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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJim Hightower: Demanding tax “reform,” CEOs of profiteering multinationals are fooling noone
from Salon:
Corporate tax dodgers: Demanding tax reform, superrich CEOs of profiteering multinationals are fooling no one
Takeover specialist Carl Icahn whines that companies with foreign sales are being doubly taxed. Wrong
JIM HIGHTOWER
Carl Icahn, noted corporate predator and takeover specialist who made billions of dollars in corporate deals, has recently begun pushing a charitable cause involving a group of people who, through no fault of their own, are being forced out of America. Syrian migrants whove lost everything, you ask? Or maybe Central American children fleeing the horrors of drug wars? Nope, none of those foreign sob stories for Icahn. Rather, he weeps for the incomprehensible suffering of a small tribe of Americans, namely: the CEOs of several U.S.-based multinational corporations.
You see, Carl is fronting for CEOs of a small group of huge multinational conglomerates who are demanding that Congress drastically slash the taxes they owe on foreign sales of their products. This reform would let them escape paying most of the $600 billion in taxes that U.S. law assesses on some $2.6 trillion in profits theyve been hiding in foreign bank accounts and offshore tax havens. Three-fourths of these hidden profits belong to only 50 enormously profitable corporations.
In a recent heart-wrenching op-ed, he wails that poor superrich chieftains of such profiteering giants as Pfizer pharmaceuticals are having to move their corporate domains abroad, having been driven out of the USA by our uncompetitive tax code. These American-raised corporations have been raking in enormous profits on foreign sales, but the CEOs have whined that those profits should be exempt from U.S. taxation, since theyre taxed by the countries where their products are sold.
In fact, their double taxation claim is a fraud, for most of that $2.6 trillion in profits is subject to zero in taxes. These rank corporate tax dodgers are starving Americas essential public services of $600 billion they owe us taxpayers, yet Icahn sobs in print that they are the victims. If these trillions are brought back home, he explains, theyll be taxed so, dont you see, this forces CEOs to desert the U.S., moving their corporate citizenship to a place that doesnt make them pay for public services. ...................(more)
http://www.salon.com/2016/01/08/corporate_tax_dodgers_demanding_tax_reform_superrich_ceos_of_profiteering_multinationals_are_fooling_no_one/
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Jim Hightower: Demanding tax “reform,” CEOs of profiteering multinationals are fooling noone (Original Post)
marmar
Jan 2016
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mmonk
(52,589 posts)1. I have one investment with Icahn
(a partnership) I have held onto even though I profoundly disagree with the propaganda he spins. In the interim days, he worked on buying the rest of our interests back to a "profit" for us. I didn't believe him (because I knew he was doing it for his self interest and declined). I'm now paid quarterly for more than my initial investment year after year.