{"id":16094,"date":"2010-06-08T05:36:33","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T09:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=16094"},"modified":"2010-06-08T05:36:33","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T09:36:33","slug":"lampert%e2%80%99s-829-million-payout-may-shield-him-from-tax-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2010\/lampert%e2%80%99s-829-million-payout-may-shield-him-from-tax-increase.html","title":{"rendered":"Lampert\u2019s $829 Million Payout May Shield Him From Tax Increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Billionaire Edward Lampert may have  found a way to shield himself from millions of dollars in taxes under  legislation that would raise levies on profits at private- equity firms.<\/p>\n<p>ESL Partners LP, the Greenwich, Connecticut,  hedge fund Lampert started more than 20 years ago, and affiliates  distributed about $829 million of stock in Sears Holdings Corp.,  AutoNation Inc. and AutoZone Inc. to him on June 2, according to  regulatory filings. The fund is scheduled to transfer more shares in the  retailers to Lampert by the end of July.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-06-08\/lampert-s-829-million-payout-may-shield-him-from-tax-increase.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Billionaire Edward Lampert may have found a way to shield himself from millions of dollars in taxes under legislation that would raise levies on profits at private- equity firms. ESL Partners LP, the Greenwich, Connecticut, hedge fund Lampert [&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-16094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16094","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=16094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16095,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16094\/revisions\/16095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}