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Showing posts with label U.S. corporations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label U.S. corporations. Show all posts

May 23, 2011

GE Joins Intel to Advise Obama as Overseas Holdings Expand

Seven publicly traded U.S. corporations represented on President Barack Obama’s advisory council for jobs and competitiveness -- including General Electric Co. (GE) and Intel Corp. (INTC) -- have devoted a growing pool of their non-U.S. earnings to investments in other countries.

As a group, multinational companies with current or former chief executive officers on Obama’s jobs council have, over the past four years, almost doubled the cumulative amounts they’ve reinvested overseas, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

April 17, 2011

Corporate Tax Hurdles: A World of Difference

Back in September 2008, during a presidential debate, Republican candidate John McCain declared: "American business pays the second-highest business taxes in the world, [at] 35%." Democrat Barack Obama, countered that, while on paper corporate taxes look high, "there are so many loopholes that have been written into the tax code that…we actually see our businesses pay effectively one of the lowest rates in the world."