Tag Archives: middle-class-taxpayers
Auction Of Hedge Fund Manager’s Former House Brings To Mind Troubled U.S. Economy
Hartford Courant – Michael Lauer’s estate in the prestigious backcountry neighborhood of this wealthy town looks almost as troubled as the U.S. economy. The grounds are overgrown with waist-high weeds. A pool cover is filled with filthy, stagnant water. Inside, […]
Senate report: Investment banks helped foreigners evade millions in US stock dividend taxes
Los Angeles Times – Big Wall Street investment banks have designed and marketed schemes enabling non-U.S. taxpayers, including offshore hedge funds, to evade millions of dollars in taxes each year on U.S. stock dividends, Senate investigators have found. Some banks […]
Lehman, UBS Among Firms Involved in Tax Dodge, U.S. Probe Says
Bloomberg – Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., UBS AG and Merrill Lynch & Co. are among Wall Street firms that concocted derivatives and stock-loan deals to help offshore hedge funds dodge hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. taxes, according to […]
Recent Tax Rulings Affecting Hedge Funds
The Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) has recently issued new rulings and regulations that have an impact on tax filings by many hedge funds. The new rulings deal with the deduction of investment interest expense for trading funds and fund-level expenses […]
