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The Car Rental Sales Tax Swap Scam

Car rental corporate consolidation, funded by you

February 21, 2023 • by Pat Garofalo
Big car rental corporations did a very good job sweeping across the country collecting what is a massive backdoor tax subsidy on the purchase of their main business asset....

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