I would have to read the plan, however their are a lot of
things that can be done to increase us corporate expansion while ensuring that
they are taxed appropriately. I am not one for taxation, however, if you benefit
from government intervention, such as the US legal system, the transportation
understructure, etc., you should pay back into the system. Rite now (or at least
the last time I had to deal with international taxation) if I take a job in
Japan I can file for a tax exemption from Japan because I do not live or
work in Japan, even though I earned income from a Japanese business. I
would then be required to pay taxes in the US since I do live and work here.
Currently this gets a bit squirrely as no one in Japan will notify the US that I
earned this money and I can just sweep it under the rug by leaving it with the
Japanese post office and spending it while overseas. Now, if I pick up a job in
Bangladesh and spend time their to complete the work and pay say, 8% of the
money earned in taxes, then when I come to the US I can deduct those taxes from
my US taxes thus paying less. The only people who have real issues are
consolidated multinational companies who are traded on us exchanges as a
consolidated company. If Cisco US was separated from Cisco UK their should be
almost no issue. Heck, the home builder I worked for was around 50 separate and
legal companies, but we were not publicly traded and did not use oversees growth
to bolster the US numbers.
I would be interested in seeing the actual
proposal.
I wonder what this will mean for multi-national
companies? I'm guessing companies like Cisco will move off shore
completely.
--- "Cisco would be adversely affected if tax
deferral was implemented by the U.S.," said Cisco spokesman John
Earnhardt. "If rules are changed on tax deferral and we are taxed in the
U.S. on non-U.S. profit, this significant additional U.S. tax would
adversely impact our ability to invest and grow our business in the U.S.
and to compete against our foreign competitors who are not subject to this
U.S.
tax." ---
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Economy/story?id=7499323&page=1
------------------------ Keith
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