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Lloyd Doggett: “I think this is an important provision to restore tax fairness, by recognizing that if you have a shell corporation…”

On the recordMarch 30, 2009
I think this is an important provision to restore tax fairness, by recognizing that if you have a shell corporation abroad, and it's really a United States company, that just having a paper certificate and a sunny tax haven, is not enough to make you foreign.
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Lloyd Doggett
Democratic · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Doggett advocates for treating certain foreign corporations as domestic for tax purposes.

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