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ASKramer Law

Tax-Loss Harvesting Part III: Investment Strategies

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Taxpayers invest to make money and hope to earn a decent return on their investments. Tax-loss harvesting can be used as part of a taxpayer’s overall investment strategy without affecting investment  returns, while offsetting...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Tax Court Calls Bluff on Hedge Fund’s Basket Option Contracts

The Tax Court recently held that a hedge fund’s basket option contracts were in substance tax ownership of the underlying basket securities. The hedge fund, through its affiliated entities, entered into 10 basket option...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Vindication: The U.S. Tax Court Sustains IRS Position on Basket Options in GWA, LLC

In Advice Memorandum 2010-005, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) set out its position that “basket options” conveyed so many attributes of ownership over the securities referenced in these options to the optionee that the...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 8.22.2019 | Top Story: CBO Projects $1 Trillion Annual US Deficit in 2020

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The CBO sent shivers down the spines of deficit hawks yesterday with its latest forecast that shows federal cost overruns hitting $1 trillion for fiscal 2020, an increase of more than $100 billion from projections just 3...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

U.S. PFIC Taxation Exemption to be Narrowed?

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The last 15 years have seen the advent of a new reinsurance platform, where hedge funds have sponsored non-U.S. reinsurers, who in turn invest their capital in the sponsoring hedge funds. While there are business rationales...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Private Equity and Hedge Fund Managers Take Caution - Proposed Treasury Regulations Threaten Management Fee Waivers

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On July 23, 2015, the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") issued long-awaited proposed regulations discussing the taxation of management fee arrangements commonly used by private equity funds and their management. The proposed...more

Morgan Lewis

IRS Issues Notices Regarding Certain Structured Transactions

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Parties that enter into “basket option contracts” and “basket contracts” should be aware that the IRS is likely to challenge such transactions and that they have a new obligation to report the transactions to the IRS or face...more

Carlton Fields

IRS Proposes Regulations Directed To “Passive” Hedge Fund Foreign Insurance Entities

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On April 24, 2015, the Internal Revenue Service proposed regulations directed to “situations in which a hedge fund establishes a purported foreign reinsurance company in order to defer and reduce the tax that otherwise would...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Legal Alert: Camping on "The Street": A First Step in the Reform of the Taxation of Financial Instruments and Products

On January 24, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Camp (R-MI) released a discussion draft of proposals to reform the taxation of certain financial instruments and products (the Camp Draft). In brief, the Camp Draft: ...more

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