Company: FVR
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000950170-25-042774
Chunk: 77

Company: FrontView REIT, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 77
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% penalty tax on certain income or deductions if those transactions are not conducted on arm’s-length terms.

Overall, no more than 20% of the value of a REIT’s assets may consist of stock or securities of one or more TRSs. The Code also imposes a 100% excise tax on certain transactions between a TRS and its parent REIT that are not conducted on an arm’s-length basis. It is our policy to evaluate material intercompany transactions and to attempt to set the terms of such transactions so as to achieve substantially the same result as they believe would have been the case if they were unrelated parties. As a result, we believe that all material transactions between and among us and the entities in which we own a direct or indirect interest have been and will be negotiated and structured as arm’s-length transactions and that the potential application of the 100% excise tax will not have a material effect on us. There can be no assurance, however, that we will be able to comply with the TRS limitation or to avoid application of the 100% excise tax.

The IRS may treat sale-leaseback transactions as loans, which could jeopardize our REIT status or require us to make an unexpected distribution.

We have purchased properties and leased them back to the sellers of such properties, and may do so in the future. The IRS may take the position that certain of these sale-leaseback transactions that we treat as leases are not “true leases” but are, instead, financing arrangements or loans for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

If a sale-leaseback transaction were so re-characterized, the Subsidiary REITs and we might fail to satisfy the REIT asset tests, the income tests, or distribution requirements and consequently the Subsidiary REITs and we could lose REIT status effective with the year of re-characterization unless the Subsidiary REITs and we elect to make additional distributions to maintain REIT status. The primary risk relates to the disallowance of deductions for depreciation and cost recovery relating to such property, which could affect the calculation of REIT taxable income and could cause the Subsidiary REITs and us to fail the REIT distribution requirement that requires a REIT to distribute at least 90% of its REIT taxable income, computed without regard to the dividends paid deduction and any net capital gain. In this circumstance, the Subsidiary REITs and we may elect to distribute additional dividends of the increased taxable