Tax Returns (a) Parent shall prepare or cause to be prepared and file or cause to be filed when due all Tax Returns required to be filed for taxable periods of each Business Entity other than Aleris Germany ending on or before the Closing Date, and shall pay or cause to be paid any Taxes due in respect of such Tax Returns. To the extent such Taxes (including Taxes treated as Transaction Expenses) are taken into account as liabilities in the calculation of Net Working Capital, Parent shall provide Buyer with written notice of such payment, and within ten (10) Business Days of receipt of such written notice of payment, Buyer shall reimburse Parent for such Taxes. No later than ninety (90) days after the Closing Date, Buyer shall cause each Business Entity to furnish to Parent Tax information relating to such Business Entity, consistent with the past practice and custom of Sellers and such Business Entity.
(b) Buyer shall procure that Aleris Germany (i) shall instruct a German tax adviser selected by Parent to prepare (observing comments and instructions of the Parent) all annual Tax Returns required to be filed for taxable periods of Aleris Germany ending on or before the Closing Date, (ii) shall review and sign off on the draft Tax Returns and (iii) instruct the tax adviser to file such Tax Returns when due. Parent shall pay or cause to be paid any Taxes due and payable by Aleris Germany in respect of such Tax Returns (except to the extent such Taxes (including Taxes treated as Transaction Expenses) are taken into account as liabilities in the calculation of Net Working Capital). No later than ninety (90) days after the Closing Date, Buyer shall cause Aleris Germany to furnish to Parent and the tax adviser Tax information relating to it, consistent with the past practice and custom of the Sellers and Aleris Germany.
(c) Except as provided in Section 6.03(a), Section 6.03(b) and Section 6.03(e), Buyer shall prepare or cause to be prepared and file or cause to be filed when due all Tax Returns required to be filed by any Business Entity, and shall pay or cause to be paid any Taxes due in respect of such Tax Returns.
(d) Any Tax Return required to be filed with respect to a Straddle Period of any Business Entity shall be prepared in accordance with the past practice and custom of Sellers and such Business Entity and shall be submitted (with copies of any relevant schedules, work papers and other documentation then available) to Parent for Parent’s written approval not less than thirty (30) days prior to the due date for the filing of such Tax Return, which written approval shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed. Parent shall have the option of providing to Buyer, at any time at least fifteen (15) days prior to the due date, written instructions as to the manner in which any, or all, of the items for which it may be liable hereunder shall be reflected on such Tax Return. Buyer shall, in preparing such Tax Return, cause the items for which Parent may be liable hereunder to be reflected in accordance with Parent’s instructions, to the extent permitted by Law.
(e) The Person required by applicable Law to file any Tax Returns or other documentation with respect to any Transfer Taxes shall prepare and file such Tax Returns or other documentation and pay the Taxes due with respect thereto. Parent and Buyer shall each, and shall each cause their Affiliates to, cooperate in the timely preparation and filing of, and join in the execution of, any such Tax Returns and other documentation.
(f) To the extent a party pays Taxes pursuant to this Section 6.03 for which such party is not responsible under Section 6.01, the paying party shall, in good faith, provide the other party’s representative (Parent or Buyer, as the case may be), with written notice of such payment, and within ten (10) Business Days of receipt of such written notice of payment, the non-paying party’s representative shall reimburse the paying party for the non-paying party’s share of the paid Taxes.
Tax Information Returns and Reports The Service Provider shall prepare and file, and require to be prepared and filed by any brokers or banks as to their Customers, with the appropriate governmental agencies, such information, returns and reports as are required to be so filed for reporting: (i) dividends and other distributions made; (ii) amounts withheld on dividends and other distributions and payments under applicable federal and state laws, rules and regulations; and (iii) gross proceeds of sales transactions as required.
Returns Provided no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, if any Account Debtor returns any Inventory to Borrower, Borrower shall promptly (i) determine the reason for such return, (ii) issue a credit memorandum to the Account Debtor in the appropriate amount, and (iii) provide a copy of such credit memorandum to Bank, upon request from Bank. In the event any attempted return occurs after the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, Borrower shall hold the returned Inventory in trust for Bank, and immediately notify Bank of the return of the Inventory.
Company Tax Returns The Company shall file all tax returns, if any, required to be filed by the Company.
