• raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Basically, very rich people got reimbursed taxes for losses that never manifested (or twice for the same thing, I think both schemes existed)

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      3 hours ago

      that’s not what i’m asking. i know how to buy losses. i can set you up with losses if you want to buy losses, same way the rich folk are doing. it’s a very uncomplicated scheme. i’m asking what the Cum and Ex in CumCum or CumEx are short for so i can look it up and do my own research without googling Cum how much more explicit can i be

      like how FedEx means Federal Express

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        1 hour ago

        that I can’t help you with, I never cared enough about the exact terminology for “billionaire parasites stole billions from the German taxpayer and got away with it”

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          right right when i wrote that comment, i had just been on hold for four godsdamned hours and then they answered. and then my phone’s battery died. this fucking day i hate being on hold they are going to go home before they answer again.