The Use of Derivatives in Tax Planning

Book excerpt: The Use of Derivatives in Tax Planning provides insightful and in-depth coverage of timely issues including: tax treatments of notional principal contracts, taxation of credit derivatives, derivative tax planning applications for fixed-income instruments, using derivatives to shift income, enhancing after-tax returns, working with the straddle rules of tax code sections 1092 and 263(g), derivatives in the charitable world, using OTC equity derivatives for high-net-worth individuals, corporate applications of derivatives, synthetic exchangeables and convertibles, and structures and selected tax issues.