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Well, not for Companies, but by creating Limited Liability Partnerships ("LLP's"), which are corporate bodies which can do everything a Company can do - but without the conflicts - and without themselves paying tax.
Instead, LLP Members pay tax in respect of the revenues or gains that flow through the LLP to them.. "The future is already here -- it's just not very evenly distributed" William Gibson
can these LLP's raise money in the public markets--equity and debt?
Debt, why not? If it's been done by a UK LLP, I haven't seen it.
As for "Equity", I am sure that has not been tried, but of course proportional "Equity Shares" are exactly what I am suggesting could be an optimal new "asset class", with more in common with units in a Canadian Income Trust than anything else.
Inside an LLP is a very strange twilight zone in accounting terms: a Member has an account with an LLP, and "Equity" and "Debt" are essentially continuous. "The future is already here -- it's just not very evenly distributed" William Gibson
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