That is why America has one of the harshest tax regimes in the world.
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Critics claim such places, which operate low-tax regimes, are used by companies for tax avoidance or evasion.
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Also included in the report is a PwC survey of the tax regimes of 182 countries worldwide.
So the discussion continues, with interesting ideas on how the downsides of separate tax regimes could be handled.
These companies are used to working across international boundaries, and multiple tax regimes.
So that would be three distinct tax regimes over a several year period.
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Or, there could be problematic new royalty or tax regimes on the horizon.
Romania and, even more humiliating, Slovakia, with their flat-tax regimes, look more attractive.
Many have company-friendly tax regimes at which the valley's businesspeople look with envy.
With governors on the run with evolving tax regimes, the time to watch your home team advance is now.
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Only Jersey, Hong Kong and Guernsey had identifiable flat tax systems, plus a few other places like Singapore with similar tax regimes.
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There are also risks of nationalization in some countries or higher-tax regimes.
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This long-term trend from relatively high-tax states toward lower-tax regimes is typical for most states, even when close borders are not shared.
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As examples, it cited "potential changes in EU regulatory and tax regimes".
The greater ease with which investment can move freely between member economies from high- to low-tax regimes is putting pressure on governments to reduce tax rates.
Formula apportionment is attractive to governments that have punitive tax regimes, and it would be a blow to nations with more sensible low-tax systems.
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Many experts predicted these hi-tech firms - full of young, mobile people - would simply move abroad in search of more sympathetic tax regimes.
The exception provides a tax result for U.S. multinationals that their competitors based in foreign countries generally have long enjoyed under their residence-country tax regimes.
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Colombia has one of the highest tax regimes in the Americas.
The Google chairman Eric Schmidt said his firm was complying with tax laws, but he said it was not companies but governments that decided tax regimes.
The Sandler review recognises the role that tax plays in contributing to complexity and calls for simplification of the more than 20 tax regimes that govern pensions.
The real truth of the matter is that any system of taxation which subjects the same income stream to the tax regimes of two countries is double taxation.
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By returning to the tax regimes that favour married couples?
The report added that many mineral-rich countries needed "urgently to review the design of their tax regimes", which were designed to attract foreign investment when commodity prices were low.
Increasingly, Europe's politicians, even its socialists, are discovering that if they want to create jobs they need entrepreneurs, and to get entrepreneurs they must create more attractive tax regimes.
The claim comes as European countries step up efforts to clamp down on U.S. companies which minimize their tax bills in the continent by channeling profits through low-tax regimes.
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After all, we live in a world where different countries operate with different tax regimes, competing (I would hope) to attract businesses -- and therefore jobs -- to their shores.
There are five different tax regimes for withdrawals: tax free, only the principal tax free, taxable at regular rates, taxable at regular rates plus 10% and taxable at regular rates plus 25%.
The next big test for the government will come when Congress considers another tax fix, which would untangle a snarl of different sales-tax regimes in Brazil's 27 states and increase federal transfers to municipalities.
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And they know the causes: a decline in economic growth made worse by regulatory thickets (with or without societal benefits), and entitlement obligations and tax regimes that drove the entrepreneurial instinct out of Europe.
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