Leasing: for each tax, an opportunity.

FOR EACH TAX, AN OPPORTUNITY

The trend in the US and UK against using tax policy to influence capital expenditure decisions will almost inevitably prove detrimental to tax-motivated leasing. Yet eddies running contrary to the main current have created opportunities.

Within the US, tax benefit transfer leases were allowed to continue for certain equipment if the equipment orders had been placed by a certain date. This was also true for the modified tax benefit transfer, called the “finance lease’.