Posted on 07/15/2004 11:21:32 AM PDT by ArmyBratproud
Tax legislation proposed by Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry last year was designed to crackdown on companies doing business overseas - but the proposal had one giant loophole: an exemption for companies like the H.J. Heinz Foods Co., the source of his wife's vast fortune.
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If the US would remove the income tax on monies made in foreign countries by US companies there would no longer be a need for companies to setup headquarters off shore. That is the primary reason that companies do so. By simply setting up a small office and having it as the companies headquarters on some island they no longer have to pay US income tax on earnings earned OUTSIDE the US.
< sarcasm> I'm shocked < /sarcasm>
Wednesday, July 14, 2004 7:35 p.m. EDT
Kerry Carved Out Tax Loophole for Heinz Foods
Tax legislation proposed by Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry last year was designed to crackdown on companies doing business overseas - but the proposal had one giant loophole: an exemption for companies like the H.J. Heinz Foods Co., the source of his wife's vast fortune.
The stunning Kerry-Heinz conflict of interest came to light on Wednesday in a report by Donald Luskin, chief investment officer of Trend Macrolytics LLC, published in National Review Online.
"Already Kerry's economic proposals seem tuned to serve his wife's economic interests," Luskin contended.
"His proposal last March to end tax breaks for U.S. corporations that do business overseas was designed with a loophole that would let the H.J. Heinz Company — the centerpiece of Mrs. Kerry's family fortune — keep its overseas tax breaks, and get a lower domestic tax rate at the same time."
Luskin cited Kerry's Heinz Foods tax loophole as just one example of why it was absolutely imperative that his wife unseal her tax returns before the election.
So far the prospective first lady has agreed to make just two pages of her tax forms public - and then not until October. Meanwhile, there are indications that she may have significantly understated her income.
Limited tax information released by Mrs. Kerry in March put her annual 2003 income at $5 million. While the Heinz Kerrys refuse to reveal the full extent of their wealth, the Los Angeles Times valued her net worth last month at between $900 million and $3.2 billion.
Even if Heinz Kerry picked extremely conservative investments, Luskin said, her reported income was suspiciously low.
"Let's put this in terms that people of less extreme wealth can relate to," he wrote. "If you had $100,000 invested last year and your investment income was only $500 - the same percentage as Mrs. Kerry's income - then something would be very much out of whack."
Luskin said that Heinz Kerry's financial figures, such as they're known to date, suggest that she is either "the world's worst investor" or "Mrs. Kerry may be the world's greatest cheat."
"We can't know exactly what is out of whack with Mrs. Kerry's income, if anything, because ... [her] separate [tax] returns have never been made part of the public record," Luskin said.
Trying to find a copy of Kerry's proposal has proven impossible. I want to wave in a liberal friend's nose.
The following is quoted directly from an article about the Kerry proposal at:
http://www.techcentralstation.com/041504C.html
The Kerry team clearly recognized the possibility that they were causing significant harm, because they added a loophole. If a U.S. multinational produces a product in a foreign country for consumption in that country, then they will continue to allow the firm to avoid U.S. tax until the money is mailed back home. . . . Assuming that the Kerry-Heinz family's share of the [Heinz] company is four percent, which is the upper limit of what has been reported, then this loophole saves Mr. Kerry's family around $33 million. It is easy to see why they might support this loophole, but hard to see why anyone else would.
I would check Congressional record.
Sometimes they have link up from the Library of Congress.
I know its like county hay bails(I used to have look that crap up all the time)..but it may be the easiest place to find it.
I will check some other places I know of.
Wow....Kevin's article busts Kerry for more claims of people supporting his policy/and him...who don't support him or is policy. This time the non supporter in question is Kevin himself. Kerry claiming that someone like Hassett supports a Kerry policy is an idiotic claim.
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