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Multinational Corporate Tax Holiday Gets New Interest

14 May 2011

Imagine for a minute how you’d feel if you found out that Congress passed a law that would allow your neighbor to pay less tax than you – a lot less tax than you – simply because they waited so long to do it. That’s exactly what a measure introduced this week by Rep. Kevin [...]

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Terrorist Informers, Rewards and Taxes

3 May 2011

So here’s a sight that I didn’t expect to see any time soon: But yet, there it is on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list today: Bin Laden’s picture with the word “Deceased” underneath. No, wait, I’m not going to get all political on you. I don’t think I need to. You’re a grown up [...]

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Japan Grapples With Tax Hike Plans

29 March 2011

Paying for reconstruction in the aftermath of the tsunami has been a major point of discussion in Japan. Next up for consideration? Taxes. Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has been dancing around the question of whether Japan would go ahead with a planned tax cut for businesses. The country had been in talks to reduce [...]

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Ron Cohen Presents on Google and the “Dutch Sandwich”

20 March 2011

Ron Cohen of Greenstein, Rogoff, Olsen & Co., sent me this video of their weekly tax update focusing on “Dutch Sandwich” or “Double Irish” offshore planning. Offshore planning is something I’m familiar with – and I’ve been blogging about quite a bit – so I thought it made sense to share it on taxgirl.com. Enjoy.

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Charitable Giving for Japanese Disaster Relief

13 March 2011

First, my thoughts and prayers go out to those affected by the events in Japan. The stories and photos coming out of Japan are just heartbreaking. I know that many of you, like me, want to know what you can do to help out in what is being referred to as Japan’s ‘most difficult crisis’ [...]

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Taxes from A to Z: F is for FBAR

8 March 2011

In 1970, Congress passed the Bank Secrecy Act which was pretty much the first law on the books in the US to require banks and other financial institutions to reveal personal financial information to the government. Yep, this was long before the Patriot Act, and was originally meant to assist law enforcement agencies in the [...]

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What’s Next? The KLM Liberty Bell?

22 February 2011

We live in an increasingly branded world. Even the last vestige of truly American sports, football, is now a string of brands thrown together. I don’t know about you but I could barely distinguish between the Tostitos/Starbucks/Pepsi Bowl and the Facebook/Hershey’s/Microsoft Bowl… There has to be a breaking point if, for no other reason, that [...]

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Apple Likely Waiting on Tax Holiday

17 February 2011

Earlier this week, I posted about a potential tax holiday for multinational companies; the holiday would allow them to repatriate funds currently being held offshore at a lower tax rate. The idea, which has been bandied about by Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) and Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) – but not endorsed by Treasury Secretary Geithner [...]

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Congress Considers “Tax Holiday” for Corporations

13 February 2011

I think we all saw this coming. We’re easing out of a recession. The deficit is climbing. Companies *might* be hiring again, depending on the sector. Wall Street is inching back up, salaries and bonuses included. Retail sales are rebounding. It’s all good, right? We’re getting there, the President keeps reminding us, as he reiterates [...]

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IRS Tax Amnesty: Once More With Feeling

9 February 2011

As expected, the IRS has announced a new amnesty program for taxpayers with previously undisclosed offshore accounts. But since amnesty is such an ugly word, the IRS is calling it “a special voluntary disclosure initiative” (it has the feel of an after school special, huh?). The official title, for what it’s worth, is the 2011 [...]

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