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by Declanomous 3136 days ago
Somehow that part of the article didn't click for me. The NYT article linked in the following sentence does a great job of explaining why they are being taxed if you don't have a finance background.
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Yeah I think ICIJ's outrage-bait here is a swing and a miss.

UBIT 40% tax on charities was not created to hit university endowments. This is a reason to use an offshore entity.

UBIT 40% tax on charities was not created to hit university endowments

So you're saying we can all simply pick and choose which laws were created with us in mind?

obviously you can, not sure what the argument here is.