred stock,the holder of the stripped preferred stock may have to include amountsin income equal to the amounts that would have been included if thestock were a bond with original issue discount (OID). Stripped preferred stock defined.Stripped preferred stock is any stock that meets both of thefollowing tests. There has been a separation in ownership between the stockand any dividend on the stock that has not become payable. The stock: Is limited and preferred as to dividends, Does not participate in corporate growth to any significantextent, and Has a fixed redemption price. Treatment of buyer.If you buy stripped preferred stock after April 30, 1993, you mustinclude certain amounts in your gross income while you hold the stock.These amounts are ordinary income. They are equal to the amounts youwould have included in gross income if the stock were a bond that: Was issued on the purchase date of the stock, and Has OID equal to: The redemption price for the stock, minus The price at which you bought the stock. Report these amounts as other income on line 21 of Form 1040.For information about OID, see Original Issue Discount (OID),earlier. This treatment also applies to you if you acquire the stock in sucha way (for example, by gift) that your basis in the stock isdetermined by using a buyer's basis. Treatment of person stripping stock.You are treated as having purchased stripped preferred stock ifyou: Strip the rights to one or more dividends from stock thatmeets test (2) under Stripped preferred stock defined,earlier, and Dispose of those dividend rights after April 30,1993. You are treated as making the purchase on the date you disposedof the dividend rights. Your adjusted basis in the stripped preferredstock is treated as your purchase price. The rules described inTreatment of buyer, earlier, apply to you.