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Rob Portman: “If you lowered the corporate rate and did so by getting rid of some of the existing preferences and those preferences…”

On the recordSeptember 12, 2011
If you lowered the corporate rate and did so by getting rid of some of the existing preferences and those preferences also applied to the pass-throughs, it would seem unfair.
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Rob Portman
Republican · Ohio

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Portman discusses the potential unfairness of tax reforms affecting pass-through businesses.

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