With the full Senate starting its debate on a comprehensive immigration bill, Republican lawmakers in the House have released a plan of their own. The Skills Visa Act, by Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), isn't completely new and is based on ...
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The U.S. government should bar foreign companies that repeatedly steal or use stolen U.S. intellectual property from selling their products in the country, a new report recommended. About US$300 billion worth of intellectual property is ...
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Apple pays a fair share of the taxes it owes the U.S. and other nations, its CEO said Tuesday, despite criticism from U.S. senators that the company is ducking taxes by shifting profits to subsidiaries that the company does not consider tax ...
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The US Senate has dragged Apple, the world's most valuable company, into the debate over the US tax code, grilling CEO Tim Cook over allegations that its Irish subsidiaries help the company avoid billions in US taxes. Cook said the ...
Apple has set up three foreign subsidiaries that the company claims are not resident in any nation for taxing purposes, in an effort to avoid paying tens of billions of dollars in taxes to the U.S. and other countries, according to a new ...
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High-tech's leading advocate in the immigration bill fight, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), has bought himself some time, perhaps until Tuesday, to try get the immigration bill changed to the liking of the tech industry. Negotiations are ...
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US House Republicans on Wednesday unveiled two new bills aimed at opening more federal lands to oil and natural gas drilling and reforming federal lease sales. The Federal Lands Jobs and Energy Security Act, (H.R. 1965), which was ...
A new bill introduced late Wednesday to the US Senate aimed at strengthening Washington's sanctions against Iran could affect Asian countries that pay for Iranian crude in foreign currencies, sources familiar with the matter said Thursday. ...
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A bill proposed in the U.S. Senate aims to block imports of products containing U.S. technology stolen online, a move that appears primarily directed at China. Introduced by four senators, the Deter Cyber Theft Act would require the U.S. ...
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Two U.S. senators will push Congress or President Barack Obama's administration to pursue trade and immigration sanctions against China and other countries that allegedly support cyberattacks on U.S. government agencies and businesses, the ...
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New hydraulic fracturing rules being developed by the Obama administration will drive oil and gas development from federal lands, a panel of industry and state officials said in their prepared testimony to a House committee Wednesday. The ...
The U.S. Senate has voted to allow states to collect sales tax from online retailers, making it more difficult to buy tax-free products online. The Senate's vote of 69-27 for the Marketplace Fairness Act late Monday sends the bill to the ...
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Against a backdrop of cornfields and farmhouses, this message appears on the home page of IT support services provider Caleris: "Outsource to Iowa. Not India." The point couldn't be clearer. The company is competing from rural Iowa ...
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The architects of Congress' looming tax policy reform have a lot of choices when it comes to energy tax breaks and federal subsidies, the US House of Representatives' Ways and Means Committee said Monday. "The broad proposals include ...
A handful of lawmakers have stalled the U.S. Senate from voting on legislation that would require large Internet and catalog sellers to collect state sales taxes from their customers. Supporters of the Marketplace Fairness Act still hope ...
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