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<title>Fairness in International Taxation Act</title>
<summary summary-id="id113hr1556v00" currentChamber="HOUSE" update-date="2013-04-30">
<action-date>2013-04-15</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>Fairness in International Taxation Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit a reduction under any treaty of the United States of tax withholding for a tax deductible payment made between persons who are members of the same foreign controlled group of entities unless there would be a similar reduction for payments made directly to the foreign parent corporation of such entities. </p>]]></summary-text>
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<dc:contributor>Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress</dc:contributor>
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