Lobbyists Try to Quell Frenzy Over Private-Equity Fund Tax
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Soon after Rep. Eric Cantor called a meeting of lobbyists two weeks ago, his aides had to find a larger room. Instead of the couple dozen they had expected, 75 showed up.
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Executives of private equity companies said that increasing levels of leverage in the financial markets should stir caution among investors.
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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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Two US senators have proposed a sharp rise in the tax that private equity firms have to pay.
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The private equity industry will outline measures aimed at greater transparency to fend off mounting criticism.
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Private equity firms, already under fire by politicians for their tax breaks and borrowing levels, expect their risks to escalate on yet another front -- the courtroom.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has looked into whether lobbyists provided hedge funds with potentially market-moving information about a pending congressional speech.
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The debate over raising taxes on private equity firms has put pension fund managers in a tight spot.
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A bill that aims to help small businesses is being criticized by some who say it allows venture capital companies to pose as small firms to tap into billions of federal research dollars.
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What a difference a midterm election makes -- or so it seems at some firms and trade groups scurrying to bolster their bipartisan credentials. But the folks at the Investment Company Institute, the trade association for the mutual fund industry, say their recent Democratic hire just maintains the...
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A move by Fidelity Investments to lower its corporate taxes -- potentially by hundreds of millions of dollars a year -- came under fire yesterday by tax policy advocates and a Massachusetts union official, while a business group defended the Boston mutual fund firm's strategy.
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Private equity and hedge fund executives yesterday warned lawmakers that efforts to raise taxes on their firms' managers could weaken the global competitiveness of US financial markets.
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A senior Democrat said yesterday that if Congress tried to raise taxes on U S private equity firms and hedge funds, it must do the same with other partnerships involving oil, real estate, and venture capital.
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Partners of private equity firm  Blackstone Group LP  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, a regulatory filing shows.
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Investor groups sounded alarms yesterday after it emerged that a foundation with ties to a pair of well-heeled business donors and an executive battling civil charges had funded a controversial new report seeking to slash corporate regulation.
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Congress is on the hunt for revenue raisers. Watch your wallet. Call your lobbyist.
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Private-equity and hedge funds may soon face the taxman.