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Article: Real Estate Holding Companies Beware
- Article from:
- Business NH Magazine
- Article date:
- June 1, 2004
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CopyrightCopyright Laurentian Business Publishing Inc. Jun 01, 2004. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Heard from the NH Department of Revenue Administration (DRA) recently? If you are a real estate holding company, you may be getting a call. An area that is receiving increased audit attention from the DRA is the transfer of interests in "real estate holding companies." Despite the fact that this provision of the real estate transfer tax was added in 1997, taxation of transfers of interests in real estate holding companies seemed to remain below the DRA's radar screen ... until now.
This tax is easy to overlook because it is not intuitive that the real estate transfer tax can be triggered by a transfer of something other than real estate. Often commercial real estate and business entities ...