多数公司不支付所得税
由 理查Rubin | 多数公司，包括做生意在美国的大多数外国公司，不根据a支付所得税， 政府责任办公室报告 被发布的星期二。
在报告包括的8年的期间，外国拥有的公司的72%去至少一年，无需欠税，并且同样对当地公司的55%是真实的。
小公司比更大的公司不是更多可能缴纳税。 但是， 2005年超过3,500个大当地公司-与超过$250百万在财产或$50百万在收入总额-没有缴纳税。
报告认为大约公司的80%没有学习缴纳了税，因为他们没有在费用以后创造任何赢利。 赔钱公司不能合法地欠税，并且其他可能使用税务规章的供应降低或消灭他们的责任。
但寻找数据的立法委员在报告占领了作为公司花招证明。
“它是卑鄙的许多公司什么都不获得大利润并且支付支持我们的国家”，说Byron L。 Dorgan， D-N.D.，与卡尔Levin， D-Mich一起请求报告。 “允许这种批发避免纳税的税收系统是窘态和不合理的对支付税他们的公平份额的勤勉美国人。 我们在税务名单需要塞住这些税漏洞和放回这些公司”。
报告包括期间从1998至2005年。 在那时，公司收入税，国民生产总值份额浸洗了， 2003年从2.2%在1998年%到1.2%，最低的份额自1983年以来。 但收据在那以后跳跃了，击中2.7% 2006年和2007年，根据管理和预算办公室。 那是最高的份额从70年代晚期。
GAO报告也发现外国拥有的公司比当地公司不是稍微可能报告收入。 有那的几个可能的原因。 外国公司也许是更加年轻的，并且起动不是可能在费用以后有净收入。 他们也许也在产业与更低的利润率。
另一种可能性可能是对调动定价的用途，公司使用占交易在辅助者之间用不同的国家。 Creative, rule-stretching use of transfer pricing can allow companies to push their profits into lower-taxed jurisdictions. The report does not attempt to examine whether illegal transfer-pricing caused the difference between foreign and domestic companies.
But companies looking for lower-taxed jurisdictions often take profits out of the United States. The country’s 35 percent top rate on corporate income is among the highest in the industrialized world.
Many tax experts and lawmakers from both parties, including Ways and Means Chairman Charles B. Rangel , D-N.Y., and presidential candidate Sen. John McCain , R-Ariz., have called for lowering the corporate tax rate. Lawmakers are likely to differ on what revenue-raising measures, if any, should be paired with a corporate rate cut.
In addition, Levin, Finance Chairman Max Baucus , D-Mont., and other senators have been trying to close the “tax gap,” the difference between taxes owed and taxes collected.
In a statement, Baucus said, “I’m committed to finding ways to improve compliance and reduce taxpayer burden so that we begin to bridge the tax gap, which accounts for $345 billion in legally owed but uncollected federal revenues each year.”
He said the GAO report “shows yet again the need for full-fledged [tax] reform next year….”
“We are constantly reviewing the tax code to find ways to crack down on those who are trying to avoid paying their fair share, without placing undue compliance or reporting burdens on honest taxpayers. As part of this on-going effort, we are reviewing the GAO report to see what it might suggest about where to target tax gap efforts,” Baucus said.
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