** PLAY HERE: www.taxevaders.net** Bank of America, GE, Wells Fargo, Exxon-Mobil, BP, Chevron, Citi, Verizon, Microsoft, Facebook, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Blasted As Tax Evaders American taxpayers nationwide will have the opportunity to blast some of our country’s biggest tax-dodgers in a new video game, “Tax Evaders.” Inspired…
Clocks ticking. Do you know where the multinational profits are?
The clock is ticking and your personal tax filings are due on Monday. If you are like me you asked for an extension on your business tax filing that was due before this (S-corps and LLCs). So as you rush to get the taxes done or are checking with your…
Look who your taxes are subsidizing
As America gets ready to finalize their taxes, you need to check out these three very short (less than 75 seconds) video clips to get your blood really boiling. I am featured in the third clip. Small Businesses Picking Up the Tab for Multinational Corporations? http://youtu.be/4AicxgXgmZc • Small businesses can’t escape the corporate…
New Poll of Small Business Owners
Reveals Strong Bipartisan Opposition to Corporate Tax Loopholes First Poll on Overseas Tax Haven Reforms Finds Rejection of “Territorial” Tax System April 9, 2013, Washington, D.C. – Small business owners oppose the current system for taxing U.S.-based multinational corporations, according to a new poll. The national scientific poll released today…
Bipartisanship breaks out in SC and US Senates
This week a handful of Republican and Democratic Senators in Columbia and Washington found common ground on two important issues. In Columbia 15 Senators of both parties have introduced legislation to allow a third party to finance and own solar panels on a home or commercial building and sell the…
New Study: Offshore Tax Dodging Blows $40 Billion Hole in State Budgets
Congress Poised to Debate Closing Corporate Tax Loopholes, Bring States Budget Relief Read the Report: www.uspirgedfund.org/reports/usf/hidden-cost-offshore-tax-havens Washington, February 5th – With states across the country facing dire fiscal crunches and lawmakers in Washington gearing up for more budget showdowns, U.S. PIRG Education Fund released a new study revealing that state…
Push multinational corporate tax dodgers over the fiscal cliff
The Wall Street JournalDecember 5, 2012 By Carl Levin America stands at the edge of a fiscal cliff with drastic budget cuts and painful tax increases on the middle class unless we can agree on a comprehensive, balanced deficit-reduction plan. This challenge lends new urgency to cutting loopholes and gimmicks…
Failed economic experiments
In the past 12 years we have witnessed two of the biggest failed experiments in how to improve the economy of countries. The first experiment was here in our country. In the 2000s we went on a tax-cutting spree for the wealthiest Americans, allowed multinational corporations to drastically cut their…
Poll: Small Business Owners Say Big Businesses, Millionaires Not Paying Fair Share of Taxes
90 percent of small business owners in nationwide poll say big corporations use loopholes to avoid taxes that small businesses have to pay; majority support increasing taxes on millionaires and letting high-end tax cuts expire Washington, DC – Small business owners see corporate tax loopholes and accounting gimmicks used to…
‘Shared sacrifice’ in debt reduction should include international tax loopholes
By Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) The Hill’s Congress BlogJuly 26, 2011 As Washington considers solutions to our debt crisis, I believe a fundamental principle — before we consider cutting vital programs or raising tax rates—is ensuring everyone pays their fair share. I always find it impossible to explain why a…