"Spencer - partly true, but it remains the case that the main way they reduce their tax rates is by putting operations outside of this country, and they do their decision making based on the marginal rate, . . ." more
Matt Lykken graduated with honors from Harvard Law School in 1985 and has been working as a tax attorney for 22 years. He began his career with the Office of Chief Counsel, I.R.S., and for the last 17 years has worked as an international tax planner and tax department head living in the U.S. and abroad, working for both U.S. and foreign owned corporations. He has advised governments from Trinidad to newly post-communist Poland on the design of their tax systems, and has been a member of the core evaluation team for dozens of corporate investment decisions. He is intimately familiar with the negative effects of acquisitions of U.S. corporations by tax subsidized foreign rivals.
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Hello, Matt. I enjoyed your "Confessions" article and your responses to the comments. I am no legal eagle but I do understand the motives of some corps. As a matter of curiosity, what percentage of your current employer's income is derived from oversaes operations? In my opinion. there are two main reasons for the "outsourcing". Taxes and Unions.
