But the most successful technique is to structure your company so that you can separate the right to a return (income) from the right to a say in how the company is run (control).The most popular way to do this is by pyramiding.
In order to avoid such pyramiding of taxes, an increasing number of governments employ a value-added tax (VAT).
Here is a sample of the self-inflicted but pleasant torture of pyramiding.
Some in the world of taxes would describe that as pyramiding.
He explained that deposit insurance and limits on leverage meant "you won't get the pyramiding effect" that cracked the financial system in 1929.
Two decades later, we did get such a pyramiding effect, and Great Depression II was avoided only through giant bailouts and unprecedented moves by the Federal Reserve.
She knew "good days," and occasionally they accumulated into weeks, months, but even on the best of the good days, those days when she was otherwise her "old self," the affectionate and charming Bonnie her friends cherished, she could not summon the social vitality her husband's pyramiding activities required.
Sometimes these details have an anguished vividness, like the seemingly benign "sandwich" game -- one arm atop the other, pyramiding into the air -- that the pedophile (David Haig) plays with the little girl he's drawn to in "Playing Sandwiches".
A 1957 feature story in The New York Post said Mr. McCrary had the knack "for making, manipulating and pyramiding friendships".
That grim reality has been masked by the flimflammery of official statistics (job growth good, inflation low) and the muscular magic of the American way of debt: mortgages on top of mortgages, pyramiding student loans and an opiatelike addiction to credit cards at rates that used to get people locked up for loan-sharking.
