Burma awaits an updated foreign investment code with stronger rights, protections and tax incentives.
Which "foreign law, legal code, or system" does CAIR wish to see incorporated into American constitutional law?
And last week the government moved to overrule the Supreme Court and change the tax code to tax foreign takeovers retroactively, not least Vodafone's purchase of its Indian arm.
There was a secret deciphering office in London, a successor to the Post Office's foreign letter office, and another code-breaking unit in the Admiralty, both of which cracked Napoleon's codes, as did the bureau noir attached to every European government (though the Austrians reckoned their best intelligence came from the emperor's pillow talk).
There may be no more vexing challenge in the Revenue Code than the taxation of foreign transactions of multinational companies.
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At the present time, the IRS interprets the tax code in a way that pushes foreign investors towards financing big business at the expense of small business owners.
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We'll pay down our deficits, reform our tax code and keep reducing our dependence on foreign oil.
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Introspection and imagination might have been foreign to him, but he had his own moral code and a strong sense of purpose.
The problem is that the IRS interprets the tax code so that it is very bad for passive foreign investors to make small and mid-sized business loans.
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In October 2004, Congress changed the tax code to bar partnerships from being used to transfer foreign losses to U.S. taxpayers, thus clearly outlawing DAD after that point.
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Every dollar a company pays to a foreign government will ultimately cost the U.S. treasury a dollar because the U.S. must provide a dollar-for-dollar credit for foreign taxes paid on foreign income, under both the U.S. tax code and bilateral U.S. treaties with most of our major trade and investment partners.
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The Bank Secrecy Act and the Internal Revenue Code both require reporting by United States persons concerning their foreign financial accounts.
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Over the years, the local media have developed a code for reporting on Arabs - whether Palestinian or Israeli or foreign.
To attract investment of foreign dollars into the U.S. economy, the Internal Revenue Code generally exempts these deposits from taxation and reporting requirements.
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The Foreign Secretary gave the impression that the deal was OK, despite the EU Code of Conduct, because the UN had said so.
The enemies of action include lobbyists who want to keep special treatment for their respective industries embedded in the current tax code, or unions that oppose immigration reform for high-skilled foreign workers.
But both the Bush Administration and Rep. Thomas have concluded that the problem is a bigger one, namely that the U.S. tax code places U.S. companies at a disadvantage versus their foreign-based competitors.
The foreign-components provision in 9-9-9 would thereby harness the tax code for the dubious purpose of promoting inefficiency.
Cheap and skilled labor, low taxes, a 19% flat tax for corporations and individuals, no dividend taxes, a relatively liberal labor code and a favorable geographical location are Slovakia's main advantages for foreign investors.
Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook is preparing to testify at the hearing, and is expected to propose changes to a tax code that provides American companies strong incentives to keep overseas earnings bottled up at foreign subsidiaries.
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With all the hysterical talk about slowing takeovers with legislation, about curbing the spread of junk bond acquisitions and foreign buying of U.S. assets, few people seem aware that our current tax code--passed by Congress and approved in general by the business community--provides a huge bounty to people whether Americans or foreigners, who want to take over companies.
In the long run, reform would also encourage foreign investment in Japan, steer firms towards the most profitable investments and lessen the influence of the tax code on companies.
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