Testimony Counters Private Equity Tax Claims
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Pension fund and tax specialists said a proposal to increase taxes on executives at private equity firms and hedge funds would have a negligible effect on pension fund returns.
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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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Research suggests that companies bought by private equity firms are not the massive destroyers of jobs they have been accused of.
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Unwritten assurances from Enron Corp. to keep trying to sell Merrill Lynch &amp; Co.&#39;s $7 million interest in three power-generating barges wasn&#39;ta &quot;legal impediment&quot; to making that investment, an in-house lawyer for the brokerage testified Monday.
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NEW YORK -- The judge overseeing a criminal tax fraud case against 16 former KPMG LLP executives said he won't dismiss charges until he learns how the defendants were allegedly harmed by illegal government conduct.
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An investor lawsuit has been filed  against Merrill Lynch & Co Inc , contending that the  company issued false and misleading statements about its  exposure to risky mortgage investments, the plaintiffs' lawyers  said on Tuesday.
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A former Enron accountant testified Thursday that he knew an arrangement to temporarily sell Merrill Lynch some barges just to boost Enron&#39;s bottom line was wrong and he planned to lie about it if confronted.
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Are Private equity firms profiting from their own overreaching?
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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 9 -- A Republican congressman from California defended his reputation this week, as FBI investigators look into charges that he improperly delayed paying taxes on several lucrative land deals.
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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's initial public offering last month, according to a regulatory filing.
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Huge private equity profits should not be subject to tax breaks, the shadow chancellor says.
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A former New York Stock Exchange floor   trader charged with securities fraud took the stand in his   defense on Wednesday, telling a jury that he had never   intentionally ordered illegal trading that cheated investors.
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Billionaire investor George Soros, challenging a conviction for insider trading, denied the charges in a French appeals hearing Thursday and insisted he knows the difference between inside and public information.
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Accredited Home Lenders Holding rebuffed a private equity firmâs effort to pay less for the company, saying Friday that it would continue a lawsuit aimed at closing the deal at the price previously agreed.
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Two senior U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday questioned the handling by market regulators of an insider trading probe involving hedge fund Pequot Capital and John Mack, CEO of Wall Street giant Morgan Stanley .
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The lawyer defending the former chief executive of General Reinsurance against fraud charges pointed the finger Tuesday at the investor Warren E. Buffett.
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Comment is free: Polly Toynbee: The private equity sector, with its attendant risks to employees, pensioners and tax revenue, should be reined in and regulated.