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> Tax revenue not profits. Either you make a profit selling a thing or you don't. Fancy tricks like buying an item from a fully owned subsidiary and selling it at a loss to compensate for profits from services is not realising the value your services and products bring to the economy

You mean, make Apple a Chinese company because being an American one is no longer viable? A VAT would be more reasonable, as it taxes value actually added at each point in the system, rather than a flat tax on each point in the system as you are proposing.




No, stop permitting companies to give their IP to a foreign subsidiary to pay license fees that wipeout their domestic US taxable income


You mean, they should just develop their IP abroad then? Microsoft has a lot of R&D centers in china already, other companies are following suit.

Also, please say that you mean American companies, you obviously don't mean companies like SAP or infosys that the American companies compete with.




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