Corporate income tax and futures hedging
Our research is motivated by the Corn Products vs. Arkansas Best Supreme Court decisions that pitched the controversy of the tax treatment of gains and losses from futures hedging. The use of futures contracts as risk management tools depends on the tax code. In this paper we address complications in the current tax code that allow for asymmetric offset: Ordinary losses can be applied against capital gains; however, capital losses cannot by applied against ordinary gains. Also we consider the issue of tax loss carryover. We investigate the optimal hedge ratios under these scenarios analytically where possible, and numerically where necessary. Copyright Academy of Economics and Finance 2001
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2001
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Authors: | Lien, Donald ; Metz, Michael |
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Journal of Economics and Finance. - Springer, ISSN 1055-0925. - Vol. 25.2001, 3, p. 308-315
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