There's a very simple reason why real estate tends to be held in limited partnerships rather than corporations and that reason is the corporate profits tax.

人们之所以,通过有限合伙的形式来持有商业房产,而不是以公司的形式来持有商业房产,其原因非常简单,那就是公司利润税

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A limited partnership is one kind of DPP and it has--it's not a corporation, so it's a partnership.

有限合伙制是DPP的一种,它不是公司制,而是合伙制

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