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By Theodore Roszak
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By Chris Hedges
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Apple will deprive the American public of $9 billion in U.S. taxes by paying shareholders with proceeds from a $17 billion blockbuster bond sale instead of using money it made abroad.
Posted on May 2, 2013
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It is estimated that each year developing countries lose to tax evasion one and a half times the amount they receive in international aid. In the U.K. alone, the practice costs more than $91 billion annually, more than is spent on defense, welfare or education.
Posted on Jan 10, 2013
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Patrick Chappatte, Cagle Cartoons, Le Temps, Switzerland —
Posted on Jan 10, 2013
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Christo Komarnitski, Cagle Cartoons, Bulgaria —
Posted on Jan 8, 2013
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Tom Janssen, Cagle Cartoons, The Netherlands —
Posted on Jan 7, 2013
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Martin Sutovec, Cagle Cartoons, Slovakia —
Posted on Jan 5, 2013
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French actor Gerard Depardieu has resorted to becoming Russian in order to avoid paying taxes in France, with a little help from Vladimir Putin of course; Jane Harman is being considered for CIA director, despite her past involvement in an Israeli intelligence influence operation; meanwhile, the Obama administration has been compiling a database that helps it determine how to treat a suspected terrorist. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Jan 4, 2013
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Karina Bolanos, a vice minister in Costa Rica, was let go after a video of her claiming her longing to her lover while clad in underwear was made public on YouTube; Americans apparently throw away nearly half of their food; meanwhile, a 15-year-old used the Internet to create an advanced cancer test. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Aug 25, 2012
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By Joe Conason — The central problem in Greece is the government’s failure to collect what taxpayers (especially wealthy taxpayers like Mitt Romney) actually owe under the law.
Posted on Jul 13, 2012
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Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin has renounced his American citizenship in a bid to avoid up to $67 million in taxes on the billions he’s expected to make when the company goes public. Democratic U.S. Sens. Chuck Schumer and Bob Casey have introduced a bill to punish such ex-citizens with heavy taxes and bar them from ever re-entering the U.S.
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You work hard. You pay taxes. But 26 corporations don’t—or at least they didn’t between 2008 and 2011. General Electric, Boeing and Verizon were among the major companies that together enjoyed more than $78 billion in tax subsidies over the last four years, according to a report by Citizens for Tax Justice.
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According to his wife, who was granted a visit with the dissident artist for the first time in the six weeks since he was detained at an airport and accused of tax evasion, Chinese authorities seem to be looking after the physical welfare of Ai Weiwei. The news dispels earlier rumors that he was being physically tortured, though he appeared mentally distressed, his wife said.
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Truthdig / Peter Scheer
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A Swiss judge fined the former banker who gave confidential files to WikiLeaks roughly $6,250, but spared the whistle-blower a prison sentence. Rudolf Elmer was found guilty of violating Switzerland’s confidential banking laws, which have protected such people as tax-dodging Americans and the Nazis.
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Swiss bank accounts aren’t what they used to be. Switzerland recently agreed to fork over information on 4,450 UBS AG bank accounts to the IRS as an investigation into suspected tax evasion threatens the good name that Swiss banking has provided to money launderers and tax evaders for centuries.
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By Robert Scheer — One wonders if Phil Gramm has been made just a tad nervous by the news on Tuesday that one of UBS’ super-wealthy private clients has pleaded guilty to tax evasion.
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A Florida court sentenced Wesley Snipes to 36 months in prison for tax evasion on Thursday, despite the actor’s plea for mercy and written character testimonials by fellow stars Denzel Washington and Woody Harrelson.
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Lobbyist Jack Abramoff pleaded guilty to federal charges of conspiracy, tax evasion and mail fraud, agreeing to cooperate in a corruption investigation that could rock the Republican congressional leadership. Story.
Posted on Jan 3, 2006
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