THE James Packer-controlled Crown could get an offer for its $US600 million ($675 million) stake in its Macau gambling joint venture, a US-based analyst report says.
David Bain, a gambling analyst with the Southern California arm of the broking firm Sterne Agee, said in a note to clients that the world's..read more
PRIVATE equity firms have been put on notice that supposedly tax efficient structures for owning and selling assets such as the $2.4 billion float of the department store giant Myer Holdings may in fact attract multimillion-dollar income tax bills.
THERE would be almost no chance of recovering a $678 million tax bill against the private equity firm TPG if funds from last week's float of Myer moved offshore, a lawyer for the Australian Taxation Office warned in court this week.