Just for the record though, I didn't check pub 17 or any Intuit tutorials before providing that answer 😀

Thanks Iron Man. From what I read it appears that sales that are NOT reported under the installment method are the sale of stock or Securities traded on an established Securities Market. Therefore that leads me to believe that privately held stock that is not publicly traded is eligible for installment sale treatment. The stock is not qualified small business stock as it was originally issued before August 10th 1993.

Your beliefs agree with my beliefs -------- can you believe that?

maybe we are related from way back in the old country. 

We are probably long lost cousins -------- 562 times removed.

Take one of those ancestry DNA tests and you will see you have distant cousins everywhere.

Yeah, I did the ancestry.com thing about 5 years ago.  I had a " bohunk cousin" down in Texas contact me shortly afterwards that is really into the ancestral history.  He took my DNA info and also got me hooked up with another ancestry website so he could do more research on the family.  That website e-mails me almost weekly with new DNA matches but those matches seem to be more of my Scandinavian side because those e-mails tell me of new matches with, Sven, Ole, and Lena.

Yes vote from me too.   I've done an SCorp stock sale on installment sale method.

@dkh @IRonMaN Thanks again for your help. Was just discussing possible sale of a client's business, and found this from 2023. Many small businesses are not too thrilled when they find out how much tax they have to pay when they sell their businesses, but it is what it is. Thanks.