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Article #620078Re: Important US technology companies sold to foreigners
From: jmfbahciv
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2018 15:28
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2018 15:28
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Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote: > jmfbahciv <See....@aol.com> writes: >> I hadn't heard of buybacks. Are Apple and Walmart doing that? > > past posts mentioning stock buybacks > http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#stock.buyback > > 2015 rankings > http://fortune.com/2015/10/31/apple-ge-stock-buyback-chart/ > > apple, GE, walmart, home depot, qualcomm, glead sciences, united tech, > pepsico, amex, goldman > > 4 Companies That Have Repurchased the Most Stock Over the Past Decade > They've combined to buy back $563 billion worth of their stock in just > 10 years. > https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/07/20/4-companies-that-have-repurchased- the-most-stock-o.aspx > > apple, ibm, microsoft, exxonmobile > > Apple, tech companies to bring back $400 billion in overseas cash to the > US: Estimate > https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/05/apple-tech-companies-to-bring-back-400-billi on.html I knew they were doing buybacks but I hadn't heard about using the overseas money. /BAH > > ..... > > note that is just relatively recent tax loopholes made legal by > congress. > > spring 2009, IRS announced that it was going after $400B in taxes on > money illegally stashed overseas by 52,000 wealthy americans (over and > above tax loopholes that allowed trillions to be legally stashed > overseas) since the start of the century ... then little or nothing in > the news. spring 2011 the new speaker of the house has press conference > where he says he is cutting the budget for the IRS department > responsible for recovering the $400B. Since then there has been periodic > news about the banks and financial advisors have been fined a few > billion for their part in facilitating illegally stashing trillions > overseas (again, over and above the trillions that congressional tax > loopholes allowed to be stashed overseas "legally") ... but almost > nothing about recoverying the $400B in taxes owed on the money illegally > stashed overseas.
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