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To: Smiling Bob who wrote (87055)	3/11/2013 12:46:43 PM
From: Bonefish	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 119360

Who came with this COD forgiveness thing for mortgages?

To: Smiling Bob who wrote (87055)	3/11/2013 2:34:48 PM
From: ggersh	1 Recommendation Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 119360

Maria is going to pee her panties, more money on the sidelines.... fcuking WS and corporations, treasonous, what the "Greatest Generation" fought for, what a bloody shame General Electric Avoids Taxes By Keeping $108 Billion Overseas The Huffington Post \| By Bonnie Kavoussi Posted: 03/11/2013 11:36 am EDT \| Updated: 03/11/2013 12:42 pm EDT 0 The company with the most profits parked overseas is General Electric, according to a new Bloomberg analysis of 83 corporations. GE said in a Feb. 26 regulatory filing that it was holding $108 billion in profits overseas as of the end of last year. That is up from $102 billion a year before. GE said in the filing that it reinvested most of these profits in foreign business operations and does not intend to bring those profits back to the U.S. The practice of holding profits overseas has been highlighted as a strategy to avoid paying taxes. GE paid no U.S. taxes at all in 2010, according to The New York Times -- an allegation GE spokesman Seth Martin called "untrue" in an email to The Huffington Post Monday. GE did not comment on the $108 billion in profits overseas. Sixty big U.S. companies analyzed by the Wall Street Journal kept on average more than 40 percent of their annual profits overseas last year. The companies have attributed a growing amount of their revenue to foreign sales, and they have assigned patents and licenses to foreign subsidiaries. Thanks to these practices, the U.S. is not only losing out on tax revenue, but it is also missing money kept overseas that will not be used to invest in the U.S. or pay dividends to shareholders. It has become increasingly common for companies to move or keep their profits overseas. The biggest U.S. companies boosted their offshore cash hoards by 14 percent last year, according to a separate Bloomberg report. Apple, Microsoft and Google together have more than doubled their overseas holdings over the past two years. The drugmakers Merck and Johnson & Johnson each saved about $2 billion last year by shifting profits overseas, according to Bloomberg. Bloomberg reported that some congressmen, including Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), want to crack down on corporate tax avoidance. "GE did not get a tax refund in 2010, and in fact paid U.S. federal income tax and more than $1 billion in other federal, state and local taxes in the U.S. for 2010," Martin wrote in an email to HuffPost. "GE’s overall tax rate for 2010 was low because we lost $32 billion in our financial business during the global financial crisis." But GE has come under fire for its light tax burden. Though it has been earning billions in profits, it paid an average tax rate of just 1.8 percent between 2002 and 2011, according to Citizens for Tax Justice. GE CEO Jeff Immelt has said that the U.S. tax system is "old, complex and uncompetitive" and has had a "hugely negative impact" on the economy.