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Gulf Spill Yields Tax Talk About Multinationals

5 July 2010

Tweet In the middle of all the “tax loopholes closing” that’s been going on in Congress, a big, fat one may have remained open. Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT), who chairs the powerful Senate Finance Committee, has opened an investigation into whether Transocean, Ltd., has been exploiting tax law loopholes by moving their headquarters overseas (spoiler [...]

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Obama’s Treasury Pick Under Fire for Tax Liability

14 January 2009

Tweet In the midst of the current economic crisis, I know that many in Congress were hoping for a smooth transition to a new administration. That may not happen. President Elect Barack Obama’s nomination to head the Treasury Department has hit a road block: revelations that Timothy Geithner had failed to timely pay $34,000 in [...]

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The Shill of the Game

14 October 2007

Tweet No, that’s not a typo. These days, it seems, it is all about the dollars. Even in college sports – or maybe especially in college sports. The headline on this week’s Philadelphia Inquirer, Sunday Edition, blared “Raising Funds – and eyebrows” – the story about the push to raise money for colleges through athletics [...]

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But I’m Not Rich!

28 June 2007

Tweet That’s what many folks think when asked to consider whether they will be affected by the AMT (Alternative Minimum Tax). But here’s where they’re wrong: the AMT is hitting middle class America more often. We’ve even argued about it a little bit on the blog (be sure and read the comments). And the consensus [...]

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