Company: CGABL
Filing Date: 2025-09-17
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001193125-25-206326
Chunk: 109

Company: Carlyle Group Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-09-17
Form: 424B5
Chunk 109
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 Special certification rules apply to non-U.S. holders that are pass-through entities rather than corporations or individuals.           |

If you cannot satisfy the requirements described above, payments of interest, including OID, made to you will be subject to a 30% U.S. federal withholding tax, unless you provide the applicable withholding agent with a properly executed:

| • |     | IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E (or other applicable form) claiming an exemption from or reduction in withholding under the benefit of an applicable income tax treaty or |

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| • |     | IRS Form W-8ECI (or other applicable form) stating that interest paid on                                                                                                                                
 the debt securities is not subject to withholding tax because it is effectively connected with your conduct of a trade or business in the United States (as discussed below under “-U.S. Federal Income 
 Tax”).                                                                                                                                                                                                  |

The 30% U.S. federal withholding tax generally will not apply to any payment of principal or gain that you realize on the sale, exchange, retirement or other taxable disposition of a debt security. U.S. Federal Income Tax If you are engaged in a trade or business in the United States and interest, including OID, on the debt securities is effectively connected with the conduct of that trade or business (and, if required by an applicable income tax treaty, is attributable to a U.S. permanent establishment), then you will be subject to U.S. federal income tax on that interest on a net income basis in the same manner as if you were a United States person as defined under the Code. In addition, if you are a foreign corporation, you may be subject to a branch profits tax equal to 30% (or lower applicable income tax treaty rate) of your effectively connected earnings and profits, subject to adjustments. Any effectively connected interest will be exempt from the 30% U.S. federal withholding tax, provided the certification requirements discussed above in “-U.S.Federal Withholding Tax” are satisfied. Subject to the discussion of backup withholding below, any gain realized on the sale, exchange, retirement or other taxable disposition of a debt security generally will not be subject to U.S. federal income tax unless:

| • |     | the gain is effectively connected with your conduct of a trade or business in the United States (and, if required                                                                                                                                  
 by an applicable income tax treaty, is attributable to a U.S. permanent establishment), in which case such gain will generally be subject to U.S. federal income