Tax implications often determine how certain types of investors will invest in a fund. There are various categories of investors that have competing tax implications so it is important that the fund can accommodate the competing tax interests of the investors. One category of investors are tax-exempt investors and planning for unrelated business income tax (“UBIT”).
A common planning strategy for tax-exempt investors to avoid UBIT is having a blocking corporation between the fund and the tax-exempt investors. The blocker corporation is not tax-exempt and the income that flows through to the blocker corporation will be subject to corporate income tax reducing the return to the tax-exempt investors by the amount of the corporate income tax. […]
