Company: EGP
Filing Date: 2025-12-05
Form Type: S-3ASR
Source: 0001140361-25-044456
Chunk: 54

Company: EASTGROUP PROPERTIES INC
Filing Date: 2025-12-05
Form: S-3ASR
Chunk 54
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 term “U.S. shareholder” means a beneficial owner of our common stock or preferred stock that, for U.S. federal income tax purposes, is (i) a citizen or resident of the United States, (ii) a corporation or other entity treated as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes, created or organized in or under the laws of the United States, any of its states or the District of Columbia, (iii) an estate, the income of which is subject to U.S. federal income taxation regardless of its source, or (iv) a trust (a) that is subject to the primary supervision of a United States court and the control of one or more U.S. persons or (b) that has a valid election in effect under the applicable Treasury Regulations to be treated as a U.S. person under the Code.

If a partnership, including any entity treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes, holds our stock, the U.S. federal income tax treatment of a partner in the partnership will generally depend on the status of the partner and the activities of the partnership. If you are a partner in a partnership holding our stock, you are urged to consult your tax advisor regarding the consequences of the ownership and disposition of shares of our stock by the partnership.

Distributions

Distributions paid by us to taxable U.S. shareholders, other than capital gain dividends, will constitute ordinary dividends to the extent of our current or accumulated earnings and profits as determined for U.S. federal income tax purposes. In accordance with the distribution priority contained in our charter, distributions on our preferred stock will be treated as made out of any available earnings and profits in priority to distributions on our common stock. In general, these dividends will be taxable as ordinary income and will not be eligible for the dividends-received deduction for corporate shareholders.

Because we are not generally subject to U.S. federal income tax on the portion of our REIT taxable income distributed to our shareholders, our ordinary dividends generally will not qualify for treatment as qualified dividend income taxed as net capital gain for non-corporate U.S. shareholders and will continue to be taxed at the higher rate applicable to ordinary income. The preferential tax rate for qualified dividend income will apply to our ordinary dividends only to the extent attributable (i) to qualified dividend income received from corporations, such as our TRSs, or (ii) to income upon which we have paid corporate income tax (e.g., to the extent that we distribute less than 100% of our taxable income