Information Returns At the Closing or as soon thereafter as is practicable, Seller shall provide Purchaser with a list of all Deposits on which Seller is back-up withholding as of the Closing Date.
Income Tax Returns Borrower has no knowledge of any pending assessments or adjustments of its income tax payable with respect to any year.
Taxes and Returns (a) Each Target Company has or will have timely filed, or caused to be timely filed, all Tax Returns and reports required to be filed by it (taking into account all available extensions), which Tax Returns are true, accurate, correct and complete in all material respects, and has paid, collected or withheld, or caused to be paid, collected or withheld, all Taxes required to be paid, collected or withheld, other than such Taxes for which adequate reserves in the Company Financials have been established in accordance with GAAP. Schedule 4.14(a) sets forth each jurisdiction in which each Target Company files or is required to file a Tax Return. Each Target Company has complied with all applicable Laws relating to Tax.
(b) There is no current pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened Action against a Target Company by a Governmental Authority in a jurisdiction where the Target Company does not file Tax Returns that it is or may be subject to taxation by that jurisdiction.
(c) No Target Company is being audited by any Tax authority or has been notified in writing or, to the Knowledge of the Company, orally by any Tax authority that any such audit is contemplated or pending. There are no claims, assessments, audits, examinations, investigations or other Actions pending against a Target Company in respect of any Tax, and no Target Company has been notified in writing of any proposed Tax claims or assessments against it (other than, in each case, claims or assessments for which adequate reserves in the Company Financials have been established).
(d) There are no Liens with respect to any Taxes upon any Target Company’s assets, other than Permitted Liens.
(e) Each Target Company has collected or withheld all Taxes currently required to be collected or withheld by it, and all such Taxes have been paid to the appropriate Governmental Authorities or set aside in appropriate accounts for future payment when due.
(f) No Target Company has any outstanding waivers or extensions of any applicable statute of limitations to assess any amount of Taxes. There are no outstanding requests by a Target Company for any extension of time within which to file any Tax Return or within which to pay any Taxes shown to be due on any Tax Return.
(g) No Target Company has made any change in accounting method or received a ruling from, or signed an agreement with, any taxing authority that would reasonably be expected to have a material impact on its Taxes following the Closing.
(h) No Target Company has any Liability for the Taxes of another Person (other than another Target Company) (i) under any applicable Tax Law, (ii) as a transferee or successor, or (iii) by contract, indemnity or otherwise. No Target Company is a party to or bound by any Tax indemnity agreement, Tax sharing agreement or Tax allocation agreement or similar agreement, arrangement or practice with respect to Taxes (including advance pricing agreement, closing agreement or other agreement relating to Taxes with any Governmental Authority) that will be binding on the Company or its Subsidiaries with respect to any period following the Closing Date.
(i) No Target Company has requested, or is the subject of or bound by any private letter ruling, technical advice memorandum, closing agreement or similar ruling, memorandum or agreement with any Governmental Authority with respect to any Taxes, nor is any such request outstanding.
Tax Returns; Taxes (a) Except as otherwise disclosed on Schedule 4.15(a): (i) all Tax Returns of the Company and each Subsidiary due to have been filed through the date hereof in accordance with any applicable Law have been duly filed and are correct and complete in all material respects; (ii) all Taxes, deposits of Taxes or other payments relating to Taxes due and owing by the Company and each Subsidiary (whether or not shown on any Tax Return) have been paid in full; (iii) there are not now any extensions of time in effect with respect to the dates on which any Tax Returns of the Company or any Subsidiary were or are due to be filed; (iv) all deficiencies asserted as a result of any examination of any Tax Returns of the Company or any Subsidiary have been paid in full, accrued on the books of the Company or a Subsidiary, as applicable, or finally settled, and no issue has been raised in any such examination which, by application of the same or similar principles, reasonably could be expected to result in a proposed deficiency for any other period not so examined; (v) no claims have been asserted and no proposals or deficiencies for any Taxes of the Company or any Subsidiary are being asserted, proposed or, to the Knowledge of any Member, threatened, and no audit or investigation of any Tax Return of the Company or any Subsidiary is currently underway, pending or, to the Knowledge of any Member, threatened; (vi) no claim has ever been made by a Taxing authority in a jurisdiction in which the Company or any Subsidiary does not file Tax Returns that it is or may be subject to taxation by that jurisdiction; (vii) the Company and each Subsidiary has withheld and paid all Taxes required to have been withheld and paid in connection with amounts paid or owing to any employee, independent contractor, creditor, equity holder or other third party; (viii) there are no outstanding waivers or agreements by or on behalf of the Company or any Subsidiary for the extension of time for the assessment of any Taxes or deficiency thereof, nor are there any requests for rulings, outstanding subpoenas or requests for information, notice of proposed reassessment of any property owned or leased by the Company or any Subsidiary or any other matter pending between the Company or any Subsidiary and any Taxing authority; (ix) there are no Liens against any assets or property of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries for Taxes (other than Liens for Taxes which are not yet due and payable), nor are there any such Liens for Taxes which are pending or, to the Knowledge of any Member, threatened; (x) neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is a party to any Tax allocation, sharing or indemnification agreement under which the Company or any Subsidiary will have any Liability after the Closing; (xi) neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has any Liability for the Taxes of any Person (other than for itself) under U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1502-6 (or any similar provision of Law), as a transferee or successor, by contract, or otherwise; and (xiii) the Company and each Subsidiary has at all times used proper accounting methods and periods in computing their Tax Liability.
