Revenue Ruling 2002-69 Concludes That LILOs Confer a Future Interest in Property, Not a Current Leasehold Interest
Author: James R. Shorter, Jr..
Source: Volume 20, Number 04, Summer 2003 , pp.327-361(35)
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Abstract:
The Ruling bases the future interest vs. current leasehold interest conclusion on a substance of over form analysis, under which the rights and obligations under the Head Lease and Sublease are offset because they are “of the same nature.” The Ruling relies primarily on a series of cases in which the courts, applying the doctrine of substance over form, recharacterize the timing of the parties’ contractual obligations or the obligations themselves.Keywords:
Affiliations:
1: Thacher Proffitt & Wood.