There is widespread agreement, across the political spectrum, that the gaming of the tax code by multinational corporations is a problem. When profits and jobs are shipped offshore, we not only harm the U.S. economy, we fuel a tax haven industry that drains wealth around the world. We seek to fix the problem of large, well-connected interests gaming the tax system.
“Whoever is in power after the election is going to be facing pressure to addressing expiring tax cuts from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, protect popular social spending provisions in the tax code and navigate international tax reform efforts that seem to be happening with or without the United states that will impact U.S. multinationals,” Gurule said.
The Sentry’s report points to major ways the international community must act to deny kleptocrats the “brain trust” on which they rely to perpetrate their crimes. It’s up to the U.S. to be a leader, not a laggard, in implementing a robust anti-money laundering regime.
Germany has expressed its intention to move forward with a crucial piece of the OECD’s global tax agreement, introducing legislation to create a minimum corporate tax with or without the rest of the European Union.
On August 16, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law. The IRA, among other things, creates a corporate alternative minimum tax (CAMT) that applies a 15 percent minimum tax on the largest corporations worldwide, aggregate “book” income, adjusted for certain identified tax preferences.
On August 8, the FACT Coalition applauded the inclusion of crucial investments in the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and specific measures to combat tax dodging by multinational corporations in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which the Senate enacted over the weekend.
The Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency (FACT) Coalition welcomes inclusion of critical investments in the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and important but incremental steps to tackle tax dodging by multinational enterprises as part of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 passed by the Senate this weekend.
