Long-Term Capital Holdings v. United States
Long-Term Capital Holdings v. United States | |
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Court | United States District Court for the District of Connecticut |
Full case name | Long-Term Capital Holdings, et al. v. United States of America |
Decided | August 27, 2004 |
Docket nos. | 3:01-cv-01290 3:01-cv-01291 3:01-cv-01711 3:01-cv-01713 3:01-cv-01714 |
Citation | 330 F. Supp. 2d 122 |
Court membership | |
Judge sitting | Janet Bond Arterton |
Keywords | |
Tax shelter |
Long Term Capital Holdings v. United States, 330 F. Supp. 2d 122 (D. Conn. 2004), was a court case argued before the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut that concerned a tax shelter used by Long-Term Capital Management, a failed hedge fund.[1]
The tax shelter had been designed by Babcock & Brown for Long-Term Capital to shelter its short-term trading gains from 1997.
The case was an appeal of an Internal Revenue Service denial of the plaintiffs' claim of $106,058,228 in capital losses during the 1997 tax year and associated penalties. After a bench trial, Judge Janet Bond Arterton ruled, on August 27, 2004, that the transactions employed by Long-Term Capital Holdings did not have economic substance and so were disregarded for tax purposes.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Long Term Capital Holdings v. United States, 330 F. Supp. 2d 122 (D. Conn. 2004).
External links
[edit]- Text of Long-Term Capital Holdings v. United States, 330 F. Supp. 2d 122 (D. Conn. 2004) is available from: CourtListener Justia Leagle Google Scholar U.S. Department of Justice
- A Tax Shelter, Deconstructed, a New York Times article about the case