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U.S. senators urge Burger King to ditch move to Canada
Reuters ^ | 9/11/14 | Emily Stephenson

Posted on 09/11/2014 8:45:13 AM PDT by Enlightened1

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To: Enlightened1
hellooooo Canada!
21 posted on 09/11/2014 9:11:20 AM PDT by JPG ("So sue me". OK, we will.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

If they are incorporated in the US, they pay the same on US business as they would in Canada. However, they would be taxed in Canada for business in Canada, and still owe the difference between the higher US rate and the Canadian rate to the IRS.


22 posted on 09/11/2014 9:20:35 AM PDT by Ingtar (The NSA - "We're the only part of government who actually listens to the people.")
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To: Spirochete

What really looks like satire, (but isn’t) is the fact that BK is moving to Canada to escape taxes. CANADA!


23 posted on 09/11/2014 9:22:57 AM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: Enlightened1
"Now, after profiting from these taxpayer-funded benefits, Burger King intends to move its tax address overseas to avoid paying its fair share for these benefits,"

Must be democrat Senators. They are the only ones that would think Canada is overseas from the USA. Nimrods.

24 posted on 09/11/2014 9:28:22 AM PDT by Go Gordon (Barack McGreevey Obama)
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To: Enlightened1
"Now, after profiting from these taxpayer-funded benefits, Burger King intends to move its tax address overseas to avoid paying its fair share for these benefits," the group said in the letter, which was viewed by Reuters.

I am sorely tempted to write a parody letter based on this one, titled, "From a Rapist to his Victim", urging the victim not to resist...

25 posted on 09/11/2014 9:31:37 AM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: Enlightened1

Maybe these good senators should lower the corporate tax to a level that will allow BK to stay in business here.


26 posted on 09/11/2014 9:35:00 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: TMA62

Exactly,the new Obama fast food workers union is at least partly to blame .


27 posted on 09/11/2014 9:37:27 AM PDT by Lumper20 ( clown in Chief has own Gov employees Gestapo)
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To: Enlightened1

We blew an excellent teaching moment by incorrectly reacting to “You didn’t build that.”

Who built it, Obama?
Tax funded government entities.
Where’d that tax income come from, Obama?
Taxpayers, both corporations and individuals.
What allowed them to pay taxes, Obama?
Income.
What allowed them that income, Obama?
Being a business and being employed by a business.
So, again, who built it, Obama?
(Businesses.)


28 posted on 09/11/2014 9:37:51 AM PDT by polymuser ( Enough is enough.)
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"Now, after profiting from these taxpayer-funded benefits, Burger King intends to move its tax address overseas to avoid paying its fair share for these benefits," the group said in the letter, which was viewed by Reuters.

This is the same bizarre argument Elizabeth Warren and Obama tried in their "you didn't build that" campaign. According to this unique point of view, anyone who ever who uses a public road or school in the US cannot claim that what they earn is really theirs - the fact that they used public facilities means the government is entitled to some arbitrary share of their wealth forever.

This group seems to be extending the concept to also say that anyone who uses any public facilities in the US gives up the right to ever leave the US. In other words, if you use any public facility in the US, you are indebted to the government forever and become a slave, with no right to keep your own money or to ever leave.
29 posted on 09/11/2014 9:39:22 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Enlightened1

They are still paying their fair share for the roads, etc. It’s called property taxes.


30 posted on 09/11/2014 10:02:45 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Jonty30

No, it’s called fuel taxes.


31 posted on 09/11/2014 10:03:47 AM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: Enlightened1

I heard GE is going to do the same thing. My bad, GE doesn’t pay taxes.


32 posted on 09/11/2014 10:05:23 AM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: Enlightened1

Why don’t the Senators pass a law making it illegal for Burger King to move to Canada. They could call it something catchy, like ‘Directive 10-289’ for example.


33 posted on 09/11/2014 10:08:17 AM PDT by Hoodat (Article 4, Section 4)
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To: Enlightened1

...or we’ll get you and your little dog too!


34 posted on 09/11/2014 10:36:32 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: TMA62

Right you are! And Burger King won’t be the last company that leaves to escape high corporate taxes.


35 posted on 09/11/2014 10:39:05 AM PDT by 2001convSVT (Going Galt as fast as I can.)
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