Running to about 1,000 pages, the U.S. tax package known as the “big beautiful bill” covers a bewildering array of topics. Yet one tweak that ought to have been included wasn’t: the “carried interest” distortion that plumps the feather beds of private equity executives, the Financial Times reports.
Private Equity Tax Break Survives Again
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