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They employ equity capital, coupled with substantial amounts of debt financing, in making real estate loans and investments. Real estate investment trusts must distribute substantially all of their taxable income to their shareholders annually in order to retain their favorable tax status (that is, dividends paid are treated as deductions in arriving at taxable income).\"><span>real estate investment trusts</span></a>.<span class=\"sfragment\" id=\"sfr_2BB93D00-6E94-1014-A13F-6E4B94C84136\"><span class=\"sfragment-source\"> The accounting issues discussed in this Topic may also be encountered by other entities which are not real estate investment trusts but which are engaged in the business of making loans on or investing in real estate. The conclusions in this Topic may, therefore, also be appropriate for those entities. 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