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Even as more large companies announce plans to take advantage of the inversion loophole to avoid taxes, Congress has refused to move on commonsense legislation that would put an end to inversions.
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Donald Trump ran his hotel and casino company into the ground at the same time that other gambling companies were making money like a one-armed bandit, reports Brett Arends.
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Efforts by the European Commission to crack down on multinationals using aggressive tax planning and so-called sweetheart deals to avoid or reduce their tax liabilities have been dealt a blow after...
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Oxfam has estimated more than £170billion owned by the wealthiest Britons is being held offshore in locations such as the Cayman Islands and Bermuda, which have lower tax rates.
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The Canada Revenue Agency may have violated its own guidelines when it made an amnesty offer to wealthy clients of KPMG, tax experts say. Some officials within the CRA were also upset with how this was handled, CBC has learned.
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Facebook's decision to start paying more tax in the UK suggests that multi-nationals may be beginning to bend to public pressure.
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Tax inversions like that announced by Tyco and Johnson Controls in January will always attract criticism but also serve to focus attention on the US tax system, according to Tyco’s chief executive.
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Unlike Les Standiford’s “Water to the Angels,” Weingarten’s engaging treatise was inspired not by curiosity about Mulholland Drive’s namesake but by the dam whose 1928 collapse killed more than 400 people.
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Never would our Founding Fathers or the people who fought for this land imagine that its current leaders would be willing to give up our water sovereignty to a foreign corporation for export.
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Dark Money: Its hard to trace, but its present at every level of politics - particularly in swing states like Colorado. In this election year, who exactly is behind that money,...
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The successful haul came on the back of a campaign appealing to people's conscience.
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Having launched and led the battle against offshore tax evasion, America is now part of the problem
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Backers and opponents of a proposed Nestlé water bottling plant in the Columbia River Gorge town of Cascade Locks have taken to the airwaves, to the phone lines, and to Salem to plead their case in advance of a May election...
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The Liberal government forecasts a $10-billion boost in revenues by having tax collectors get more aggressive about tax havens and tax debts.
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We can’t know for sure what Trump might be hiding, but if anyone is in a position to offer an informed theory, it’s David Cay Johnston. Johnston won a Pulitzer Prize working the tax beat for the New York Times and authored the seminal book, Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super-Rich–and Cheat Everybody Else.
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It’s hard enough for outsiders to know what’s even going on in tax havens, those notoriously secretive places...
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What do Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump have in common? Both seek an end to the use of offshore tax havens by corporate America.
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More Americans are renouncing their US citizenship because of the increasing pressures of complying with US tax laws - even though they do not live in the USA.
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Banks set up accounts in Jersey and Cayman to avoid tax and disburse bonuses.
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The Tax Justice Network examines the companies and countries that profit from lack of regulation, with host Naomi Fowler.
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The guilty include top heads of finance such as Citigroup’s Michael Corbat, Wells Fargo’s John G. Stumpf, and J.P. Morgan’s Jamie Dimon; power figures of the energy sector from Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant to former BP Oil CEO Tony Hayward; and chief players of the food industry, including Pepsico’s Indra Nooyi, Coca-Cola’s Muhtar Kent, and Nestlé’s Peter Brabeck-Letmathe.
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John Longworth, director general of the leading business lobby group, will will today launch a twin attack on tax avoidance by major corporations and David Cameron's deal to keep Britain in the EU.
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A Must Read: Jane Mayer's 'Dark Money' Uncovers Hidden History of Billionaire Kochs - BillMoyers.com
I brought home with me to read this weekend Jane Mayer's new book Dark Money: The Hidden History of Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right.
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At one time, tax havens took great pride in calling themselves just that, since low-tax jurisdictions provide people with freedom from oppressive taxation
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This development comes as no surprise to people of faith who understand that, Donald Trump's insulting, hateful rhetoric is considered ugly and, God doesn't like ugly.