"... those companies paying higher taxes have seen their stocks outperform those with a lower bill ..."

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COMMENTS:
*  What a shock? Let me see, I wonder why? Oh! They OWN Congress by buying their votes. That was easy!!! Get rid of Citizens United and and go to public funding of elections. Violators go to PRISON, not just fines. Another suggestions Want to get rid of the deficit? Answer.--fine every politician and media spokesman who tells a lie $ 5 million dollars and make the super pac or company behind them pay the fine. Do it again and double the fine, and so on and so forth. We will be out of the deficit by next Tuesday!
*  If they make the money in the US, then make them pay US taxes regardless of where their "headquarters" are. period
*  Bernie Sanders was right, Wall Street regulates Congress
*  Donald Trump wants to make this situation far worse by cutting corporate taxes in half. Only Bernie Sanders is taking on the corporations and preventing them from sticking us many trillions more in deficit while taking away governmental services that benefit our society, you know those pesky things like education, social security, and medicare
*  god bless republicans we need to make the middle class pay for it
*  These companies are not doing something illegal. These are legal but are they ethical?
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US companies don't pay what they're supposed to in taxes — and it's getting worse
By Myles Udland, October 18, 2015

The US corporate tax rate is among the highest in the developed world.

But the 39% statutory rate isn't even close to what most big US companies pay. 

About 33% of S&P 500 revenues came from outside the US, but with most companies doing business abroad electing to park those earnings overseas, effective tax rates for America's biggest companies have stayed below statutory rates. 

"A tax incentive to repatriate foreign profits continues to be a topic of debate in Congress and has received some bipartisan support," David Kostin at the equity strategy team at Goldman Sachs wrote in a note to clients on Friday.

"Members of both parties would like US firms to repatriate foreign profits but they differ on how best to achieve that objective. Key lawmakers in the House and Senate have sought to use revenues from a tax on repatriated profits for infrastructure improvements. We expect that corporate tax rates will remain a topic of debate amid the looming debt ceiling and budget negotiations."


(Goldman Sachs)

Goldman added that as the presidential race continues — with candidates like Bernie Sanders looking to increase the corporate tax rate while others like Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio have proposed cuts to this rate — this issue is likely to stay in the headlines.

And while the typical narrative is that what US companies need is a lower tax bill to be successful, those companies paying higher taxes have seen their stocks outperform those with a lower bill, as the strong US dollar has benefited companies that do most of their business domestically.


(Goldman Sachs)
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