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Biden's proposed corporate tax hike may 'drive business outside of the US': EY CEO
Yahoo Finance ^ | January 27, 2021 | Alexis Christoforous

Posted on 01/28/2021 12:07:39 PM PST by Hojczyk

EY CEO Carmine Di Sibio has a message for President Biden: Tread carefully when it comes to raising corporate taxes.

“Any raise in the corporate tax would be a threat to U.S. business,” Di Sibio told Yahoo Finance Live. “I do think it would make the U.S. less competitive, and I think the tax rate elsewhere would be more beneficial.”

Biden has promised to roll back former President Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, which Di Sibio said were “very important for Corporate America.”

Trump slashed the U.S. corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%. Biden has proposed increasing that rate to 28%, in addition to a 15% minimum book tax.

“I think President Biden would have to be careful in terms of the corporate tax rate to make sure that we don't drive business outside of the U.S.,” Di Sibio said, adding that it’s important for Biden to “have business as a stakeholder.”

At her Senate confirmation hearing last week, then Treasury Secretary nominee Janet Yellen told lawmakers that the U.S. could absorb higher corporate taxes, as long as it remained competitive with other countries.

“We look forward to actively working with other countries through the [Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development] negotiations on taxes on multinational corporations to try to stop what has been a destructive, global race to the bottom on corporate taxation,” she told lawmakers.

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1 posted on 01/28/2021 12:07:39 PM PST by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

As intended.


2 posted on 01/28/2021 12:09:14 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (You are in far greater danger from authoritarian government than you are from a seasonal virus.)
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To: Hojczyk

Well, that IS Joe Joe’s intention. America Last...always.


3 posted on 01/28/2021 12:12:55 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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This is the real reason why we haven’t had alien contact. By the time a species reaches the point in technology where it becomes possible to have space travel directed by private citizens and entrepreneurs begin to fill the gaps threatening to gain wealth uncontrolled by government, democrats take over and drive the planet back to the stone age.


4 posted on 01/28/2021 12:15:33 PM PST by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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To: Hojczyk

WOW

Don’t like it?

Move your company to China...

Oh,. wait..


5 posted on 01/28/2021 12:18:47 PM PST by ASOC (This space for rent)
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To: Hojczyk

And some wonder why Trump had any success in bringing manufacturing to USSoil.


6 posted on 01/28/2021 12:19:06 PM PST by griswold3 (Democratic Socialism is Slavery by Mob Rule)
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Hope every woke corp gets eviscerated.


7 posted on 01/28/2021 12:22:27 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Hojczyk

“Any raise in the corporate tax would be a threat to U.S. business,” Di Sibio told Yahoo Finance Live. “I do think it would make the U.S. less competitive ...”

That would be difficult to refute. I’m not sure how a Leftist would even begin to try to go about it.


8 posted on 01/28/2021 12:22:47 PM PST by cdcdawg (My greatest fear is that our society will get what it deserves.)
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To: Hojczyk
“We look forward to actively working with other countries through the [Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development] negotiations on taxes on multinational corporations to try to stop what has been a destructive, global race to the bottom on corporate taxation,” she told lawmakers.

Socialism much? So much for “The Business of America is Business”

On the other hand, many, many companies have been virtue signaling the last year by embracing BLM and the cancel culture so.....

9 posted on 01/28/2021 12:22:58 PM PST by capydick (“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.)
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To: griswold3

Let’s not forget the Nat Assoc of Mfg that wanted Trump forcibly removed from office.


10 posted on 01/28/2021 12:23:50 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: capydick

welcome to the Venezuelan business model


11 posted on 01/28/2021 12:24:19 PM PST by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: Hojczyk

That’s not a bug, that’s a feature.


12 posted on 01/28/2021 12:24:37 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yep.


13 posted on 01/28/2021 12:34:31 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: Army Air Corps

14 posted on 01/28/2021 12:36:10 PM PST by skimbell
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To: Hojczyk

Organizations affiliated with EY (Ernst & Young) donated $400K to Biden compared to $55K to Trump. Reap what ye have sown!


15 posted on 01/28/2021 12:38:49 PM PST by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85 )
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To: tina07

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/ernst-young/summary?id=D000000098


16 posted on 01/28/2021 12:39:20 PM PST by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85 )
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To: Hojczyk

Senile Xiden didn’t come up with this corporate tax increase idea. The people behind Xiden did. Who exactly are those people so hell-bent on destroying the US. I know every one here will say the commies, but I want to know names.


17 posted on 01/28/2021 12:42:36 PM PST by diatomite (That grifter crook Biden or Kamella isn't my president and never will be!! Resist!!)
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To: Hojczyk

There are and have been so many loopholes. Some were closed, but the big tech companies are grandfathered which is why they pay 2%-4% effective rate on tens of billions in profits. They licensed their own content to their own overseas subsidiaries in tax havens, to put it succinctly, leaving very little profit in the US to tax.

A US manufacturer-exporter could still use transfer pricing and many other mechanisms to shift profits or divide profits among many subsidiaries to keep them under the top rates. Costs $1.00, sell it for $1.10 to an overseas tax haven subsidiary who then sells it for $10 to customers. The manufacturer shows 10% gross profit, probably even generating a net loss after expenses, while the overseas subsidiary makes 1000% profit and pays nothing.


18 posted on 01/28/2021 12:43:17 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: cdcdawg

“That would be difficult to refute. I’m not sure how a Leftist would even begin to try to go about it.”

They’d call you a raciss. Where you been?


19 posted on 01/28/2021 12:46:29 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Exactly.


20 posted on 01/28/2021 12:49:44 PM PST by cdcdawg (My greatest fear is that our society will get what it deserves.)
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