Company: AHL
Filing Date: 2025-05-08
Form Type: 424B4
Source: 0001628280-25-023859
Chunk: 378

Company: ASPEN INSURANCE HOLDINGS LTD
Filing Date: 2025-05-08
Form: 424B4
Chunk 378
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 of a capital asset. If, as expected, Aspen Holdings does not compute its earnings and profits under U.S. tax principles, all distributions generally will be treated as dividends for U.S. federal income tax purposes. Dividends paid by us to U.S. Persons who are corporations generally will not be eligible for a dividends received deduction. We believe dividends paid by us on our ordinary shares to non-corporate U.S. Persons should be eligible for reduced rates of taxation as “qualified dividend income” if, as is intended, our ordinary shares remain listed on the NYSE and provided certain requirements, including stock holding period requirements, are satisfied. Qualified dividend income is subject to tax at long-term capital gains rates rather than the higher rates applicable to ordinary income.

Dividends that exceed certain thresholds in relation to a U.S. Person’s tax basis in the ordinary shares could be characterized as “extraordinary dividends” under the Code. A non-corporate U.S. Person that receives an extraordinary dividend will be required to treat any losses on the sale of such shares as long-term capital losses to the extent of the extraordinary dividends such U.S. Person receives that are treated as qualified dividend income.

Classification of Aspen Holdings or Its Non-U.S. Subsidiaries as CFCs

Each 10% U.S. Shareholder of a non-U.S. corporation that is a CFC at any time during a taxable year must include in its gross income for U.S. federal income tax purposes its pro rata share of the CFC’s subpart F income and tested income (with various adjustments) with respect to any shares that such 10% U.S. Shareholder owns in such non-U.S. corporation (directly or indirectly through certain entities) on the last day in the non-U.S. corporation’s taxable year on which it is a CFC, even if the subpart F income or tested income is not distributed. A “10% U.S. Shareholder” generally is a U.S. person that owns (directly, indirectly through non-U.S. entities or by attribution by application of the constructive ownership rules of Section 958(b) of the Code (i.e., “constructively”)) at least 10% of the total combined voting power or value of all classes of stock of a non-U.S. corporation. Subpart F income of a CFC generally includes “foreign personal holding company income” (such as interest, dividends and other types of passive income), as well as insurance and re