Sentences with phrase «enjoys legal personality»

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Trusts enjoy, effectively, indefinite longevity (they have a finite existence, but it can be a good long time) and can have limited liability for benficiaries (but not for trustees) and have legal personality (in the form of the trustee) and yet we permit them to pass income through to their benefiaries to avoid tax at the trust level (so that, for example, most mutual fund trusts in Canada pay no income tax - in fact, if you look at their trust indentures, most of them are required to arrange their affairs so as not to pay tax).

As a first and preliminary step, the AG discusses whether legal persons enjoy personality rights.