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Except it's easy to break a corporation into many constituent parts. That's assuming there are any US based profits to tax. Most companies of a certain scale only make money in Ireland, the Netherlands and the Caymans.


> Except it's easy to break a corporation into many constituent parts.

Both the tax code as well as securities law already have something called "look-through" that deals with this.


To my understanding, that only works if the corporations are still owned by a master entity. It wouldn't do anything if, for instance, an apartment complex of 1,000 units was split into 1,000 corporations that paid a non-profit HOA, and each of the 1,000 corporations just happened to have the same ownership by natural persons.


> and each of the 1,000 corporations just happened to have the same ownership by natural persons.

That's called "common control". The tax code has been dealing with these shenanighans for decades:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/1563




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