{"id":3521,"date":"2015-04-24T16:36:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T16:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=3521"},"modified":"2015-04-24T16:36:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T16:36:00","slug":"corporations-admit-to-tax-havens-avoiding-600-billion-in-u-s-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=3521","title":{"rendered":"Corporations Admit to Tax Havens, Avoiding $600 Billion in U.S. Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3522\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3522\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3522\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/gr-45648-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Internal Revenue Service (pictured) will not collect up to $600 billion from dozens of U.S. multinationals using tax havens, according to a new report. At the end of 2014, 304 Fortune 500 companies collectively held $2.15 trillion in countries like Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, and the Bahamas. Photo: Joshua Doubek\/Wikimedia Commons.\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/gr-45648-1-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/gr-45648-1-1-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/gr-45648-1-1-405x271.jpg 405w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/gr-45648-1-1-60x40.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3522\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Internal Revenue Service (pictured) will not collect up to $600 billion from dozens of U.S. multinationals using tax havens, according to a new report. At the end of 2014, 304 Fortune 500 companies collectively held $2.15 trillion in countries like Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, and the Bahamas. Photo: Joshua Doubek\/Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em><strong>by Eric Galatas\/TNS<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; Congressional hearings in the past few years made headlines exposing how Apple and Microsoft moved money overseas to avoid paying U.S. taxes. But as a new report shows, these name-brand companies aren\u2019t alone.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Gardner, executive director with the Institute on Taxation and Public Policy, says companies that we know use offshore tax havens include Nike, Safeway, American Express, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, the pharmaceutical giant Amgen, and the list goes on. He says the impact on the U.S. Treasury is significant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf these companies paid the U.S. taxes that they ought to be paying on this income, we\u2019d be talking about $600 billion,\u201d says Gardner.<br \/>\nAt the end of 2014, 304 Fortune 500 companies collectively held over $2 trillion in countries like Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, and the Bahamas, places which Gardner points out provide very little in the way of real business opportunities for American corporations like Qualcomm, Safeway, and Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>Gardner adds, many corporations that fail to disclose whether their offshore holdings are tax havens are the same ones lobbying congress to enact a temporary \u201ctax holiday\u201d or a permanent exemption for offshore income. He says both proposals would only reward companies for shifting profits overseas, and that average Americans would end up footing the bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen corporations don\u2019t pay their fare share, really the impact is that the rest of us, middle income families and small businesses, pay more to make up the difference,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>The report recommends Congress act sooner than later to put a stop to tax havens. Gardner says 77 of the companies surveyed increased their declared offshore cash by at least $500 million each in the last year alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Eric Galatas\/TNS AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; Congressional hearings in the past few years made headlines exposing how Apple and Microsoft moved money overseas to avoid paying U.S. taxes. But as a new report shows, these name-brand companies aren\u2019t alone. Matt Gardner, executive director with the Institute on Taxation and Public Policy, says companies that we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3523,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521\/revisions\/3523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}