You should, in your fiduciary duties as a board member, be trying to help them lower their taxes.

作为受托人的董事,应该帮助他们降低税金

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They just wanted taxes and food and money and that sort of thing.

只想要税金，食物，金钱之类的东西。

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You don't want to give your shareholders taxes.

你不想让股东们缴纳税金

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People would invest in buildings solely for tax purposes because you could write off the depreciation on the building, so people were cynically setting up DPPs as tax shelters only.

人们可以仅仅为了避税而投资一幢大楼,因为你可以对大楼计提折旧,注,计提的折旧可以抵扣税前收益从而减少应交税金 所以讽刺的是DPP仅被当做了避税工具

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