“Straddle Period” means any taxable year or period beginning on or before and ending after the Closing Date.
“Subsidiary” of any Person means another Person, of which at least a majority of the securities or ownership interests having by their terms ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the board of directors or other Persons performing similar functions is owned or controlled directly or indirectly by such first person or by one or more of its Subsidiaries.
“Stockholder Tax Contest Claim” has the meaning given to such term in Section 5.3(d).
“Taxes” (including with correlative meaning “Tax” and “Taxable”) means (a) any and all taxes, and any and all other charges, fees, levies, duties, deficiencies, customs or other similar assessments or liabilities in the nature of a tax, including without limitation any income, gross receipts, ad valorem, net worth, premium, value-added, alternative or add-on minimum, excise, severance, stamp, occupation, windfall profits, real property, personal property, assets, sales, use, capital stock, capital gains, documentary, recapture, transfer, transfer gains, estimated, withholding, employment, unemployment insurance, unemployment compensation, social security, business license, business organization, environmental, workers compensation, payroll, profits, license, lease, service, service use, gains, franchise and other taxes imposed by any federal, state, local, or foreign Governmental Entity, and (b) any interest, fines, penalties, assessments, or additions resulting from, attributable to, or incurred in connection with any items described in this paragraph or any contest or dispute thereof.
“Taxpayer” means the Acquired Companies and any predecessor to any of the foregoing.
“Tax Returns” means any and all reports, returns, declarations, statements, forms, elections, or other information supplied or required to be supplied to a Governmental Entity in connection with Taxes and any associated schedules, attachments, work papers or other information provided in connection with such items, including any amendments thereof, and, for the avoidance of doubt, including TD Form 90-22.1 (and its successor form, FinCEN Form 114).
“Technology” means all Software, content, websites, technical data, subroutines, tools, materials, invention disclosures, improvements, apparatus, creations, works of authorship and other similar materials, and all recordings, graphs, drawings, reports, analyses, documentation, user manuals and other writings, and other tangible embodiments of the foregoing, in any form whether or not specifically listed herein.
“Third Party Action” means any suit or proceeding by a Person or entity other than a Party for which indemnification may be sought by a Party under Article VI.
“to the knowledge of the Stockholders” and any phrase of similar import means the knowledge of the Stockholders, Chris Seitz, William Bachrach (COO) and Phyllis Ludwig (CFO), as well as any other knowledge which any such Person would have possessed had he or she made reasonable inquiry of appropriate senior management employees of the Acquired Companies with respect to the matter in question.
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