{"id":15882,"date":"2010-05-27T05:55:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T09:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=15882"},"modified":"2010-05-27T05:55:41","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T09:55:41","slug":"higher-tax-on-buyout-firm-managers-would-hit-hedge-fund-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2010\/higher-tax-on-buyout-firm-managers-would-hit-hedge-fund-sales.html","title":{"rendered":"Higher Tax on Buyout Firm Managers Would Hit Hedge Fund Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Private-equity firms, trying to derail  legislation that would boost taxes on their leaders\u2019 pay, are attacking a  provision that would make it more costly for executives to sell their  own management firms.<\/p>\n<p>The provision, which also would affect operators  of hedge funds, would make executives pay ordinary income tax rates on  profits from selling a stake in their own management companies. Founders  of other types of businesses would remain eligible to pay lower  capital-gains rates when they sell. The House is scheduled to vote on  the legislation today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-05-27\/higher-tax-on-buyout-firm-managers-would-hit-hedge-fund-sales.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Private-equity firms, trying to derail legislation that would boost taxes on their leaders\u2019 pay, are attacking a provision that would make it more costly for executives to sell their own management firms. The provision, which also would affect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15883,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15882\/revisions\/15883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}