Corporate Tax Avoidance Quotes

More than half the world's largest 100 economies are corporations. They have no loyalties to place or citizens.

Small businesses already struggle to compete with big businesses that enjoy the luxury of a tax code filled with corporate loopholes.

Bain also asked Kansas City for a $3 million tax break. The Bain executives were taking home $36 million in borrowed funds and were asking Kansas City to forfeit $3 million in public money for police officers, roads and schools? More free stuff!

Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America

Before even getting to David Cameron's father here's a starting-point question about the Panama Papers: how is the desire to break the anonymity of Panama banking secrecy different from the FBI's interest in breaking Apple's encryption of the iPhone?

Almost no one raises the real issue of tax avoidance, right? And of the rich just not paying their fair share.

… a giant corporate welfare program

Employees pay the highest percentage of taxes. Big business and investors pay the least.

I'm disappointed in Burger King's decision to renounce their American citizenship. I call on companies currently mulling this tax dodge to reconsider and on Congress to protect U.S. taxpayers from more of these schemes.

When I talked about Boeing and I talked about General Electric, what I was referring to is an outrage... Right now you have a loophole such that these guys are putting their profits, multi-billion dollar profitable corporations putting billions of dollars into the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, and other tax havens.

I know the ugly history of corporate welfare, and that's not New York City's future.

I want to get rid of corporate welfare.

I think corporations should be asked to pay a greater share into the success of this country.

African countries lose billions every year because of tax dodging by big corporations and wealthy individuals. They lose billions more from overly generous tax incentives in a misguided belief that this is the only way to attract foreign investment.

We should make sure that nobody, no corporation, and no individual can get away without paying his fair share to support America.

Look at what I am proposing, and we [wih Bernie Sanders] have a vigorous agreement here. We both want to reign in the excesses of Wall Street. I also want to reign in the excesses of Johnson Controls that we bailed out when they were an autoparts company, and we saved the auto industry, and now they want to avoid paying taxes.

Our largest companies should not be able to get away with paying hardly anything at all. It is insulting when they engage in these games like moving their headquarters over to a foreign country, on paper, not in reality, just to take advantage of lower tax breaks.

One tax dodge often used by multi-national companies is to squirrel their earnings abroad in foreign subsidiaries located in countries where taxes are lower.

Any reduction in the corporate tax rate must also come with closing loopholes that have allowed the largest businesses in our country to pay less than they owe.

Even if there's no way to stop U.S. corporations from shedding their U.S. identities and becoming foreign corporations, there's no reason they should retain the privileges of U.S. citizenship.

If I own stock in your company and you move offshore for tax reasons I'm selling your stock. There are enough investment choices here.

I don't know how we will ever have the moral authority to deal with social welfare if we can't deal with corporate welfare.

Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.

If corporations are people, as the Supreme Court wishes us to believe, they are stunningly unpatriotic ones.

Instead of creating new jobs, Republicans gave tax cuts to companies that send jobs overseas.