Re:We set up an offshore company in a tax haven
by AmericanChopper on Friday October 08, 2021 @05:40AM
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They can’t act as individuals. This is a falsehood perpetuated by people who want to make witty hot takes.
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Re:We set up an offshore company in a tax haven
by shapefrog on Friday October 08, 2021 @06:15AM
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God damn the Supreme Court and their perpetuating of falsehoods with witty hot takes.
Re:We set up an offshore company in a tax haven
by AmericanChopper on Friday October 08, 2021 @06:27AM
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The Supreme Court has never ruled that corporations are people. They ruled that corporations have 1st amendment protections. But yes, that was exactly the type of substance-free hot take I’m talking about.
Re:We set up an offshore company in a tax haven
by dragonwriter on Friday October 08, 2021 @06:35AM
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> The Supreme Court has never ruled that corporations are people.
“Under the designation of ‘person’ there is no doubt that a private corporation is included.” Pembina Consolidated Silver Min. & Milling Co. v. Pennsylvania, 125 U.S. 181 (1888).
Among others. That corporations are people has never really been substantially in dispute (legal personhood is fairly expressly the central point of the corporate form as an innovation where partnerships already existed), though whether particular references to person, persons, or people in the law are intended to refer to all legal persons or only specifically to natural persons is sometimes in dispute.