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Worse, food corporations are also profiting from the proliferation of illnesses for which they are partly responsible, by marketing “healthy” processed foods enriched with protein, vitamins, probiotics, and omega-3 fatty acids.
Meanwhile, corporations are amassing market power at the expense of those at the bottom of the value chain: farmers and workers.
Even after various deductions, credits, and other tax breaks, the effective marginal rate – the rate that corporations pay on new US investments – remains one of the highest in the world.
Moreover, it is far easier to collect taxes from individual citizens and resident shareholders than from multinational corporations.
Such a change would reduce corporations’ incentives to move investments abroad or shift profits to low-tax jurisdictions, while increasing the progressivity of tax outcomes by shifting more of the burden of corporate taxation from labor to capital owners.
An increase in the corporate-tax rate appeals to many US voters who believe that corporations are not paying their fair share of taxes and are worried about widening income inequality.
Moreover, Western corporations are hierarchical and autocratic, similar to the Chinese one-party state, so senior executives’ errors of judgment are rarely challenged directly by their underlings.
The private sector, in particular, has the capacity and expertise to contribute substantially to international development efforts, through investments, loans, and even philanthropic resources provided by transnational corporations, financial institutions, foundations, and other sources.
The dynamics of the next 5 years will also reflect a head-on competition between winning corporations.
Most environmental organizations initially opposed it, with many believing it immoral for corporations to be able to pay for the right to pollute.
For example, purchases of bonds issued by euro-area non-financial corporations (NFCs) would probably have some direct pass-through effect on firms’ financing costs.
Investors have used ethical grounds in the past – excluding, say, tobacco companies or corporations abetting apartheid in South Africa – and have been successful in generating pressure on the underlying stocks.
Gouging the GauchosNEW YORK – Like individuals, corporations, and other private firms that rely on bankruptcy procedures to reduce an excessive debt burden, countries sometimes need orderly debt restructuring or reduction.
Like many corporations, China is moving most decisionmaking to the "business unit" level--semi-autonomous, self-governing economic region-states that compete fiercely against each other for capital, technology, and human resources (just as America's states do).
Introduction of foreign companies, technologies, and unfettered mobility for corporations and people would all be viewed as a threat to the Communist system if it were publicly acknowledged.
With its rate of 33%, France has one of the highest profit taxes on corporations in Europe.
Corporations, foundations, universities, and other non-profit organizations can promote much of the work of developing an open civil society.
Through an ever-increasing number of platforms, it is now easier than ever for households and corporations to access and engage in an expanding range of activities – from urban transportation to accommodation, entertainment, and media.
But if we do not explicitly choose between policies based on their effectiveness, often the decision is made for us by other factors, including which issue attracts the most media attention or has self-interested corporations and activists pushing for a specific investment.
The latter have become increasingly vocal and powerful, often represented by large multinational corporations.
So the Asians are coming: as markets, as states, as consumers, as financiers (Asian central banks, for example, are responsible for financing America’s whopping budget deficits), as scientists and engineers, and as corporations.
Of course, some corporations will get away with cheating.
And often – especially for corporations whose brands’ reputation is a major asset – the risk just isn’t worth taking.
So we have grounds to hope that as the millennials begin to outnumber those still running Volkswagen and other major corporations, ethics will become more firmly established as an essential component of maximizing the kinds of value that really matter.
At least among major corporations, scandals like the one at Volkswagen would then become increasingly rare.
Backroom lobbying by powerful corporations now dominates policymaking negotiations, from which the public is excluded.
Meanwhile, direct taxation of corporations and individuals has tended to decline – despite the moot claim that lower direct taxation ensures investment and growth.
In many developing countries, total tax revenue is derived from three main sources: domestic taxes on goods and services (sales and excise taxes), direct taxes (primarily on corporations), and, most important, taxes on foreign trade (import duties).
For example, multinational corporations use methods like transfer pricing (book-keeping of goods, services, and resources transferred between a single company’s branches or subsidiaries) to minimize tax liability on their profits from international operations.
But, rather than helping the BOJ to reach its 2% inflation target in two years, QE is causing interest rates on government bonds to increase sharply, thereby pushing up commercial lending rates for individuals and corporations.
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