Tax Loophole

Facebook To Save $16 Billion In Taxes On IPO

Bloomberg View | Paula Dwyer | Posted 05.21.2012

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Bloomberg View: Facebook Inc.'s IPO will create billions in new wealth for its founders, employees and investors. It will also save the company bil...

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Dems Target Romney's Tax Loophole

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 04.09.2012

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WASHINGTON -- A tax dodge that millionaire hedge fund managers use to slash their income taxes could soon become a major election issue, as congressio...

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Big Donors To Mitt Romney's Super PAC Could Reap Many Dividends

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 03.01.2012

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WASHINGTON -- One thing's for certain about most of the biggest donors bankrolling the main pro-Mitt Romney super PAC: They are canny investors. Pr...

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Obama Tax Plan Would Raise Taxes On Investment Managers

The Huffington Post | D.M. Levine | Posted 02.22.2012

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Part of the tax proposal announced by the Obama administration on Wednesday would shut down a controversial loophole that allows hedge fund managers a...

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How Income Inequality Undermines Social Security's Finances

Daniel Marans | Posted 01.16.2012

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If politicians want to completely restore Social Security to long-range balance, they should consider scrapping the cap entirely. That is what, poll after poll reports, the American people overwhelmingly favor.

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Labor Battles Hit Washington State

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 06.08.2011

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This story has been updated. WASHINGTON -- Inspired by the uprising in Wisconsin over workers' rights, Washington state residents have turned out a...

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Liberal Tea Party? U.S. Uncut Disrupts Service At Bank Of America

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.25.2011

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Demonstrators posing as a liberal Tea Party disrupted service at banks across the country on Saturday, in an effort to spotlight the gimmicks multi-bi...

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Class Warfare: John Kerry & Other Senators Hold Unemployed Hostage to a Tax Break for the Rich!

Iris Mack | Posted 05.25.2011

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The first news I read this morning was a very depressing New York Times editorial. Here's what I learned from the sobering statistics in this ...

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Tobacco Companies Using Loophole To Avoid Hundreds Of Millions In Taxes

AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — When President Barack Obama signed a law expanding children's health insurance this spring, he slapped tobacco companies with huge ...

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U.S. PIRG Catches Tax Haven Loophole In Appropriations Bill

The Huffington Post | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

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The U.S. Public Interest Research Group sent a letter Tuesday to members of a Senate appropriations subcommittee calling out a corporate tax haven loo...

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Obama Seeks To Kill Hedge Fund Tax Break

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 05.25.2011

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If there is one tax loophole that looks dead in the water, it's the law that lets hedge fund and private equity managers pay a 15-percent capital-gain...

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Bailed-Out Firms Use Offshore Tax Havens

AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Eighty-three of the nation's 100 largest corporations, including Citigroup, Bank of America and News Corp., had subsidiaries in offshor...

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Executive Pay and "The Market Economy"

Robert Weissman | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's pretty hard these days to justify astronomical executive pay. In 2007, the average CEO's pay of $10.5 million was 344 times higher on average than the average worker's wage.

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