Long-Term Capital Holdings v. United States
| Long-Term Capital Holdings v. United States | |
|---|---|
| United States District Court for the District of Connecticut | |
| Full case name | Long-Term Capital Holdings, et al. v. United States of America |
| Date decided | August 27, 2004 |
| Citations | 330 F. Supp. 2d 122 |
| 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 it's 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
- 1 2 Long Term Capital Holdings v. United States, 330 F. Supp. 2d 122 (D. Conn. 2004).
External links
- 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