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Investors can delay capital gains tax by not selling their shares. If they delay them until they die, they don't pay capital gains at all. (Step-up basis for their heirs.)

You kind of want to collect at least some taxes in the year the economic activity happened.




This would be a tax on income not on capital gains. The entities would have to pay out some amount of money to shareholders to cover their tax liability.




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