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Carl Levin: “They want to avoid triggering a tax? You do not think that is the whole purpose here, they want to avoid triggering a…”

On the recordJanuary 25, 2012
They want to avoid triggering a tax? You do not think that is the whole purpose here, they want to avoid triggering a tax?
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Carl Levin
Democratic · Michigan

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Questioning the intent behind using shell corporations to avoid taxes.

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