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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWall Street Has Raked In Almost A Billion Dollars Helping Companies Move Overseas To Dodge Taxes
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/07/29/3465206/wall-street-inversions-overseas/As more and more American companies have used international mergers to move their profits out of U.S. tax jurisdiction, the Wall Street firms that encourage and facilitate the deals have raked in close to a billion dollars in fees. The top 10 firms to work on the so-called inversion deals have brought in $819.8 million from the deals in just the past three years, according to a New York Times analysis.
The top of the list of corporate offshoring advisers is full of familiar names. Goldman Sachs leads the way with an estimated $203 million in fees, followed by JP Morgan ($185 million), Morgan Stanley ($98 million), and Citigroup ($72 milion). Those figures represent just the past three years of deals and are based on both public disclosures and analyst estimates of the fees paid in various corporate deals.
The deals in question called inversions because they involve an American company buying a foreign-held firm based in a low-tax country and then flipping the merged companys address to the tax haven nation without necessarily relocating in any practical sense have boomed in the years since the recession. But the Times figures only date to 2011, so fees paid to the banks on dozens of inversions in prior years arent counted.
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Inversions are just one facet of the many-splendored jewel that is international corporate tax evasion. The eccentricities of the tax code and the international race to the bottom among tax haven countries like Ireland, Luxembourg, Switzerland, and various islands in the Caribbean mean that companies have a variety of options for legally reducing their U.S. tax bill while maintaining their day-to-day operations in America. Apple, Google, Microsoft, Caterpillar, and many other business giants use elaborate licensing deals and shell company subsidiaries to shift profits off their American books.
Despite costing taxpayers tens of billions of dollars per year, companies that move profits overseas to duck taxes still receive over $1 billion per year in government contracts.
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Wall Street Has Raked In Almost A Billion Dollars Helping Companies Move Overseas To Dodge Taxes (Original Post)
deminks
Jul 2014
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randys1
(16,286 posts)1. And what is hysterically funny, but not really, is the TEAPARTY of all people supporting this.
do they NOT know what the Boston Tea Party was about?
sheesh
deminks
(11,014 posts)2. You know it! All that trickle down money went to Wall Street. Who could have imagined that?.......