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Earlier this year, my former colleague Jonathan Prokup and I published an article in the Journal of Taxation and Regulation of Financial Institutions. In the article, we considered the federal tax consequences of Treasury's capital purchase program – the centerpiece of TARP. Under the program, Treasury invested several hundred billion dollars into hundreds of our country's banks to alleviate their perceived liquidity problems, which many believed to be the cause of the unfolding financial crisis.
Our article concluded that, even though most TARP instruments were nominally ...
Four years have passed since Congress enacted the Troubled Assets Relief Program, better known as TARP. After Treasury determined that frozen credit markets were threatening the U.S. financial industry and even the entire economy, it asked Congress to authorize the purchase of illiquid mortgages from banks. Congress obliged, authorizing Treasury to purchase up to $700 billion of these so-called “toxic assets.”
Soon after the enactment of TARP, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson changed course and decided that investing directly in the banks would better serve TARP’s ...