Many underreport income, acquired illicitly or otherwise, to avoid taxes and qualify for greater handouts.
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The super rich are buying real estate outside of China in an effort to avoid taxes.
The president wanted to imply that Romney simply wants big business to avoid taxes.
They defer income to avoid taxes and drive cars that belie their actual wealth.
Governments across Europe have cracked down on the practice of using secret accounts to avoid taxes.
It is true that Delaware makes it easy to avoid taxes on certain kinds of revenue streams.
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It's possible the Caymans was chosen to help Citi's foreign executives avoid taxes in their home countries.
Some are simply mechanisms to avoid taxes, while others legitimately protect assets, promote charitable causes or defer income.
In 2003, the IRS issued guidance on how these transactions could avoid taxes.
Apple didn't dispute that entities it set up didn't pay corporate taxes but denied they were designed to avoid taxes.
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But considering the island is mostly used as a means to avoid taxes, it is unlikely the number is realistic.
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Large companies pay lower effective rates because they shelter profits overseas and hire armies of tax experts to avoid taxes.
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Second, the rich can exploit current complexities to avoid taxes in ways that could be curtailed in a flat-tax system.
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Microsoft has used "aggressive" transactions to shift assets to subsidiaries in Puerto Rico, Ireland and Singapore, in part to avoid taxes.
The process of people coming up with clever ideas to avoid taxes and legislation to prevent that is something of an arms race.
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The latest is Han Man-soo, who withdrew his nomination for antitrust chief Monday amid allegations he stashed millions of dollars overseas to avoid taxes.
Firms may also avoid taxes by allocating a share of their income to foreign sources which, under American rules, generate credits against domestic tax obligations.
French actor Gerard Depardieu says he is handing back his French passport after the prime minister criticised him for moving to Belgium to avoid taxes.
It helps your case if the trust document gives the trustee broad discretion to make payouts or has specific language addressing distributions to reduce or avoid taxes.
But NGA believes that companies have found a loophole in the law by bundling together their services and then offering them over the Net in order to avoid taxes.
We will eliminate the tax on qualified dividends and long-term capital gains to free up the billions of dollars Americans are sitting on to avoid taxes on the gain.
Historically, people have done many things to avoid taxes including move, barter, hide income, defer investment and take less risk, i.e. they decide not to try to make money.
And then if you're spending it early, before retirement, then you can imagine that a lot of people could potentially game the system by using these accounts to avoid taxes.
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Budget Minister Jerome Cahuzac has spent months singling out corporate multinational tax dodgers, citizens who live abroad to avoid taxes and those within France who stash money in overseas accounts.
To me, this is the crux of the problem with our current tax code: the level of taxation is high enough to encourage those with means to aggressively avoid taxes.
DuVally, the Goldman spokesman, declined to comment when I asked whether it was inconsistent for Goldman to make a move for its executives to avoid taxes after Blankfein endorsed increases for the wealthy.
This report provides new analysis on the impact to retailers and consumer spending if Congress fails to act to avoid taxes going up on 98 percent of Americans at the end of the year.
While operating in the informal economy helps entrepreneurs avoid taxes and labor laws, it also limits the size that the business can grow and therefore the return that the entrepreneur and society can generate from the business.
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