One life insurance benefit that drives sales in the U. s. is the strategy of using the tax-free proceeds from the policy to pay estate taxes.

在美国，人寿保险卖得好的一个原因是财产继承人可以用免税的保险金来支付遗产税。

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Shell's first quarter results were also boosted by proceeds from asset sales, which included sales in its pipeline business in the United States, its liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) venture in Vietnam and the majority of Shell's shareholding in its downstream business in Uganda.

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Tilton also gets fee income as collateral manager of Patriarch's and other funds and, to the extent she holds equity, from proceeds of company sales.

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Those include forms 1099-B (for reporting of proceeds from brokers and barter exchanges), 1099-S (for reporting real estate sales) and the ever popular 1099- MISC (if amounts are reported in boxes 8 or 14).

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