Hartford Courant - Michael Lauer’s estate in the prestigious backcountry neighborhood of this wealthy town looks almost as troubled as the U.S. economy.
The grounds are overgrown with waist-high weeds. A pool cover is filled with filthy, stagnant water. Inside, paint is peeling around the soaring windows.
So when the house of the disgraced hedge […]

Los Angeles Times - Big Wall Street investment banks have designed and marketed schemes enabling non-U.S. taxpayers, including offshore hedge funds, to evade millions of dollars in taxes each year on U.S. stock dividends, Senate investigators have found.
Some banks have been crafting for more than 10 years transactions designed to enable their foreign clients to […]

Bloomberg - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., UBS AG and Merrill Lynch & Co. are among Wall Street firms that concocted derivatives and stock-loan deals to help offshore hedge funds dodge hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. taxes, according to a U.S. Senate committee investigation.
The Internal Revenue Service looked the other way while securities firms […]

The Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) has recently issued new rulings and regulations that have an impact on tax filings by many hedge funds.  The new rulings deal with the deduction of investment interest expense for trading funds and fund-level expenses incurred by fund-of-hedge funds.
Investment Interest Expense
The ruling recently issued by the IRS regarding investment interest […]