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===Hedging activities===
===[[13 - Equity Derivatives Provision|Hedging]] activities===
An enormous wodge of text which states the bleeding obvious. It is well-meaningly intended to disarm [[tax lawyer|paranoid tax lawyers]]<ref>Are there any other kinds?</ref> who worry that an [[equity derivative]] (especially a [[delta-one]] [[synthetic prime brokerage]] transaction) might look like a wheeze to do the taxman out of stamp duty or other transaction tax attaching to a cash equity trade. This acknowledgment is meant to encourage the taxman not to [[recharacterisation|recharacterise]] the derivative as a cash equity order in disguise.
An enormous wodge of text which states the bleeding obvious. It is well-meaningly intended to disarm [[tax lawyer|paranoid tax lawyers]]<ref>Are there any other kinds?</ref> who worry that an [[equity derivative]] (especially a [[delta-one]] [[synthetic prime brokerage]] transaction) might look like a wheeze to do the taxman out of stamp duty or other transaction tax attaching to a cash equity trade. This acknowledgment is meant to encourage the taxman not to [[recharacterisation|recharacterise]] the derivative as a cash equity order in disguise.


It has, as the Bard put it, a “methinks the lady doth protest too much” feel about it, but you will see it applied in the synthetic PB space. Though it would be an odd hedge about which these characteristics did not apply.
It has, as the Bard put it, a “methinks the lady doth protest too much” feel about it, but you will see it applied in the synthetic PB space. Though it would be an odd hedge about which these characteristics did not apply.