(b) Except as set forth on Schedule 4.15(b), the Company has delivered to the Purchaser correct and complete copies of all Tax Returns (together with any agent’s reports and any accountants’ work papers) relating to its respective operations and each of its Subsidiaries for taxable periods ended on or after December 31, 2014.
(c) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has been a party to any “reportable transaction” as defined in Treasury Regulations Section 1.6011-4(b).
(d) The Company has, at all times since the date of its formation, been classified for federal (and all applicable state and local) income tax purposes as a partnership and not as a corporation, an association taxable as a corporation or a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation. Each Subsidiary of the Company has, at all times since the date of its formation, been classified for federal (and all applicable state and local) income tax purposes as a disregarded entity.
(e) The Company has not elected to have the revised partnership tax audit procedures set forth in Subchapter C of Subtitle A, Chapter 63 of the Code, as amended by the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, P.L. 114-74 (together with any subsequent amendments thereto, Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder and published administrative interpretations thereof, the “Revised Partnership Tax Audit Procedures”) apply to the Company, including by way of an election under Treasury Regulations Section 301.9100-22T.
Tax Returns, Payments and Elections The Company has filed all tax returns and reports (including information returns and reports) as required by law. These returns and reports are true and correct in all material respects except to the extent that a reserve has been reflected on the Financial Statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. The Company has paid all taxes and other assessments due, except those contested by it in good faith that are listed in the Schedule of Exceptions and except to the extent that a reserve has been reflected on the Financial Statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. The provision for taxes of the Company as shown in the Financial Statements is adequate for taxes due or accrued as of the date thereof. The Company has not elected pursuant to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), to be treated as a Subchapter S corporation or a collapsible corporation pursuant to Section 1362(a) or Section 341(f) of the Code, nor has it made any other elections pursuant to the Code (other than elections that relate solely to methods of accounting, depreciation or amortization) that would have a material effect on the Company, its financial condition, its business as presently conducted or proposed to be conducted or any of its properties or material assets. The Company has never had any tax deficiency proposed or assessed against it and has not executed any waiver of any statute of limitations on the assessment or collection of any tax or governmental charge. None of the Company’s federal income tax returns and none of its state income or franchise tax or sales or use tax returns have ever been audited by governmental authorities. Since the Financial Statement Date, the Company has not incurred any taxes, assessments or governmental charges other than in the ordinary course of business and the Company has made adequate provisions on its books of account for all taxes, assessments and governmental charges with respect to its business, properties and operations for such period. The Company has withheld or collected from each payment made to each of its employees, the amount of all taxes (including, but not limited to, federal income taxes, Federal Insurance Contribution Act taxes and Federal Unemployment Tax Act taxes) required to be withheld or collected therefrom, and has paid the same to the proper tax receiving officers or authorized depositories.
Separate Returns In the case of any Tax Contest with respect to any Separate Return, the Party having the liability for the Tax pursuant to Article II hereof shall have the sole responsibility and right to control the prosecution of such Tax Contest, including the exclusive right to communicate with agents of the applicable Taxing Authority and to control, resolve, settle, or agree to any deficiency, claim, or adjustment proposed, asserted, or assessed in connection with or as a result of such Tax Contest.
