Company: BXSL
Filing Date: 2025-08-06
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001736035-25-000018
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Company: Blackstone Secured Lending Fund
Filing Date: 2025-08-06
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
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 are deferred and amortized into interest expense over the life of the related debt instrument. Deferred financing costs related to revolving credit facilities are presented separately as an asset on the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Statements of Assets and Liabilities. Debt issuance costs, including premiums and discounts to par, related to any issuance of installment debt or notes are presented net against the outstanding debt balance of the related security.

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Table of ContentsBlackstone Secured Lending FundNotes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements(Unaudited)(in thousands, except share amounts, per share data, percentages and as otherwise noted)

Income TaxesThe Company has elected to be treated as a BDC under the 1940 Act. The Company also has elected to be treated as a RIC under the Code. So long as the Company maintains its status as a RIC, it generally will not pay corporate-level U.S. federal income taxes on any ordinary income or capital gains that it distributes at least annually to its shareholders as dividends. Rather, any tax liability related to income earned and distributed by the Company would represent obligations of the Company’s investors and would not be reflected in the condensed consolidated financial statements of the Company.The Company evaluates tax positions taken or expected to be taken in the course of preparing its condensed consolidated financial statements to determine whether the tax positions are “more-likely-than-not” to be sustained by the applicable tax authority. Tax positions not deemed to meet the “more-likely-than-not” threshold are reserved and recorded as a tax benefit or expense in the current year. All penalties and interest associated with income taxes are included in income tax expense. Conclusions regarding tax positions are subject to review and may be adjusted at a later date based on factors including, but not limited to, on-going analyses of tax laws, regulations and interpretations thereof. Management has analyzed the Company’s tax positions taken, or to be taken, on federal income tax returns for all open tax years, and has concluded that there are no material uncertain tax positions through June 30, 2025. As applicable, the Company’s federal tax returns are subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service for a period of three fiscal years after they are filed.To qualify for and maintain qualification as a RIC, the Company must, among other things, meet certain source-of-income and asset diversification requirements. In addition, to qualify for RIC tax treatment, the Company must distribute to its shareholders, for each taxable year, at least 90% of the sum of (i) its “