Equity firms 'to accept' tax hike
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Britain's leading private equity firms accept that a change to tax breaks they receive is "inevitable" reports say.
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Bloomberg - July 12 (Bloomberg) -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama supports legislation to raise the tax rate for publicly traded private-equity and hedge funds, an aide said today.
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Investors are heading into a quarter that will likely favor small- and mid-cap stocks as corporate profits rise and businesses rush to take advantage of a tax break designed to give a lift to small manufacturers.
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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 company may be hinting at going public.
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Top House Democrats yesterday proposed one of the most far-reaching changes to tax law in decades that would more than double what managers of private-equity and hedge funds are required to pay.
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Council tax bills across England are expected to rise by an average of 4% this year, the BBC learns.
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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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London Stock Exchange Group Plc forecast  a big rise in third-quarter earnings and pledged to raise its  full-year dividend at least 50 percent as it reiterated its  opposition to a 2.7 billion pound ($5.3 billion) hostile bid  from U.S. rival Nasdaq .
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Entrepreneurs are considering selling firms because of uncertainty over capital gains tax, the CBI head says.
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Incoming prime minister Gordon Brown hints at a tax raise.
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Congress is preparing to get some juicy tax revenues from private equity.
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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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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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A proposal to double the tax rate of executives at private equity firms would have negligible impact on the returns received by pensioners, specialists told Congress Thursday.
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U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, said on Tuesday he plans to look at the potential impact of legislation that would sharply raise taxes on private equity firms going public, such as Blackstone Group LP .
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This will be accomplished through a share buy-back plan in Australia, where 40% of the company&#39;s shares are held. because of the tax breaks they enjoy on such sales.