Company: FOACW
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001828937-25-000009
Chunk: 396

Company: Finance of America Companies Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 396
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 taxes on our allocable share of any net taxable income (offset by any allowable prior period taxable losses) of FOA Equity. Our allocable share of FOA Equity’s net taxable income or loss will increase over time as the FOA Equity unitholders exchange their Class A LLC Units for shares of the Company’s Class A Common Stock. 

In addition, additional tax liability may be imputed for adjustments to a partnership’s tax return to the partnership itself in certain circumstances, absent an election to the contrary. FOA Equity may be subject to material additional tax liabilities pursuant to this legislation and related guidance if, for example, its calculations of taxable income are incorrect. Any such additional tax liabilities would be allocated to holders of Class A LLC Units, including the Company.

The Company is required to make payments under the Tax Receivable Agreements for certain tax benefits the Company may claim, and the amounts of such payments could be significant.

The Company entered into the Tax Receivable Agreements with the TRA Parties. The Tax Receivable Agreements generally provide for the payment by the Company to the TRA Parties of 85% of the cash tax benefits, if any, that the Company is deemed to realize (calculated using certain simplifying assumptions) as a result of (i) tax basis adjustments as a result of sales and exchanges of Class A LLC Units and certain distributions with respect to Class A LLC Units, (ii) the Company’s utilization of certain tax attributes attributable to Blackstone Tactical Opportunities Associates – NQ L.L.C., a Delaware limited partnership, shareholders, and (iii) certain other tax benefits related to entering into the Tax Receivable Agreements, including tax benefits attributable to making payments under the Tax Receivable Agreements. The Company will generally retain the benefit of the remaining 15% of these cash tax benefits.

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Estimating the amount of payments that may be made under the Tax Receivable Agreements is by its nature imprecise, insofar as the calculation of amounts payable depends on a variety of factors. The anticipated tax basis adjustments, as well as the amount and timing of any payments under the Tax Receivable Agreements, will vary depending upon a number of factors, including the timing of exchanges, the price of shares of the Company’s Class A Common Stock at the time of the exchanges, the extent to which such exchanges are taxable, the amount of tax attributes, changes in tax rates, and the amount and timing of the Company’s income. As a result of the size of the anticipated tax basis adjustment