installment sale

installment sale
n.
A contract in which a consumer purchases an item and receives it at once but pays for it over a period of time in installments.

The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. . 2008.


installment sale
A sale where the purchaser of an asset or business pays the seller over several years. This allows the capital gain, and thus the capital gains tax, to be spread over several years rather than all be in the year of the sale.
Category: Business, LLCs & Corporations → Buying or Selling a Business

Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary. . 2009.


installment sale
n. A contract for the sale of goods such as furniture, in which the purchaser makes periodic payments and the seller retains a security interest in the goods until paid in full.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary. . 2000.

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