Current rules require companies that generate cash in low tax jurisdictions to pay the standard U.S. corporate rate on repatriated cash, less whatever tax they paid in in a foreign country.
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In the event, they have settled for banning sales of drink for less than the tax paid on it (alcohol duty, plus VAT, a consumption tax).
They say banning shops and bars from selling drinks for less than the tax paid on them will cut crime and set a "base price" for the first time.
So the plaintiff had actually paid less sales tax on the overall purchase than they should have and was still suing Dell.
Compare this to the total share of Federal income taxes paid by the 80% of tax payers who are in the 2nd through 5th quintile of earners who paid less than 6% of the total Federal income tax burden in 2009 (data from the Congressional Budget Office).
Apple paid less than 2% corporation tax on its profits outside the US, its filing with US regulators has shown.
However British National Party MEP Andrew Brons called for VAT to be scrapped and replaced with a local sales tax, claiming that VAT was a "regressive" tax, paid disproportionately by the less well-off.
More or less, anyone who is paid to prepare a tax return must be registered with the IRS and meet certain minimum requirements.
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Now that all three of them are so huge in the UK, is it remotely plausible that they would suddenly emigrate and stop trying to sell as much as possible to British consumers if they suddenly faced tax bills comparable to those paid by less internationally mobile UK companies?
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Among the top 400, 7.5 percent had an average tax rate of less than 10 percent, 25 percent paid between 10 and 15 percent, and 28 percent paid between 15 and 20 percent.
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Why would we do the equivalent in medicine unless we like paying a 40% insurance bureaucracy tax for what can easily be paid directly for less than the cost of a daily latte?
The amount you paid in each year was equal or less than your tax benefit.
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Many Medicare Advantage plans will ultimately get paid less next year due to several other variables like a premium tax that is called for in the health care overhaul, the massive federal law that aims to cover millions of uninsured people.
And it was quite noticeable under the old and possibly soon to be new system that US corporations paid out much less in the way of dividends than did corporations under other tax systems.
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In addition, they want to tax their residents on their world-wide income (typically with a more or less limited credit for what they paid other states).
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