All the following statements concerning the use of an insured corporate cross-purchase buy-sell agreement are correct EXCEPT:

A. The value of any life insurance policies the deceased owned on the lives of the other stockholders will be included in his or her gross estate.

B. The buy-out will not involve dividend distributions to the deceased’s estate or his or her family.

C. It is preferred over the redemption-type agreement when the stockholders are all in a higher tax bracket than the corporation.

D. The surviving stockholders get an increase in their basis for income tax purposes.

E. It produces greater equity of results than a redemption-type agreement when there is a significant difference in the ages of the stockholders and in their percentages of stock ownership.