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Old 12-20-2009, 06:54 PM
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Its my understanding that MLPs, in essence, pay you a "Return of Capital" that allows such payments to be "Tax "Deffered". When this happens your principal declines so when you eventual sell or your estate sells, your basis may be zero or close to it and you will have to pay tax at that timeand teh then going rate of tax.
To me MLPs sound like a head ache for record keeping purposes!