{"id":16440,"date":"2010-06-29T07:11:39","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T11:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=16440"},"modified":"2010-06-29T07:11:39","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T11:11:39","slug":"aima-hedge-funds-singled-out-for-unfair-tax-in-finance-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2010\/aima-hedge-funds-singled-out-for-unfair-tax-in-finance-bill.html","title":{"rendered":"AIMA: Hedge Funds Singled Out For Unfair Tax In Finance Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dow Jones -The Alternative Investment Management Association has  voiced concern over taxing larger U.S. hedge fund managers to finance  the cost of the financial-regulation bill, saying the industry has been  &#8220;singled out for more onerous treatment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The cost of the bill  is estimated at up to $19 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The global hedge fund  association, which represents more than 1,100 members in over 40  countries, said the assessment on hedge funds with $10 billion or more  in assets is &#8220;unfair&#8221; and &#8220;inappropriate,&#8221; and said no hedge fund  received public funds or caused any financial stress to a banking  institution or other counterparty during the crisis. Under the proposal,  besides hedge funds, the bill will be footed by financial institutions  with $50 billion or more in assets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/BT-CO-20100628-708478.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dow Jones -The Alternative Investment Management Association has voiced concern over taxing larger U.S. hedge fund managers to finance the cost of the financial-regulation bill, saying the industry has been &#8220;singled out for more onerous treatment.&#8221; The cost of the [&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-16440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16440","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=16440"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16442,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16440\/revisions\/16442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}