Virginia Corporation is a calendar-year corporation. At the beginning of 2019, its election to be taxed as an S corporation became effective. Virginia Corp.s balance sheet at the end of 2018 reflected the following assets (it did not have any earnings and profits from its prior years as a C corporation).

During 2019, Virginia Corp. sold inventory it owned at the beginning of the year for $100,000. The basis of the inventory sold was $55,000.