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The corporations got their tax break, for moving out of the USA
Getting re-elected calls for campaign donations from wealthy corporations!
'Huge Number' of Tax-Dodging Corporations Preparing to Expatriate
Dozens of major U.S. corporations are preparing to jump ship in a mass wave of tax-dodging corporate expatriation, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.
According to Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) a "huge number" of companies are currently shifting their headquarters offshore or are contemplating deals to do so thanks to a tax loophole called "corporate inversion."
"They are taking advantage of all the good things that our government helps provide," and then running out on the bill," said Sen. Elizabeth Warren during a speech before the U.S. Senate last week.
In the past ten years, 47 major corporations have shifted their base abroad—at least on paper—and another dozen have their move in the works.
http://www.commondreams.org/news/20...tax-dodging-corporations-preparing-expatriate
WASHINGTON — Republican senators blocked an election-year bill Wednesday to limit tax breaks for US companies that move operations overseas.
The bill would have prohibited companies from deducting expenses related to moving their operations to a foreign country. It also would have offered tax credits to companies that move operations to the United States from a foreign country.
The Senate voted 54 to 42 to end debate on the bill, six short of the 60 votes needed to advance it. The White House says President Obama supports the legislation.
‘‘Today in the United States, any time an American company closes a factory or plant in America and moves operations to another country, the American taxpayers pick up part of that moving bill,’’ said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat. ‘‘Frankly, a vote against this bill is a vote against American jobs.’’
http://www.bostonglobe.com/business...ng-overseas/F3nppahkjKqPJ6ZfRAvyRL/story.html
Getting re-elected calls for campaign donations from wealthy corporations!
'Huge Number' of Tax-Dodging Corporations Preparing to Expatriate
Dozens of major U.S. corporations are preparing to jump ship in a mass wave of tax-dodging corporate expatriation, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.
According to Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) a "huge number" of companies are currently shifting their headquarters offshore or are contemplating deals to do so thanks to a tax loophole called "corporate inversion."
"They are taking advantage of all the good things that our government helps provide," and then running out on the bill," said Sen. Elizabeth Warren during a speech before the U.S. Senate last week.
In the past ten years, 47 major corporations have shifted their base abroad—at least on paper—and another dozen have their move in the works.
http://www.commondreams.org/news/20...tax-dodging-corporations-preparing-expatriate
WASHINGTON — Republican senators blocked an election-year bill Wednesday to limit tax breaks for US companies that move operations overseas.
The bill would have prohibited companies from deducting expenses related to moving their operations to a foreign country. It also would have offered tax credits to companies that move operations to the United States from a foreign country.
The Senate voted 54 to 42 to end debate on the bill, six short of the 60 votes needed to advance it. The White House says President Obama supports the legislation.
‘‘Today in the United States, any time an American company closes a factory or plant in America and moves operations to another country, the American taxpayers pick up part of that moving bill,’’ said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat. ‘‘Frankly, a vote against this bill is a vote against American jobs.’’
http://www.bostonglobe.com/business...ng-overseas/F3nppahkjKqPJ6ZfRAvyRL/story.html