{"id":16140,"date":"2010-06-10T07:47:33","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T11:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=16140"},"modified":"2010-06-10T07:47:33","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T11:47:33","slug":"senate-seeks-to-close-hedge-funds-tax-loophole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2010\/senate-seeks-to-close-hedge-funds-tax-loophole.html","title":{"rendered":"Senate Seeks To Close Hedge Funds Tax Loophole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NPR &#8211; The Senate is considering a bill this week aimed at creating jobs and  extending some business and family tax breaks. Lawmakers have decided  to pay for those provisions by partially closing a controversial tax  loophole that has allowed managers of investment partnerships, from  hedge funds to real estate developers, to pay less than half the regular  tax rate on much of their income.<\/p>\n<p>Closing  this loophole would more than double the tax paid on something called  carried interest income.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=127728787\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR &#8211; The Senate is considering a bill this week aimed at creating jobs and extending some business and family tax breaks. Lawmakers have decided to pay for those provisions by partially closing a controversial tax loophole that has allowed [&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-16140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16140","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=16140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16141,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16140\/revisions\/16141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}