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08-28-2014, 11:34 AM #1
7 companies that keep more than $50 billion offshore
7 companies that keep more than $50 billion offshore
By Katie Lobosco @KatieLobosco August 27, 2014: 7:42 PM ET
Obama on tax inversion: 'It's not fair'
NEW YORK (CNNMoney)
Politicians are up in arms over the growing wave of U.S. corporations hooking up with foreign companies as a way to lower their U.S. tax bills.
But for some, a merger,known as an inversion, isn't the method of choice for paring a tax bill. There's another way to pay less in U.S. taxes, without relocating headquarters.
Plenty of companies that do business abroad delay paying big bucks to Uncle Sam by leaving foreign profits abroad, indefinitely. As long as they don't bring that money back home and reinvest it in the business, they don't have to pay U.S. tax on it.
Microsoft, for example, said that it lowered its tax bill by $29.6 billion last year by keeping $92.9 billion abroad, according to a regulatory filing by the company.
Related: How companies are shrinking their taxes
Why are so many U.S. firms reluctant to bring their profits home? Most experts say the problem is America's corporate tax rate, which is 35% on most corporate income. That's the highest rate among developed economies.
Companies typically reveal how much cash they're holding abroad in annual regulatory filings, but unlike Microsoft, don't often say how much in U.S. taxes they haven't paid yet.
Here are just seven companies that are keeping more than $50 billion offshore as of their most recent filings:
Companies like Apple that do business abroad can delay paying U.S. taxes on the billions of dollars they keep offshore, indefinitely.
Apple (AAPL, Tech30): $111.3 billion
General Electric (GE): $110 billion
Microsoft (MSFT, Tech30): $92.9 billion
Pfizer (PFE): $69 billion
Merck (MKGAF): $57.1 billion
IBM (IBM, Tech30): $52.3 billion
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ): $50.9 billion
http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/27/news...html?hpt=hp_t2
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