Well, we passed a law in 2010 talking about economic substance saying that something has got to be real, it cannot be fake, and we are going after these totally phony transactions, which is what this is acknowledged to be. It is a shell. It is a sham.
Levin emphasizes the need for genuine economic substance in transactions to combat tax evasion.
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