Debt and equity can sometimes have very different income tax consequences. When an instrument denominated as debt has “equity-like” features, the question arises as to whether it should be respected as debt or recharacterized as equity for income tax purposes.

In a recent opinion, the Tax Court came to a taxpayer-friendly result on this issue, holding that a mortgage loan with equity-like features should be respected as debt for income tax purposes.

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