Legal Opinion

United States v. Northern Trust Company, as Trustee of the Caterpillar Incorporated Master Trust and the Inland Steel Industries Pension Trust

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided June 22, 2004No. 04-1148, 04-1150PublishedCited by 140 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

Closed-end mutual funds pay federal income tax on income and capital gains, then notify their investors, to which the tax burden passes through. A shareholder that is tax exempt (such as a pension trust or a university endowment) can claim a refund of the taxes that the mutual fund paid on account of its proportionate investment. Taxable investors get income coupled with a credit for tax the mutual fund has paid. Two pension trusts (for employees of Inland Steel and Caterpillar) were shareholders of record in Quest for Value Dual Purpose Fund, a closed-end mutual…

2Cases cited10 opinions

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