If the premiums are paid by employer, the outlays are both treated as an expense for the business and are exempt from taxation as income to employees.

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They demand more government regulation, taxation and policing to secure their own welfare and security at the expense of everyone else.

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The administration is right to call for closing this loophole and if we went to a system of territorial taxation, the correct course would be to go farther and disallow deduction of foreign interest expense, rather than just deferring it.

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