From todays New York Times
Obama Calls for New Curbs on Offshore Tax Havens
By JEFF ZELENY and BRIAN KNOWLTON
"....American multinational corporations paid only $16 billion in taxes to the United States on $700 billion in foreign earnings — an effective tax rate of 2.3 percent — in 2004, the most recent year for which data are available, according to the White House. It distributed a statement that said that nearly one-third of all foreign profit reported by such corporations in 2003 came from three small low-tax countries: Bermuda, the Netherlands and Ireland...."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/05/business/05tax.html?pagewanted=1&ref=business
Looks like we could have even more trouble on the horizon.
Murt
Obama Calls for New Curbs on Offshore Tax Havens
By JEFF ZELENY and BRIAN KNOWLTON
"....American multinational corporations paid only $16 billion in taxes to the United States on $700 billion in foreign earnings — an effective tax rate of 2.3 percent — in 2004, the most recent year for which data are available, according to the White House. It distributed a statement that said that nearly one-third of all foreign profit reported by such corporations in 2003 came from three small low-tax countries: Bermuda, the Netherlands and Ireland...."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/05/business/05tax.html?pagewanted=1&ref=business
Looks like we could have even more trouble on the horizon.
Murt