The IRS, he says, was forcing him to award dividends within the old employee stock ownership plan in proportion to an individual's ownership in the company, thus excessively rewarding longtime employees at the expense of newer ones.

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To meet their ambitious profit-growth targets, Fannie and Freddie will need to undertake ever riskier lending, and to retain ownership of a growing proportion of mortgages.

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Finland enjoys a strong tradition of hunting and has a high proportion of gun ownership, with 2 million firearms owned in a nation of 5 million people.

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Entrepreneurs can divvy up the profits any way they choose, as opposed to shareholders in corporations, who have to carve them up in proportion to their percentage ownership in the company.

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Another advantage with LLCs: Entrepreneurs can divvy up profits any way they choose, as opposed to shareholders, who have to carve up the spoils in proportion to their percentage ownership in the corporation.

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Another advantage to LLCs is that entrepreneurs can divvy up profits any way they choose, whereas with shareholders, the spoils have to be carved up in proportion to each shareholder's percentage ownership in the corporation.

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