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Carl Levin: “Well, how can an arm's-length standard be applied when you have a wholly owned subsidiary, a controlled foreign…”

On the recordSeptember 19, 2012
Well, how can an arm's-length standard be applied when you have a wholly owned subsidiary, a controlled foreign corporation, where you are setting some kind of a price for an asset that is being transferred?
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Carl Levin
Democratic · Michigan

Editor's note · Context

Questioning the application of arm's-length standards in related-party transactions.

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