Wrong. Accenture is an American corporation.
Posted on 06/02/2004 5:19:18 PM PDT by ETERNAL WARMING
It is not an American corporation. Also, they are a major exporter of American jobs on US soil.
Wrong. Accenture is an American corporation.
Anderson Associates--the auditing firm--handled Enron's books. Anderson Consulting was a different branch.
It's Andersen.
Ya, ya, you betcha, shoulda caught the Scandinavian spelling of the name...
Yup. Facts require thought. Being outraged merely requires one to jerk the knee...
Different branch huh?
Ok,
Believe whatever you wish.
Accenture was already a separate entity from AA.
"Quit punishing businesses for hiring Americans and being based in America, and they won't put their headquarters in Bermuda."
Let them move off shore for tax reasons if they want. They shouldn't get gov't contracts if the do though.
Can you say CAFTA?
It was conveniently signed this week.
Watch. They swarm to this like flies to doggie-doo. It's typical.
The only thing that they have in Bermuda is a mail drop.
The company is otherwise in America.
But if I'm reading you correctly, they should be required, as a precondition of bidding on government contracts with their attendant paperwork, is to pay enough in taxes that they could very well lose money on the privilege.
As it is, most consulting firms call working for the government "pro bono work."
I guess being outraged is more important than the facts, right?
Hey that's politics don'cha know? Load an American company down with tax regulations and beat them to death over their foreign profits, then complain when they move they head quarters to where those profits are treated more equitably.
There is a fix for that however, wonder if the complainers will ever catch on?
Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee,
Rep. Bill Archer (R-TX) - August 12, 1996
- "A recent survey was done, in Europe and Japan, of the major corporations and I was astounded at the results. They were asked, 'If the US abolished its income tax and went to a sales tax, would that have any impact on your decisions?' Eighty percent of the corporations said they would build their factories in the United States of America. Twenty percent said they would move their international headquarters to the United States of America."
Repeal all income & payroll taxes on American businesses, then charge imports the same retail sales tax as you do domestic products for the first time in nearly one hundred years. Exports go out tax free, imports get hit with the full freight they escape from under the current income/payroll tax system.
What attracted you?
No, we can't have that. You see, if foreign companies relocated their headquarters here, then workers like me who are employed by these foreign companies will be lambasted on this site just for working for the foreign company. Nevermind the facts that this foreign company that I work for has both its R&D and manufacturing base right here in DFW, TX.
They're foreign, you see.
Your mama, that's who.
We will all be speaking Bermudan and wearing ugly colorful shirts within a generation.
Why don't people get it? First, Clinton sells us out to the Communist Chinese, now Bush is exposing us to the Bermudan Menace.
Such class.
Sounds like a run around govt. red tape and democrats 'over sight'. Maybe even union thugs. It sounds like their safe from leftist 'help', which is okay by me. I notice in the article dems are the only ones screaming about it.
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