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CCA Pays $54 Million to IRS and Settles Gender Discrimination Complaint
Loaded on May 15, 2003
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2003, page 13
On October 28, 2002, Corrections Corp. of America, (CCA) settled its 1997 federal taxes after an audit by the Internal Revenue Service for the sum of $54 million. The IRS challenged the validity of the tax deductions that the former Prison Realty, a real estate investment trust (REIT) had claimed …
Filed under:
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
Financing,
Contractor Misconduct,
Gender Discrimination -- Women,
Money/Property,
Tax Law,
Employee Litigation.
Locations:
Oklahoma,
Tennessee.
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