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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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Fix the Tax Code Friday: Corporate Tax Breaks and Reputations

18 February 2011

This week’s Fix the Tax Code Friday is related to last week’s question – but with a twist. Earlier in the week, I posted about the potential for corporate tax breaks for companies who are repatriating funds to the U.S. Among the companies which appear to have interest in such a move is Apple, which [...]

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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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Steve Jobs Is NOT Giving You Tax Advice (But If He Did…)

12 November 2010

We are a Mac household. And a Mac family. Before you judge, rest assured that it wasn’t that cute Justin Long that influenced our decision. We were all-Mac before it was cool. My husband was a Drexel grad back in the 1980s when Drexel standardized on the Apple and has been addicted obsessed hooked a [...]

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Microsoft Exec: Consumers Need to Pay More Taxes

7 March 2010

What if the head of Coca-Cola suggested a tax on sugary sodas to combat increasing instances of obesity? Or if the big three automakers heralded an increase in the gas tax as a way of repairing our highways? It would leave a lot of us scratching our heads. That’s why many IT folks were left [...]

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Fix the Tax Code Friday: Tax Breaks for Investments

5 June 2009

It’s Fix the Tax Code Friday! Yesterday, I blogged about NC’s efforts to woo Apple and Google to the Tarheel state by passing corporate tax breaks directed at each of them. This is nothing new. In my own state of Pennsylvania, a new film tax credit is being touted in an effort to bring more [...]

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NC Woos Apple With Promises of Tax Breaks

4 June 2009

In a tough economy – when a state can’t yet pay its bills – you’d think the fiscal plan for the future would be conservative. Not so, North Carolina. Despite massive budget woes, the state legislature has agreed to special tax breaks designed to bring Apple to the Tarheel State. Apple, the company that makes [...]

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Congress Proposes Federal Tax on Downloaded Music

1 April 2009

Despite the Obama administration’s efforts to close the gap between decreasing revenues and increasing expenditures, the federal deficit is expected to soar this year. Congress has been scrambling for ways to find extra dollars and one Congressman believes he’s found a way: tax online music. It’s no wonder. The number of songs sold online is [...]

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My New MacBook – and Its Tax Connection

1 August 2008

Just before BlogHer, Chris went out and bought me a new laptop. This was a fairly important purchase since my last laptop had more or less lost its portability – kind of an important part of a laptop. My new laptop is a MacBook, just a more modern version of my prior laptop (only this [...]

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Use Tax on iTunes? It Doesn’t Make Sense.

14 July 2008

Another Tax Geek asked me whether I pay Use Tax on my iTunes purchases (you can answer him, too, by voting in our poll in the sidebar). I do not. I started to reply in the comments and felt that my comment was a bit wordy (as I tend to be) and I felt that [...]

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