Tax Consequences of Payments and Adjustments. For all Tax purposes, the Parties hereto shall treat (i) any payment made pursuant to this Agreement (other than payments representing interest) as either a contribution by the relevant entity or a distribution by the relevant entity (or as adjustments to such contribution or distribution) occurring immediately prior to the Vornado OP Contribution to Newco OP, the Vornado OP Distribution of OP Units, the Vornado Contribution of OP Units or the Vornado Distribution, as the case may be, or as a payment of an assumed or retained liability; and (ii) any payment of interest as taxable or deductible, as the case may be, to the Party entitled under this Agreement to retain such payment or required under this Agreement to make such payment, in either case except as otherwise required by applicable Law. If the receipt or accrual of any indemnity payment under this Agreement causes, directly or indirectly, an increase in the taxable income of the recipient under one or more applicable Tax Laws, such payment shall be increased so that, after the payment of any Taxes with respect to the payment, the recipient thereof shall have realized the same net amount it would have realized had the payment not resulted in taxable income. For the avoidance of doubt, any liability for Taxes due to an increase in taxable income described in the immediately preceding sentence shall be governed by this Section 4.4 and not by Section 2.1. To the extent that Taxes for which any Party hereto (the “Indemnifying Party”) is required to pay an Indemnified Party pursuant to this Agreement (i) may be deducted or credited in determining the amount of any other Taxes required to be paid by the Indemnified Party (for example, state Taxes which are permitted to be deducted in determining federal Taxes) or (ii) reduces the amount required to be distributed by the Indemnified Party under Section 857(a), the amount of any payment made to the Indemnified Party by the Indemnifying Party shall be decreased by taking into account, in the case of (i), any resulting reduction in other Taxes actually realized by the Indemnified Party and, in the case of (ii), the reduction of the amount actually distributed by the Indemnified Party (determined pursuant to the Distribution Comparison Analysis). If such a reduction in Taxes or reduction of such amount required to be so distributed of the Indemnified Party occurs following the payment made to the Indemnified Party with respect to the relevant indemnified Taxes, the Indemnified Party shall promptly repay the Indemnifying Party the amount of such reduction when actually realized. If the Tax Benefit arising from the foregoing reduction of Taxes or the reduction of such amount so required to be distributed described in this Section 4.4 is subsequently decreased or eliminated, then the Indemnifying Party shall promptly pay the Indemnified Party the amount of the decrease in such Tax Benefit or such reduction, as applicable. If an adjustment to the liability for Taxes for which one Party or any of its Subsidiaries is responsible hereunder (i) gives rise to a Tax Benefit to the other Party or any of its Subsidiaries or (ii) reduces the amount required to be distributed by such other Party under Section 857(a), including, in each case, as a result of an election set forth in Section 4.5, such latter Party shall, on an annual basis, pay such former Party, in the case of (i), any resulting reduction in Taxes actually realized by such latter Party as a result of such Tax Benefit and, in the case of (ii), the reduction of the amount actually distributed by the Indemnified Party (determined pursuant to the Distribution Comparison Analysis).
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Samples: Tax Matters Agreement (JBG SMITH Properties), Master Transaction Agreement (JBG SMITH Properties), Master Transaction Agreement (Vornado Realty Lp)