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Goldman Sachs has warned that it will take a $5bn hit to fourth-quarter profits as a result of president Donald Trump’s tax reforms, mostly because of a new levy on overseas earnings that are repatriated to the US.

The investment bank said that two-thirds of the negative impact on its earnings from the tax changes would result from the “repatriation tax” that is being introduced to encourage US companies to bring their vast overseas cash piles back home.

It added in a filing to the Securities and Exchanges Commission on Friday that the rest of the hit to its earnings would come from “the implementation of the territorial tax system and the remeasurement of US deferred tax assets at lower enacted corporate tax rates”.

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Investors have been expecting banks to be among the biggest beneficiaries from the sweeping changes to the US tax code that were signed into law by Mr Trump a few days before Christmas.

Analysts have estimated that the cut in US federal corporation tax from 35 per cent to 21 per cent from the start of next year will boost the earnings of the biggest US banks by about a fifth. However, there are some negative side-effects for the sector.

Several big banks — such as Bank of America and Barclays — have already warned that the tax changes will lead to a multibillion-dollar reduction in the accounting value of their deferred tax assets.

Goldman, which is due to report fourth-quarter results on January 17, said: “The impact of the tax legislation may differ from this estimate, possibly materially, due to, among other things, changes in interpretations and assumptions the firm has made, guidance that may be issued and actions the firm may take as a result of the tax legislation.”

Analysts have estimated that Goldman will report adjusted net profits of $1.8bn in the fourth-quarter, according to Bloomberg, so the $5bn negative tax impact is likely to drag the Wall Street bank to a quarterly loss for the period. In the nine months to September it made an overall net profit of $5.8bn.