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PPIP, unveiled on March 23, 2009, was designed to encourage the creation of markets for so-called "toxic assets" that were at the center of the credit crisis
On September 15, 2009, the IRS and the Treasury issued final regulations addressing permitted modifications of commercial mortgage loans held by a REMIC and Revenue Procedure 2009- 45, describing the conditions under which modifications to mortgage loans will not cause the IRS to challenge the tax status or treatment of securitization vehicles that hold the loans
A complication that arises for floating rate-linked notes within the Type 1 category (i.e., principal protected notes treated as debt for U.S. federal income tax purposes) where the rate is expressed by reference to an index that does not measure borrowing rates (e.g., LIBOR or EURIBOR) is whether the expressed rate is treated as an objective rate within the meaning of the applicable regulations
As discussed in our prior issue of MoFo Tax Talk (see MoFo Tax Talk, Volume 2, Issue 1), debt issues are often "reopened," meaning that an issuer issues an additional tranche of notes ("additional notes") at some point after the original issuance ("original notes"
