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A Senate report estimated in 2008 that the United States loses up to $100 billion a year in tax revenue to offshore tax havens ( PDF ). In a report released Wednesday, the U.S. Public Interest Research Group offers a state-by-state breakdown of the cost to taxpayers of tax revenue lost to ...
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Offshore Tax Havens: A State-By-State Breakdown Of The Cost To Taxpayers
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... with protests at post offices across the country coordinated by the Campaign to Rebuild and Renew America Now, a coalition of groups supporting the president's budget priorities. Obama's budget calls for reigning in offshore tax havens.John Krieger says similar efforts by U.S. PIRG last year brought attention to tax evasion by major defense contractors like Kellogg, Brown & Root , ultimately leading to legislation to make sure contractors pay their share. Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/15/offshore-tax-h... $100 billion. Every. Year. Here's my ...
Shame on Unions for Protecting Their Health Care Plans?
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... I understand the economic arguments against the current structure, but if folks can achieve some economic and health security -- which are presumably government's goals in any reform -- through this means, it's not clear why government should be looking here for substantial revenues, no matter how well the tax tracks rising health costs, as opposed to a zillion other tax shelters that are far ...
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