19-04-2016 19:21 via thestranger.com

Microsoft, Boeing Among Corporations With Billions Stashed in Offshore Tax Havens

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The Guardian:
US corporate giants such as Apple, Walmart and General Electric have stashed $1.4tn (£980bn) in tax havens, despite receiving trillions of dollars in taxpayer support, according to a report by anti-poverty charity Oxfam.
The sum, larger than the economic output of Russia, South Korea and Spain, is held in an “opaque and secretive network” of 1,608 subsidiaries based offshor
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