Zusammenfassung der Ressource
5. Market Regulations
- Tax consideration
- Sellers
- Buyers
- Taxable
- Asset acquisition
- Implications
- Stepping up
- Possible to amortise acquired goodwill arising from asset acquisition
- Stock acquisition
- Implications
- Step up = taxable gain
- Double taxation
- Benefit for acquirer if section 338
Anmerkungen:
- 80 % or more of voting stock
- May handle as asset acquisition
- Tax free transactions
- Requirements
- Continuity of ownership
- Contiuity of business enterprice
- Valid business purpose
- Step transaction doctrine
- Tax free structures
- Type A
- Type B
- Type C
- Type D
- Forward triangular merger most used for tax free asset acquisition
- NOL
- Carrybacks
- Carryforwards
- Tax inversion
- Change domicile
- Cross border
- Non-equity usually taxable
- Shareholders pay if stock aquisition
- Firm pay if asset acquisition
- Imidiate gain recignised by target shareholders
- Acquirer loses NOLS and tax credits???
- Increase tax basis
- Relocate tax domicile
- Demand higher price for taxable transaction
- M&A Market reulations
- Equality of treatment
- Mandatory offer above ownership treshold
- Certainty of financing
- Squeexe out rights
- Legislation
- Companies act
- City code
- Eu competition rules
- Listing rules
- Launching bid
- Firstly to target
- Public announcement
- Putup or shut up