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Our Solution To Burger King-Style Abandonment Of U.S. Gains Traction 

http://ourfuture.org/20140827/our-solution-to-burger-king-style-abandonment-of-us-gains-traction?utm_source=pmupdate&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20140827 

Amidst all the news about Burger King – another company renouncing its US “citizenship” to avoid paying taxes for the roads, courts, police and the rest of the government services that made them prosperous – an idea that Campaign for America’s Future has been promoting is gaining traction. The technical name for it is “Single Sales Factor Apportionment” but it just means tax companies based on how much they sell here.

In the post, “A Simplified Way To Tax Multinational Corporations,” I discussed a report by District Economics Group economist Michael Udell that “offered a bold new alternative that is so radically simple that even the most clever corporate tax accountant would have a hard time finding a way around its fair and universal proposition: If a company sells products or services in the U.S., it must pay taxes on the U.S. proportion of its worldwide sales.”...