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Romney's new tax incentive for outsourcing US jobs
How Romney's Plan Would Reward Foreign Outsourcing
http://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/economy/report/2012/07/16/11935/romneys-new-tax-incentive-for-outsourcing-u-s-jobs/
Even more troubling than his business record is his platform as Republican presidential candidate, which includes a policy that would encourage and further accelerate the outsourcing of American jobs to foreign countries.
The former Massachusetts governor would make U.S. corporations overseas profits exempt from U.S. taxes. These profits are already treated favorably under the tax code compared to corporate profits that are earned and reported domestically, creating an inefficient bias toward investment offshore. The favorable treatment of profits that are reported offshore also creates rewards for corporations that shift profits (on paper) out of the United States to foreign countries, including tax havens such as Bermuda and the Cayman Islands.
Romneys proposed exemption for foreign profits would exacerbate the worst features of our current tax system. It would:
Enhance the tax codes rewards for moving jobs and investments overseas
Provide a gratuitous windfall to some of the very companies that have already shifted jobs and profits overseas
Further invite the offshore tax haven abuse that deprives the U.S. Treasury of tens of billions of dollars in revenue every year
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Romney's new tax incentive for outsourcing US jobs (Original Post)
antigop
Sep 2012
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MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)1. K&R
OhioChick
(23,218 posts)2. Which would lead to more joblessness and a wealtheir 1%
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antigop
(12,778 posts)3. kick n/t