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    Default Faux News weasels out of paying taxes...

    ...but rtber isn't outraged.

    How You End Up Bankrolling Fox News: News Corp. and Rupert Murdoch Weasel Out of Paying Taxes
    When giant, prosperous, multinational corporations get out of their tax obligations, ordinary citizens are the ones who are forced to make up the shortfall.
    March 21, 2011

    A few weeks ago video pimp and propagandist, James O’Keefe, released heavily edited and deliberately deceptive video that purported to expose an institutional bias at National Public Radio. It was quickly debunked and denounced as a fraud by analysts across the political spectrum, including those at Glenn Beck’s web site, The Blaze.

    Nevertheless, partisans in Congress and agenda-driven conservatives in the press continue to behave as if the video were legitimate. The House of Representatives, on a party-line vote, passed a resolution to defund NPR -- a purely symbolic gesture as the Senate is not likely to concur...

    ...However, if the right wants to introduce the issue of federal funding of the media into the public debate, they should be prepared to see their own Fox gored. Fox News has been the beneficiary of government largess for years and it is time stop it and make Fox pay its own way. As far back as 1999, there have been reports documenting how News Corp, Fox’s parent company, exploited loopholes in tax laws that permitted them to avoid levies that all other citizens have to pay. From The Economist:

    “…News Corporation and its subsidiaries paid only A$325m ($238m) in corporate taxes worldwide. In the same period, its consolidated pre-tax profits were A$5.4 billion. So News Corporation has paid an effective tax rate of only around 6%. By comparison, Disney, one of the world’s other media empires, paid 31%. Basic corporate-tax rates in Australia, America and Britain, the three main countries in which News Corporation operates, are 36%, 35% and 30% respectively.”

    The article goes on to describe how News Corp used a complex network of accounting dodges including as many as 60 shell companies that were incorporated in such tax havens as the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, the Netherlands Antilles and the British Virgin Islands. More recently, an investigation by the New York Times revealed that…

    “By taking advantage of a provision in the law that allows expanding companies like Mr. Murdoch’s to defer taxes to future years, the News Corporation paid no federal taxes in two of the last four years, and in the other two it paid only a fraction of what it otherwise would have owed. During that time, Securities and Exchange Commission records show, the News Corporation’s domestic pretax profits topped $9.4 billion.”

    http://www.alternet.org/story/150327...9Yvt7&rd=1&t=8


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    You started another thread whining about how GE paid no corporate taxes. When are you liberals going to realize that the guys who run corporations are a lot smarter than politicians and bureaucrats, and will figure out any legal way possible to avoid taxes?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Damn Yankee View Post
    You started another thread whining about how GE paid no corporate taxes. When are you liberals going to realize that the guys who run corporations are a lot smarter than politicians and bureaucrats, and will figure out any legal way possible to avoid taxes?
    So it's okay with you that they didn't? Or that they didn't pay back their TARP money?

    It's really enlightening to see how much righties stand up for corporations over people.


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    Quote Originally Posted by christiefan915 View Post
    So it's okay with you that they didn't? Or that they didn't pay back their TARP money?

    It's really enlightening to see how much righties stand up for corporations over people.
    Are you claiming that Fox didn't pay back TARP money?

    You seem confused.

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    Quote Originally Posted by christiefan915 View Post
    So it's okay with you that they didn't? Or that they didn't pay back their TARP money?

    It's really enlightening to see how much righties stand up for corporations over people.
    I don't blame anyone for trying to avoid taxes. Are you volunteering to pay more?

    With regards to the TARP issue, the government should never have done that, and if GE has found a legal way not to pay the money back, shame on the government.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rtber View Post
    Are you claiming that Fox didn't pay back TARP money?

    You seem confused.
    Try to read more carefully. Your attempt at a "gotcha" moment just failed.

    DY said: You started another thread whining about how GE paid no corporate taxes.

    I responded: So it's okay with you that they didn't? Or that they didn't pay back their TARP money?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Damn Yankee View Post
    I don't blame anyone for trying to avoid taxes. Are you volunteering to pay more?

    With regards to the TARP issue, the government should never have done that, and if GE has found a legal way not to pay the money back, shame on the government.
    Actually, I am paying more this year, based on an increase in income. So I can't complain.

    And why "shame on the government"? I'm pretty sure TARP wasn't a gift to anyone.


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    Isn't this thread about Fox?

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    Quote Originally Posted by christiefan915 View Post
    Actually, I am paying more this year, based on an increase in income. So I can't complain.
    That's not a voluntary increase. Why don't you volunteer to pay more? You must hate other taxpayers, since they have to make up the difference so our government can spend like money's going out of style.

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    Isn't this thread about Fox?

    So I should ignore a question if it doesn't pertain directly to the thread topic?


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    How does one "volunteer" to pay more taxes?


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    Quote Originally Posted by christiefan915 View Post
    So I should ignore a question if it doesn't pertain directly to the thread topic?
    Didn't you tell someone earlier to start their own thread under similiar circumstances?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rtber View Post
    Didn't you tell someone earlier to start their own thread under similiar circumstances?
    Do you always answer a question with another question?


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    Quote Originally Posted by christiefan915 View Post
    How does one "volunteer" to pay more taxes?
    Just write them a check. Make it out to "IRS". They'll cash it, no questions ax'd.

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    the article doesn't say how much profit they made in the US or how much tax they paid on it......do you have that data?........

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