The AMT is getting extended year by year anyway so why not just deal with that one time and get it off the books.

既然越来越多的人需要交替代性最低税,何不一了百了，让大家都交,然后废掉不就结了。

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After Macaulay got word at a dinner that Dresser-Rand might be turning around, he approached Ingersoll-Rand with a deal to get the unit off its books without taking a writedown.

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Helping them to close their books in September would not deal with the banks' basic challenges: how to write off bad loans and where to get the money to do it.

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