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Last summer, when the Senate began committee debates about closing loopholes which permit Private Equity Fund partners to pay capital gain tax rates on income from businesses they manage instead of ordinary income tax rates as normal investment banks like Goldman Sachs do, Senator Schumer, who is quite sensitive to his local constutuency of Private Equity partners, was said to oppose the change.
