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Real estate investment trust

A qualifying real estate investment trust is one which has at least 100 beneficial owners and which distributes at least 95 percent of its income. The income from the distribution is taxed only once, and only to the beneficiaries. The trust may not be a personal holding company; it must elect to be treated as a real estate investment trust; and it may not hold property primarily for sale to customers.