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&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman" size="2"&gt;The Company is
treated as a partnership for income tax purposes and is therefore
not subject to U.S. Federal and State income taxes; however, APO
Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, is subject to U.S.
Federal, State and Local corporate income taxes. In addition,
certain subsidiaries of the Company are subject to New York City
Unincorporated Business Tax (&amp;#x201C;NYC UBT&amp;#x201D;) attributable to
the Company&amp;#x2019;s operations apportioned to New York City.
Certain non-U.S. subsidiaries of the Company are subject to income
taxes in their local jurisdictions. APO Corp. is required to file a
standalone Federal corporate income tax return, as well as file
standalone corporate state and local income tax returns in
California, New York State and New York City. The Company&amp;#x2019;s
provision for income taxes is accounted for in accordance with U.S.
GAAP.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman" size="2"&gt;The
Company&amp;#x2019;s provision for income taxes totaled $18.1 million
and $10.7 million for the three months ended June&amp;#xA0;30, 2013 and
2012, respectively, and $36.7 million and $25.2 million for the six
months ended June&amp;#xA0;30, 2013 and 2012, respectively. The
Company&amp;#x2019;s effective tax rate was approximately 10.90% and
0.58% for the three months ended June&amp;#xA0;30, 2013 and 2012,
respectively, and 3.73% and 1.10% for the six months ended
June&amp;#xA0;30, 2013 and 2012, respectively.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-TOP: 12px; TEXT-INDENT: 8%; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"&gt;
&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman" size="2"&gt;Under U.S.
GAAP, a tax benefit from an uncertain tax position may be
recognized when it is more likely than not that the position will
be sustained upon examination, including resolutions of any related
appeals or litigation processes, based on the technical merits.
Based upon the Company&amp;#x2019;s review of its federal, state, local
and foreign income tax returns and tax filing positions, the
Company determined that no unrecognized tax benefits for uncertain
tax positions were required to be recorded. In addition, the
Company does not believe that it has any tax positions for which it
is reasonably possible that it will be required to record
significant amounts of unrecognized tax benefits within the next
twelve months.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman" size="2"&gt;The Company
files its tax returns as prescribed by the tax laws of the
jurisdictions in which it operates. In the normal course of
business, the Company is subject to examination by federal and
certain state, local and foreign tax authorities. With a few
exceptions, as of June&amp;#xA0;30, 2013, Apollo and its predecessor
entities&amp;#x2019; U.S. Federal, state, local and foreign income tax
returns for the years 2008 through 2012 are open under the general
statute of limitations provisions and therefore subject to
examination. In addition, the State of New York is examining APO
Corp.&amp;#x2019;s tax returns for tax years 2008 to 2010 and the
Internal Revenue Service is examining APO Corp.&amp;#x2019;s tax returns
for tax years 2010 and 2011 in connection with the NOL carryback
claim from tax year 2011 to tax year 2010.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-TOP: 12px; TEXT-INDENT: 8%; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"&gt;
&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman" size="2"&gt;The Company has
recorded a deferred tax asset for the future amortization of tax
basis intangibles as a result of the 2007 Reorganization. In
connection with the Secondary Offering, as disclosed in note 1, the
Company recognized an additional step-up in tax basis of
intangibles as a result of the exchange of AOG units for
Class&amp;#xA0;A shares in May 2013, resulting in an increase of $92.1
million in the deferred tax asset established from the 2007
Reorganization which was recorded in deferred tax assets in the
condensed consolidated statements of financial condition for the
expected tax benefit associated with this increase. A
related&amp;#xA0;tax receivable agreement&amp;#xA0;liability of $78.3
million was recorded in due to affiliates in the condensed
consolidated statements of financial condition for the expected
payments under the tax receivable agreement entered into by and
among APO Corp., the Managing Partners, the Contributing Partners,
and other parties thereto (as amended, the "tax receivable
agreement") (see note 11). The increase in the deferred tax asset
less the related liability resulted in the increase to additional
paid-in capital of $13.8 million which was recorded in the
condensed consolidated statements of changes in shareholders&amp;#x2019;
equity for the six months ended June&amp;#xA0;30, 2013. The
amortization period for these tax basis intangibles is 15 years.
Accordingly, the related deferred tax assets will reverse over the
same period.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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