Group fights higher taxes on buyout firms, funds
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The private equity industry and its friends are fighting back against legislation that would more than double their tax rate to 35 percent, contending the proposals would hurt average Americans and not just multimillionaire fund managers.
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KKR & Co. LP , the prominent U.S. buyout firm that helped to create the leveraged buyout industry, filed with regulators on Tuesday to raise up to $1.25 billion in an initial public offering of common units.
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A feud over influence at American International Group, the worldâs largest insurer, continues in legal papers and in public.
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Before announcing the biggest buyout on record, the private equity buyers of utility TXU Corp. came calling on environmental groups, the latest sign of how the green lobby is increasingly shaping the agenda on Wall Street.
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H&R Block Inc , the largest  U.S. tax preparer, said it was trying to renegotiate the sale  of its Option One Mortgage Corp unit and would get out subprime  lending after its quarterly loss more than doubled.
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If the tax collector gets his way, members of the leveraged-buyout crowd could soon be forced to add some zeros to the taxable income line on their federal forms.
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Business & money: Investor group says board withheld information and  threatens class action suit against the bank.
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The rise of Caribbean tax havens coincides with recent calls by American legislators for greater oversight and taxation of hedge funds.
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Now that the market has corrected a bit, management buyouts are running riot.
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People disagree about how companies should use excess cash.
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Some of the nationâs biggest insurance companies want to change rules that enable some of their competitors to avoid billions of dollars in federal taxes by sending money to themselves in tax havens.
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A consortium of investors led by Vornado Realty Trust planned to raise its bid for Equity Office Properties Group to more than $40 billion.
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Private-equity and hedge funds may soon face the taxman.
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In one of its broadest efforts to rein in what it regards as abusive tax shelter activity among well-to-do professionals, the Internal Revenue Service is seeking to shut down a group of California companies that have sold millions of dollars' worth of insurance and other purportedly tax-favored investments to doctors and dentists.
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A Nasdaq plan to increase listing fees while simultaneously offering more services has enraged some companies and raised antitrust concerns.
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H&R Block Inc , the largest U.S. tax preparer, said it was trying to renegotiate the sale of its Option One Mortgage Corp unit and would get out subprime lending after its quarterly loss more than doubled.
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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.