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The operative reported amendment principally restricts officials' investments and improves disclosure. Extending the divestiture tax-deferral mechanism to covered officials is a small, explicit class benefit, scored separately from the anti-conflict restrictions and their limitations. The deferral facilitates compliance and does not establish tax forgiveness, improper motive or personal profiteering.
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The amendment expands eligibility for the tax-treatment mechanism tied to required divestiture to a specified class of elected officials. This is a limited private financial benefit, even though it supports compliance.
“or a covered person (as defined in section 13161 of title 5, United States Code)”
Why the risk may be smaller: The mechanism concerns qualifying divestiture and reinvestment under referenced tax rules; tax deferral is not tax forgiveness, and forced divestment can create legitimate compliance costs.
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