Consent to Treatment for Tax Purposes. The Company and each Holder of a Normal Unit or a Stripped Unit, by its acceptance thereof, covenants and agrees (a) to treat a Holder's acquisition of the Normal Unit as the acquisition of the Note and Purchase Contract constituting the Normal Unit, (b) to treat a Holder's acquisition of a Stripped Unit as the acquisition of a Treasury Security and Purchase Contract constituting the Stripped Unit, (c) to treat each Holder as the owner, for federal, state and local income and franchise tax purposes of (i) the related Notes or the Treasury Consideration, in the case of the Normal Units, or (ii) the Treasury Securities, in the case of the Stripped Units, (d) to treat the Notes as indebtedness of the Company for federal, state and local income and franchise tax purposes and (e) to allocate 100% of the issue price of a Normal Unit to the beneficial interest in the Note and 0.00% of the issue price to the Purchase Contract.
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Samples: Purchase Contract Agreement (Xl Capital LTD), Purchase Contract Agreement (Xl Capital LTD), Purchase Contract Agreement (Xl Capital LTD)