Financial Transparency Coalition

Citizens for Tax Justice's (CTJ) weekly Tax Justice Digest links the Google tax avoidance scandal to last week's revelation that multinational corporations are lobbying for a tax amnesty to repatriate billions of US$ "trapped" offshore: the lobbying by Multinationals for a tax amnesty. From CTJ:

Corporate lobbyists are once again asking Congress and the Obama administration for a tax amnesty for "repatriated" offshore profits. U.S. corporations that shifted profits offshore would get to bring that money back to the U.S. without paying the corporate income tax at the normal statutory rate of 35...

Video clips are now available on GFI's YouTube channel for every speaker at the July 24 Capitol Hill briefing on tax evasion and incorporation transparency that was organized by Task Force members Global Financial Integrity and Tax Justice Network along with Task Force friend, Citizens for Tax Justice. Check them out below: Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) made a surprise appearance at the briefing and spoke for a few minutes: