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    avoiding paying taxes to the government of the United States and other countries. This tax avoidance costs the governments of various countries millions, if not billions of dollars in tax revenue every year. The government needs to stop the manipulation of tax loopholes by US corporations who are avoiding paying millions of dollars in taxes each year and eliminate the tax havens and loopholes once and for all. Tax loopholes need to be eliminated because multinational corporations avoid paying billions

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    ratio them more U.S. firms. One of the explanations for different financial structures is a different tax regime. For example, if interest income were taxes at higher rate, a preference for debt financing over equity financing would be expected. However, according to the empirical research, country differences in financial structure do not seem related to any systematic to country difference in tax structure. Another explanation is that these country differences may reflect cultural norms, cultural

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    common? Your parents are paying them millions of dollars each year through the government. To this day we continue to see major corporations avoid paying their taxes through loopholes such as tax havens. Some of the most well known companies to you and your families, Walmart and McDonald’s, have taken your tax money from the government because they pay their employees so little that they cannot afford any social services. And the big banks of Wall Street are getting bigger and bigger each day, so big

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    bribes from foreign companies and invest it in tax havens to transfer it to india when needed. It is also generated through evasion of taxes by hiding the income from public authorities. Commercial sector also generates a huge sum of black money by creating an imbalance between exports and imports by under-invoicing exports and over-invoicing imports from countries like Singapore, UAE, and Hong Kong etc. The figure bellow shows manipulations of accounts for tax evasion.

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    taxation it delineated a way for tax avoidance. With the old laws, these multinational corporations were allowed to take a tax advantage. They were allowed to move their business revenues, which permitted them to go into a lower tax bracket and be taxed at a “tax haven”. This allowed them to claim less tax and be more profitable. For example, foreign-owned corporations pay less tax if operating in the U.S. rather than elsewhere and vice versa. This creates a tax advantage for these corporations because

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    could have swayed Bush or Obama into extending the tax cuts but private interests were clearly involved to allow this to continue. Over the past couple of years, the government is faced with shut down because of law of funds and debt but still continue to allow the hyper wealthy and large conglomerates to continue to reap immense profits without paying their fair share. How to evade taxes To add a new level of complexity to the equation that allow tax lawyers to work their magic for large corporations

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