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To: ConservingFreedom

No American corporation should be allowed to incorporate somewhere else in order to avoid taxes. Let them sell their goods and services where they are incorporated.


3 posted on 07/16/2014 10:21:53 AM PDT by sakic
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To: sakic
No American corporation should be allowed to incorporate somewhere else in order to avoid taxes. Let them sell their goods and services where they are incorporated.

That may work if money-hungry governments didn't keep jacking up taxes and simply assuming the corporations will pay them. The choice isn't operate in a high-tax jurisdiction vs. a low-tax non-US jurisdiction. The choice typically is operate in a jurisdiction with reasonable taxes or go out of business.

6 posted on 07/16/2014 10:28:48 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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By the same token, the U.S. should not tax a U.S. company located in Germany for making a product in Germany, and selling it there.


7 posted on 07/16/2014 10:35:58 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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This is really a tax loophole problem.

Congress doesn't give tax loopholes to generic drug manufacturers because generic drug manufacturing is cutthroat competitive and they don't do a lot of campaign contributing.

OTOH drug manufacturers with very profitable patented drugs(like Merck and Pfizer) do get loopholes plus extended patents so they do make campaign contributions.

Meanwhile, in Europe, the tax code is more uniform(fewer loopholes) so a generic drug manufacturer has relatively lower taxes there.

So, we are talking about institutional corruption or systemic corruption or legal corruption and no one is better at it than the US Congress.

10 posted on 07/16/2014 11:35:02 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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