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Some Fundamentals about Private Foundations

This article was originally published in the May 2008 (Issue 186) of Offshore Investment www.offshoreinvestment.com.

Private foundations have developed from the charitable foundations devised in the Middle Ages from principles of Roman law to allow religious bodies to have the use of property without offending their members' vows of povery; property was transferred to a separate legal entity managed in a way which did not give the occupants control. Read more.

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