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Multinational Corporations

Upcoming Trans-Pacific Partnership Looks Like Corporate Takeover

Dave Johnson | Posted 05.15.2013 | Business
Dave Johnson

It will be sold as a trade agreement (because everyone knows that "trade" is good) but much of it appears to be (from what we know) a corporate end-run around things We the People want to do to reign in the giant corporations -- like Wall Street regulation, environmental regulation and corporate taxation.

G-20 Proposal to End Tax Evasion Won't Work

Martin Lobel | Posted 05.02.2013 | Business
Martin Lobel

The proposal, strongly supported by Treasury, will not work to prevent the biggest source of tax evasion -- multinational corporations use of transfer pricing to shift of profits to low or no tax countries -- and Treasury knows it and, indeed, has opposed OECD efforts to close that loophole.

Who Would Most Want the Price of Gold to Go Down? The Fed.

Terry Mollner | Posted 04.29.2013 | Business
Terry Mollner

When multinational corporations' leaders reach this higher level of personal maturity, they will end their rush to the bottom of low wages and poor community and environmental behavior and lead the planet in our rise from the bottom in these areas.

What Does It Mean To Be An "American" Corporation?

Dave Johnson | Posted 04.25.2013 | Business
Dave Johnson

Can we align the interests of giant corporations with our national, American interest? If we cannot, they should be stripped of their American corporate privileges and be required to do the same things as other entities that are not wedded to the national interest.

Why Is Treasury Protecting Tax Havens for Multinationals?

Martin Lobel | Posted 04.22.2013 | Politics
Martin Lobel

Everyone -- except Treasury, apparently -- agrees that our international tax system, which is based on transfer pricing, is broken.

REVEALED: Huge Drop In Amount Of Profits Corporations Pay In Taxes

www.washingtonpost.com | Posted 03.27.2013 | Business

Procter & Gamble, the Cincinnati-based company behind Pampers diapers and Tide detergent, reported a federal tax burden in 1969 that was 40 percent of...

A Rudderless One World Economy

Stephen Herrington | Posted 05.21.2013 | Business
Stephen Herrington

In our new borderless world economy, multinational corporations are overseeing the destruction of the global wage base. Multinationals think that's a good thing. It is a good thing for them individually in the short term. In the long term, collectively, it's a terminal illness.

Exempting Foreign Profits From Taxes Will Hurt US Economy

Martin Lobel | Posted 05.14.2013 | Business
Martin Lobel

Multinational corporations are aggressively pursuing a stealthy campaign to eliminate taxes on their "foreign" profits. Of course, such a policy is contrary to the Obama administration's objective to create jobs and will hurt domestic companies that have to pay taxes on their profits.

What Do American Manufacturers Owe Their Country?

Michele Nash-Hoff | Posted 04.14.2013 | Business
Michele Nash-Hoff

Moving a majority of manufacturing to other countries, especially China, is doing harm to our country.Therefore, American multinational corporations and other American manufacturers owe allegiance to the United States of America by maintaining a strong presence in our country.

Israeli Elections and Foreign Investors

Efraim Chalamish | Posted 04.10.2013 | World
Efraim Chalamish

As analysts and investors look carefully at the result of recent Israeli elections , they should not get distracted by endless discussions about Middle East politics and military draft. They may want to hone on the government's annual returns. The devil is in the details.

Ben Hallman

How Corporate Giants Are Sneaking Tax Breaks Into Fiscal Cliff Debate

HuffingtonPost.com | Ben Hallman | Posted 12.12.2012 | Business

As Washington tries to balance the federal books and avert the automatic spending cuts and tax increases known as the fiscal cliff, top executives of ...

Searching For A Happy Medium

Valerie Berset-Price | Posted 10.01.2012 | Business
Valerie Berset-Price

Social entrepreneurs tend to instinctively know and apply what is so difficult for corporate clients to assimilate. What is refreshing is that they're not afraid of their market; in fact, they're in love with it.

U.S. Multinationals Hiring At Much Faster Rate Overseas: Report

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.20.2012 | Business

U.S. multinationals are hiring. They're just doing a lot of it overseas these days. Multinational firms based in the United States expanded their w...

Corporations To Government: What Exactly Is Considered Bribing A Foreign Official?

Reuters | Posted 04.22.2012 | Business

* Government has stepped up its enforcement of FCPA * Corporations say fear over liability has impacted M&A * Seek g...

Obama's Proposed Minimum Tax on Foreign Earnings

Robert Pozen | Posted 04.21.2012 | Politics
Robert Pozen

If properly designed, the president's minimum tax could substantially improve the current system of taxing foreign profits of U.S. multinational corporations -- by both raising revenues and encouraging domestic investments.

Obama To Call For Lower Corporate Tax Rate

Reuters | Posted 04.11.2012 | Business

* Top U.S. corporate tax rate is 35 percent * Obama seen calling for lower rate, in line with peers * Opening salvo in c...

Occupy Corporations: How to Cut Corporate Power

Bill Quigley | Posted 04.07.2012 | Politics
Bill Quigley

The legal fiction of corporate personhood and the constitutional rights taken by corporations must cease.

2011: The Year Corporations Attacked Democracy

Bob Burnett | Posted 02.15.2012 | Politics
Bob Burnett

For 80 years, Americans have feared robots, worrying they might one day rule the world. In 2011 we realized our real enemies are not robots, but multinational corporations, who have declared war on democracy.

Multinationals Holding Nearly Half Of Untaxed Profits In The U.S.

Posted 12.15.2011 | Business

Multinational corporations likely have the means to invest the offshore profits in the U.S. without a tax holiday that they're billing as a job creato...

Loopholes, Corporate Tax Dodging Costing Developing Countries Billions: Report

The Huffington Post | Jillian Berman | Posted 12.05.2011 | Business

It's no secret that many multinationals have become particularly adept at exploiting tax loopholes. Nor is it a surprising that the U.S. federal defic...

Bonnie Kavoussi

While U.S.-Based Corporations Went On Hiring Spree Abroad, They Cut Jobs At Home

HuffingtonPost.com | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 11.22.2011 | Business

In the last decade, U.S.-based multinational companies have been on a hiring spree, adding over 2 million new jobs. They're just not adding them in th...

Huge Multinational Corporation To Expand To Iraq

Posted 11.21.2011 | Business

General Electric Co (GE.N) is opening its first offices in Iraq, in the cities of Baghdad, Basra and Arbil, part of the largest U.S. conglomerate'...

Corporate Tax Holiday For Overseas Profits May Hurt Exports

Posted 12.31.2011 | Business

Any economic benefit that might result from a U.S. tax holiday for overseas corporate profits could be muted, or even reversed, if it strengthened...

Mexico City's Markets Languish

AP | MANUEL VALDES | Posted 11.06.2011 | World

MEXICO CITY — For 30 years, Estela Moran has sold almost every edible part of a cow at her meat stand in a neighborhood market. The sale of trip...

Labor Day: Dreaming of Joe Hill

Bob Burnett | Posted 11.02.2011 | Politics
Bob Burnett

Joe Hill was a labor activist in the early 1900's -- the sort you used to hear more about in American popular culture. This Labor Day, I wonder what he would make of the demise of unions and the struggles of American workers.