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        <text><![CDATA[ <p><b>Removing Onerous Obstacles in the Tax code for Mainstreet Businesses Act or the ROOT for Mainstreet Businesses Act </b></p> <p>This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify the tax treatment of personal holding companies. </p> <p>The bill excludes from the definition of &quot;personal holding company&quot; a corporation with greater than 50% stock ownership held by nonresident alien individuals with no effectively connected income under tax provisions regarding expatriation to avoid tax or the taxation of nonresident alien individuals. </p> <p>The bill also excludes from personal holding company income certain rents and royalties that are derived in the active conduct of a trade or business and are not received from a related person. </p>]]></text>
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