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G-8 summit turns focus to clampdown on tax-dodging
ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland — World leaders at the G-8 summit declared Tuesday that governments must work together to close loopholes that allow multinational corporate giants to avoid paying taxes in their home countries. In a joint statement...Tags: Vladimir Putin, Government, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Wars and Interventions, G20
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Up next for Galaxy: Wednesday vs. Portland
GALAXY TONIGHT VS. PORTLAND When: 7:30. Where: StubHub Center. On the air: TV: TWC SportsNet, TWC Deportes; Radio: 1330. Records: Galaxy 6-6-2, Timbers 6-1-8. Record vs. Timbers (2012): 3-0-0. Update: The Galaxy is seeking its fourth consecutive...
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Kim Deal leaves the Pixies, stays busy touring with the Breeders
It’s happened again: Kim Deal has left the Pixies, the influential rock band she co-founded with Frank "Black Francis" Black, guitarist Joey Santiago and drummer Dave Lovering in 1986. Deal is also the co-founder, with her twin sister Kelley, of the...
Tags: Pitchfork Music Festival, Travel, Music, Tourism and Leisure, Culture
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Getting 'In Bed with Ulysses' to celebrate Bloomsday June 16
James Joyce fans know that June 16 is Bloomsday, the single day in which all of his seminal novel "Ulysses" takes place. But as the video above reveals in its first seconds, not everyone is a James Joyce fan. It's the trailer for the documentary "Get in...Tags: NoHo, Authors, Kathleen Chalfant, Entertainment, Movies
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Europe rethinks its pursuit of austerity
LONDON — After years of unrelenting austerity, Europe seems to have turned a corner on its debt crisis — right into a dead-end street. Since the turmoil erupted in 2009, countries from Ireland to Greece have focused almost exclusively on...
Tags: Berlin (Germany), Italy, Angela Merkel, International Organizations, Labor Markets
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Apple's tax tricks give rise to lousy reform ideas
Apple Inc.'s success at avoiding billions of dollars in U.S. taxes through some (apparently) legal maneuvers has tax pundits pointing their guns at the corporate tax system. The case has revived numerous hoary cures for the supposed evil of corporate...
Tags: Companies and Corporations, Personal Income, Inventories, Economy, Business and Finance, Taxation
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Ireland is not a tax haven for Apple, ambassador says
WASHINGTON -- Ireland's ambassador to the U.S. declared Friday that his nation was not a tax haven for Apple Inc., formally disputing a congressional report that said company executives had negotiated a special low rate to shelter much of the firm's...
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Five things at stake for Apple at Senate tax hearing
Apple hardly seems the invincible name it was just one year ago. Faced with slower growth, a badly bruised stock price and questions about its innovation leadership, the company has plenty of fights on its hand. And now it has a new foe attempting to...
Tags: Companies and Corporations, Economy, Business and Finance, Tim Cook, Politics, John T. Chambers
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Apple tries not to stand out in the tax-avoidance crowd
Apple found itself in the uncomfortable position Monday of being labeled a corporate bad guy, drawing fire from senior senators in both parties for using subsidiaries in Ireland to reduce its tax bill. But if Apple has its way, its bitter rival Google...
Tags: Computing and Information Technology Industry, Companies and Corporations, Economy, Business and Finance, Crime, Law and Justice, Earnings
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PASSINGS: Vincent G. Dowling, John La Montaine
Vincent G. Dowling Actor, director gave Tom Hanks early break Actor and director Vincent G. Dowling, 83, who left behind a long career with Ireland's national theater to run a Shakespeare festival in Cleveland where he gave a young Tom Hanks an...
Tags: Journalism, Richard Nixon, Arts and Culture, Celebrities, John F. Kennedy
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Pay your taxes, Europe warns multinationals
LONDON — European leaders fired a warning shot in the battle against multinational companies that exploit loopholes or set up complicated schemes to minimize their tax bills, calling for collective action to thwart such practices. Britain,...
Tags: Eric Schmidt, Fredrik Reinfeldt, Government, E-Commerce Industry, G8
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Report: Apple avoided billions in U.S. taxes on foreign income
This post has been corrected. See the note at the bottom for details WASHINGTON -- Apple Inc. has used an elaborate web of offshore subsidiaries to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. taxes on $44 billion in foreign income over the past four years,...
Tags: Companies and Corporations, Earnings, Tim Cook, Hewlett-Packard Co., White House
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