Company: EPR-PE
Filing Date: 2025-12-05
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001193125-25-309969
Chunk: 84

Company: EPR PROPERTIES
Filing Date: 2025-12-05
Form: 424B5
Chunk 84
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 percentage of our earnings that we distribute. While Stinson LLP has reviewed those matters
in connection with its opinion, Stinson LLP will not review our compliance with those tests on a continuing basis. Our ability to qualify as a REIT also requires that we satisfy certain asset tests, some of which depend upon the fair market values
of assets directly or indirectly owned by us. Such values may not be susceptible to a precise determination. There can be no assurance that the IRS would not challenge the valuations of the assets directly or indirectly owned by us. In

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addition, our ability to qualify as a REIT also depends in part upon the operating results, organizational structure and entity classification for U.S. federal income tax purposes of certain affiliated entities, including affiliates that have made elections to be taxed as REITs, and for whom the actual results of the various REIT qualification tests have not been and will not be reviewed by our counsel. Accordingly, given the complex nature of the rules governing REITs, the ongoing importance of factual determinations, including the potential tax treatment of the investments we make, and the possibility of future changes in our circumstances, no assurance can be given that the actual results of our operations for any particular taxable year will satisfy such requirements for qualification and taxation as a REIT. Stinson LLP’s opinion will not foreclose the possibility that we may have to use one or more REIT savings provisions discussed below, which could require us to pay an excise or penalty tax (which could be material) in order for us to maintain our REIT qualification. For a discussion of the tax consequences of our failure to qualify as a REIT, see “— Failure to Qualify.” For so long as we qualify for taxation as a REIT, we generally will not be subject to U.S. federal corporate income taxes on our taxable income that is distributed currently to our shareholders because we will be entitled to a deduction for dividends that we pay. This treatment substantially eliminates the “double taxation” (once at the corporate level when earned and once again at the shareholders’ level when distributed) that generally results from investment in an ordinary Subchapter C corporation. Any distributions to our shareholders will be included in their income as dividends to the extent of our current or accumulated earnings and profits. U.S. shareholders generally will be subject to taxation on dividends distributed by us (other than designated capital gain dividends and dividends attributable to distributions we receive of “qualified dividend income”) at rates applicable to ordinary income (currently at a maximum tax rate of