Company: GLRE
Filing Date: 2025-03-10
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001385613-25-000007
Chunk: 661

Company: GREENLIGHT CAPITAL RE, LTD.
Filing Date: 2025-03-10
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 661
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 not be subject to any such tax. As the law currently stands, upon the expiration of the current exemption, it will be possible for us to apply for another 20 year exemption for each of Greenlight Re, GLRE and Viridis Re, which we plan to do.  If we were to become subject to taxation in the Cayman Islands, our financial condition and results of operations could be materially and adversely affected. 

We may be subject to United States federal income taxation.

Greenlight Capital Re, Greenlight Re and Viridis Re are incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands, and GRIL is incorporated under the laws of Ireland. These entities intend to operate in a manner that will not cause us to be treated as engaging in a trade or business within the United States and will not cause us to be subject to current United States federal income taxation on Greenlight Capital Re’s, Greenlight Re’s, Viridis Re’s and/or GRIL’s net income. However, because there are no definitive standards provided by the Internal Revenue Code, regulations or court decisions as to the specific activities that constitute being engaged in the conduct of a trade or business within the United States, and as any such determination is essentially factual in nature, we cannot provide assurance that the United States Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”), will not successfully assert that Greenlight Capital Re, Greenlight Re, Viridis Re and/or GRIL are engaged in a trade or business within the United States. If the IRS were to successfully assert that Greenlight Capital Re, Greenlight Re, Viridis Re and/or GRIL have been engaged in a trade or business within the United States in any taxable year, various adverse tax consequences could result, including the following: Greenlight Capital Re, Greenlight Re, Viridis Re and/or GRIL may become subject to current United States federal income taxation on its net income from sources within the United States; Greenlight Capital Re, Greenlight Re, Viridis Re and/or GRIL may be subject to United States federal income tax on a portion of its net investment income, regardless of its source; and Greenlight Capital Re, Greenlight Re, Viridis Re and/or GRIL may be subject to United States branch profits tax on profits deemed to have been distributed out of the United States.  

United States persons who own ordinary shares may be subject to United States federal income taxation on our undistributed earnings and may recognize ordinary income upon disposition of ordinary shares.

Passive Foreign Investment Company. Potential adverse United States federal income tax