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Not surprisingly, US firms choose to keep their profits abroad.
The proposal would allow all future foreign profits of US corporations to be repatriated without any extra tax.
The $2.1 trillion of previously accumulated overseas profits would be subject to a one-time tax of about 10%, to be paid over several years.
Here’s how it would work: Companies that import goods would not be allowed to deduct those imports’ cost in calculating their taxable profits.
A key question is why good old competition does not whittle away these profits rapidly.
Add to that complex algorithms that set prices in a way that maximizes profits, and the company’s dominance seems relatively secure.
International cooperation should also be strengthened to prevent multinationals from avoiding taxes by shifting profits among jurisdictions.
If money-market funds had to maintain capital reserves, industry representatives argued, yields to investors would decline and the industry’s profits would suffer.
In January, Laurence Fink, the chief executive of the $6 trillion investment firm BlackRock, told business leaders that if they wanted his continued support, they must do more than generate profits; they must also serve a “social purpose” by making “a positive contribution to society.”
But, so far, the ESM has continuously posted profits, and any loss it does suffer will be spread among all shareholders – including, for example, Italy.
It is no accident that the world’s best firms – which have the highest productivity, profits, and wages, and invest in strengthening human capital – are trade champions.
Brazil can improve on this record by using profits from the offshore oil fields that it is currently developing.
Many developing countries lack a corporate income tax: the huge profits of the telecom, cement, and other monopoly sectors escape taxation.
The difference is that GDP is an order of magnitude larger than corporate profits represented by the stock market.
With the founding families in charge, chaebols’ top management can focus on a long-term vision, instead of short-term profits, and can mobilize resources swiftly.
The concern is that, after imposing a one-off levy on the untaxed profits that US firms hold abroad, introducing a territorial system would generate a tax loss.
The fundamental purpose of drug companies is to produce profits for shareholders.
The main obstacle is that they won’t increase the profits of drug companies, on which, in the absence of adequate government funding, our professional organizations, conferences, journals, research, and teaching institutions have become so dependent.
Some companies, such as C3 Energy, offer electric utilities software that can analyze their electrical networks to improve grid operations and asset utilization, thereby increasing profits.
To strengthen enforcement, penalties for misconduct must be proportionate not only to the crime’s severity, but also to the perpetrator’s profits.
Similarly, if Trump really does want to redistribute some income from capital to labor, and from corporate profits to wages (admittedly a big “if”), his policies could boost consumption; but his populist, protectionist policies would undermine business confidence, and thus capital expenditures, while reducing consumers’ purchasing power through higher inflation.
In this environment, Argentine consumers naturally also went on a spending spree, and corporate profits rose accordingly.
Teaching morality and values in business schools will not tame such behavior, but changing the incentives that reward short-term profits and lead bankers and traders to take excessive risks will.
Workers in the host country, such as software technicians and call-center operators, clearly benefit from BPO, but so do shareholders and company owners (whose profits grow) and consumers (who pay lower prices).
Likewise, Facebook and Google dominate the digital advertising market, but their profits allow them to offer ostensibly free email and social-media services that benefit consumers.
State-owned enterprises will be forced to distribute more of their profits.
Rising youth unemployment and cuts in pensions and social expenditures come at a time when many large multinational corporations legally avoid taxes by shifting their profits to favorable jurisdictions.
Likewise, US and European non-financial corporations saved $710 billion from lower debt-service payments, with ultra-low interest rates thus boosting profits by about 5% in the US and the UK, and by 3% in the eurozone.
Economic activity and business profits would have been lower, and government deficits would have been higher.
Those behind the problem – the world’s biggest polluters – continue to reap billions in profits, while receiving huge energy subsidies from governments (projected to reach $5.3 trillion in 2015, or about $10 million per minute).
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