Univercell Holdings (UVCL)

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Tax Loss Carry Forward ...


Additionally, many shell companies carry forward what is known as a tax-loss. This means that a loss incurred in previous years can be applied to income in future years. This shelters future income from income taxes. Since most active public companies become dormant public companies after a string of losses, or at least one large one, it is more likely that a shell company will offer this tax shelter.

It is highly unusual to preserve any benefit from the tax loss carry forward in a shell company. The tsx regs. normally reduce the loss carry forward by the percentage of the change in control. In a well structured reverse merger the private company should end up with 95% or more of the stock after the merger, thus reducing the tax loss carry forward by this amount for greater

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_merger