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Article: SEN. GRASSLEY ISSUES STATEMENT ON OFFSHORE TAX EVASION
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- May 3, 2007
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The Senate Finance Committee issued the following hearing schedule or text of a hearing:
Hearing on Offshore Tax Evasion: Stashing Cash Overseas Statement of Sen. Chuck Grassley, Ranking Member
I want to thank Chairman Baucus for calling this hearing on offshore tax evasion and the international tax gap. Like the rest of the tax gap, offshore tax evasion is not a new issue. But it is an issue of growing importance in our increasingly global economy, where investment flows without regard to national borders, but a nation's taxing jurisdiction, and as a matter of policy or in practical effect, is often limited by national borders.
The focus of this hearing is to examine the problem of U.S. ...