Tax Loophole

Tobacco Companies Using Loophole To Avoid Hundreds Of Millions In Taxes

AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Obama Child Health Law, Taxes, Big Tobacco, Tax Loophole, Farmers Gold, Irs, Tobacco Companies, Roll Your Own Tobacco, Tobacco, Criss Cross, Pipes, Business News

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 10.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Tax Loophole, US Pirg, Lobbyblog, Tax Havens, Business News

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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Thomas B. Edsall

Obama Seeks To Kill Hedge Fund Tax Break

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 03.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Capital Gains Rate, Senate Capital Gains Tax Rate, Tax Loophole, Capital Gains Tax Break, Politics News

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 02.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Bank of America, Taxes, Tax Loophole, Morgan Stanley, Corporate Taxes, Tax Havens, Citigroup, Business News

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 10.12.2008 | Business

Read More: Tax Loophole, CEO Pay, Tax Subsidy, Income Inequality, Executive Compensation, Economy, Business News
Robert Weissman

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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