Thursday, July 28, 2016

The Impact Of Corporate Tax Avoidance

The amount of money stashed overseas by U.S. multinationals has exploded in recent years, doubling between 2008 and 2014 to more than $2 trillion.

For some perspective on the numbers, cost-estimating website HowMuch.net crunched the most recent data and created a telling interactive chart.

Topping the list: Apple AAPL, +0.76% and its massive $181.1 billion overseas stash, a $70 billion increase from the prior year. That total corresponds to $59.2 billion in deferred taxes, which is enough to cover more than two-thirds of the federal budget for education, training and employment, according to the 2014 numbers compiled by Citizens for Tax Justice last October.

Elsewhere, General Electric’s GE, -0.37%  taxes could take care of almost 5% of our Social Security costs, while taxes from Microsoft MSFT, -0.04% had it kept its money in the U.S., could have covered a fifth of all federal spending on veteran’s benefits.

You can read the rest @
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/if-apple-paid-taxes-on-offshore-assets-itd-cover-most-of-the-us-education-budget-2016-07-27

Corporations are economic traitors. We The People authorize their charters, so why aren't they paying taxes? Because "our" Congress works for them, not for us.

Hint: Hillary likes this situation, Trump does not. Who's the fascist?

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