Tax Gap Puts Private Equity Firms on Hot Seat
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A tax law quirk allows private equity firms to operate as partnerships and to pay lower tax rates than corporations.
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Private equity firms have  demonstrated strength in numbers by teaming up to make  significant acquisitions, and as some firms keep expanding,  investors say the trend toward "club" deals will help them snag  assets that once were out of their grasp.
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Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives introduced a bill on Friday that would more than double taxes on the pay of managers of private equity funds, hedge funds and other investment partnerships.
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Partners of private equity firm  Blackstone Group may have devised a way to avoid paying tax on  $3.7 billion raised largely in the firm&#39;s initial public  offering last month, the New York Times reported on Friday.
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The massive funds raised by private  equity firms and the faster-than-expected speed with which  they're spending them are stretching some of their investors  thin, causing concern that there won't be enough money to go  around in 2007.
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The spring rush to raise taxes on private-equity firms and hedge funds has turned into a crawl as congressional tax writers, particularly in the Senate, take a cautious approach to crafting the legislation.
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Uncle Sam has made his first foray into possibly raising taxes on the private equity and hedge fund industry with what Wall Street has dubbed âthe Blackstone bill.â
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With taxes on private equity and hedge funds front and center, many in the industry are looking to Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, for help.
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Blackstone Group LP , which is preparing to go public later this month, said on Friday that proposed U.S. Senate legislation on the taxation of private equity firms could materially reduce earnings and lower the partnership's value.
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A multibillion-dollar gap between what public companies book as expenses for their executives' stock options and what they report to the Internal Revenue Service under two sets of rules is costing the Treasury billions of dollars in taxes, a senator seeking to end the discrepancy said yesterday.
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Private equity managers like Henry R. Kravis are fighting a fierce, uphill lobbying battle over one of the most contentious tax proposals in the last decade.
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A pullback in commercial property lending has raised questions about whether a recent surge in real estate investment trust buyouts signaled a peak for private equity funds.
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There was a distinct feeling at the World Economic Forum that private equity was not on the hot seat â at least not as Topic A among the worldâs economists and financiers.
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A leveraged buyout of Virgin Media  would rely heavily on tax benefits for returns to any private equity buyer, just as the industry faces mounting criticism over the use of other types of tax breaks.
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The massive funds raised by private equity firms and the faster-than-expected speed with which they're spending them are stretching some of their investors thin, causing concern that there won't be enough money to go around in 2007.
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Signs are appearing that private-equity groups may be having more difficulty making deals.
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The private equity business hit bumps. A deal was struck for a possible Dow Jones sale, and the Supreme Court struck down a longstanding rule on product pricing.