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The Private Equity Limited Partnership Agreement Release: The Industry’s Snowden Moment
The private equity industry kingpin, KKR, systematically took advantage of its credulous investors.

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Walmart’s Top-to-Bottom Taxpayer Subsidies
Walmart executives get big bonuses as employees and taxpayers suffer.

Walmart’s Executive Bonuses Cost Taxpayers Millions
The study shows that Walmart was able to lower its federal tax payments by $40 million because of lavish pay packages awarded to just one executive — recently retired …

Joseph E. Stiglitz: Let’s Stop Subsidizing Tax Dodgers
A new report by Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz suggests that cracking down on corporate tax dodgers could be a cure for inequality.

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The Stiglitz Code: How Taxing Capital Can Counter Inequality
The American economy is at a crossroads. One of the questions that will determine which path we take is whether and how the government can use taxes to meet …

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Global Climate Change and Nuclear Abolition: One Urgent Issue
The Marshall Islands are filing lawsuits against the nine nuclear powers to get them to step up to their obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to negotiate total nuclear …

New Legislation Targets Multinationals that Renounce US Citizenship
Pfizer made headlines recently over its attempt to acquire Astra-Zeneca, which would allow it to become a “foreign” company for tax purposes, but the drug maker is not alone.

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Is Credit Suisse Really in Jail?
The reason for the kid-glove treatment, of course, is the fear that Credit Suisse is too big to jail.

FACT Opposes Tax Breaks in Senate Bill That Shift Profits and Jobs Off-Shore
With the Senate set to take up consideration of a package of over 50 tax breaks, the Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency Coalition is reminding the American people of …

How Parasite Corporations Like Pfizer Are Chucking US Citizenship to Escape From Taxes
Relocating to a country with a lower tax rate is one way giant corporations like Pfizer disregard their fellow Americans.