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constructive dividend

A taxable benefit derived by a shareholder from the corporation even though the benefit was not designated a dividend. • Examples include excessive compensation, bargain purchases of corporate property, and shareholder use of corporate property. [Cases: Internal Revenue 3750–3768. C.J.S. Internal Revenue §§ 72, 389–390, 395.]

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ponzi scheme

Ponzi scheme (pon-zee). A fraudulent investment scheme in which money contributed by later investors generates artificially high dividends for the original investors, whose example attracts even larger investments. • Money from the new investors is used directly to repay or pay interest to earlier investors, usu. without any operation or revenue-producing activity other than the

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