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- The Hill: Frank Knapp, Small business opposes multinational corporations' tax avoidance
4/9/13 - Minimum Wage News at our BUSINESS FOR A FAIR MINIMUM WAGE website
4/8/13 - The Hill: Report: Taxpayers shoulder burden for offshore tax haven use
4/5/13 - Paramus Post (NJ): Offshore Tax Havens Cost Average Taxpayer $1,026 a Year, Small Businesses $3,067
4/5/13 - U.S. PIRG, Sen. Levin, Small Business Leaders Release "Picking up the Tab 2013: Average Citizens and Small Business Owners Pay the Price for Offshore Tax Havens"
4/4/13 - American Forum: Scott Klinger, Half Time at the Federal Budget Super Bowl
1/31/13 - Philadelphia Daily News: Talking Small Biz
1/22/13 - Triple Pundit: Don’t Blame Google and Starbucks For Minimizing Tax Bills
1/10/13 - Roll Call: Time for Plan C - Close the Floodgates on Corporate Tax Dodging
12/28/12 - CFO: Small Biz, the Fiscal Cliff, and the Big, Bad Bank
12/27/12 - Westerly Sun: Business leaders urge change in tax system
12/27/12 - McClatchy Tribune News Service: A plea for tax fairness from small businesses
12/24/12 - UPI: 'Fiscal cliff': Is there a Plan C to avoid tax increases, spending cuts?
12/23/12 - Madison Capital Times: Wisconsin business owners join national call to raise corporate taxes
12/23/12 - Charlotte Observer: Charlotte small business owners urge tax reform
12/20/12 - Politico: 'Revenue-neutral' tax reform takes hit
12/14/12 - National Journal: Sen. Levin, Small Businesses Push for Corporate Tax Hikes
12/14/12 - Washington Post: Sen. Levin wants corporate tax revenue in a fiscal cliff deal
12/14/12 - The Hill: Corporate revenues must be in debt deal
12/14/12 - Accounting Today: Small Business Leaders Urge Closing of Corporate Tax Haven Loopholes
12/14/12
Resources
National Opinion Poll: Small Business Owners' Views on Taxes and How to Level the Playing Field with Big Business
Small business owners see corporate tax loopholes and accounting gimmicks used to shift U.S. profits offshore to avoid taxes as serious problems, according to an independent nationwide opinion poll. Small business owners think big corporations and the wealthy don’t pay their fair share of taxes, the poll shows. They support increasing taxes on millionaire incomes, letting high-end tax cuts expire, and closing the carried interest loophole that gives big tax breaks to hedge fund managers.
Co-Signed Letter on Corporate Tax Reform to Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction
Excerpt: We are writing to urge members of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction to address in their recommendations to Congress serious inequities created by the U.S. corporate income tax code. Many profitable Fortune 500 companies pay no federal income tax at all – yet some members of Congress are pushing for further cuts to corporate income taxes.
October 26, 2011
The Honorable Jeb Hensarling, Co-Chair Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction
The Honorable Patty Murray, Co-Chair Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction
Tax Haven Abuse Resources
Small Businesses Say Don’t Reward Job Destroyers With Another Tax Holiday
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Repatriation Tax Holiday Would Increase Deficits and Push Investment Overseas
Letter to Congress: No "Repatriation" Tax Holiday for U.S. Multinationals
June 14, 2011
Dear Senators and Representatives,
As business organizations with small business members throughout the United States, we call upon Congress to reject pleas by U.S. multinational corporations for short and long-term tax holidays on profits held offshore, and to instead close the tax loopholes that reward companies for transferring U.S. profits, jobs and investment abroad.
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Bill Moyers Journal with Holly Sklar, Are We Living the American Dream in Reverse? PBS, 6/13/08