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Week 7-Forum

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Q Define the term "alter-ego" and list the elements the court considered when determining whether to pierce the corporate shield. Incorporate the material from the required readings and support your statements. In addition, discuss whether it is ethical for a company to move its corporate headquarters overseas to avoid paying income tax. Which duty do you believe is higher, the duty of corporations to pay tax to government or the duty of corporations to pay dividends to shareholders? Why?

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An alter-ego simply means, “Alternative self” that is further believed to be completely different from an individual’s normal or the actual personality. Figuring out an individual’s state of alter-ego lay emphasis on figuring out one other’s self, considering a completely different personality. A very distinctive meaning of alter ego is found mostly in literary evaluation that is used especially when referring to fictional literature as well as other narrative forms that describes mainly the key character ans in the story who is professed to have been given the position of knowingly representing the work’s author may be by virtue of slanting comparisons especially in terms of psychology, conduct, speech or thinking style that is more often used to convey an author’s individual thought (Maffei, 2011).