WASHINGTON (AP) -- End tax breaks that reward some U.S. companies with overseas subsidiaries and encourage those businesses to create jobs in other countries, President Barack Obama is telling Congress.
Yet it's an idea that has raised concerns even among some lawmakers in the president's own party.
At issue is a bill, now stalled in the Senate, that would do away with some tax credits and deferrals for U.S. companies for operations abroad.
"There is no reason why our tax code should actively reward them for creating jobs overseas," Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday. "Instead, we should be using our tax dollars to reward companies that create jobs and businesses within our borders."
Though Obama singled out Republican opposition, the bill also failed to get support from some Democrats, including the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont. He has expressed concern that the change would put the U.S. at a competitive disadvantage.
The ending of the tax provisions has run into opposition from business groups, including the National Association of Manufacturers.
Obama said that while companies that conduct business internationally do make an important contribution to the U.S. economy, it doesn't make sense to grant them tax breaks when companies at home are struggling to rebound from the economic crisis.
Obama has said he wants revenue collected from ending the tax provisions to go to other business tax breaks, by making permanent research and development tax credits and allowing businesses next year to write off all new equipment costs.
In the GOP address, Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., urged House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to call Congress back into session to take an immediate vote on whether to extend Bush-era tax cuts.
"The prosperity of the American people is more important than the political fortunes of any politician or any political party," Pence said.
Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., have said the tax issue will be taken up after the Nov. 2 election.
The tax cuts have been a point of contention between the president and Republicans in the lead-up to the midterm elections. The GOP wants to extend the tax cuts for all Americans, including the top income earners, while Obama wants to extend the tax cuts only for the middle class -- those families earning less than $250,000 a year.
Julie Pace, Associated Press Writer, On Saturday October 16, 2010, 1:37 pm EDT
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http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Obama-End-tax-breaks-to-stop-apf-795139056.html?x=0
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後記:
美國總統歐巴馬提到將取消海外設廠減稅，美國政府的這項舉動目的在吸引資金回流投資國內，以便增加國內的就業機會，讓失業率能降下來，不過詭異的是，在寬鬆貨幣政策的預期下，很多人認為美元會貶值，所以許多以美元計價的資產持續飛也似的逃離美國，而新挹注的貨幣也不斷失血外流到其它國家，甚至，在預期美元貶值的情況下，很多廠商早已改以其它貨幣報價，而一些知名觀光景點也出現拒收美元，改收其它貨幣的狀況，有些國家更是開始討論起跳過美元的清算機制，在這種情況下要吸引資金回流持有美元的可能性很低。
換個角度來看，美國國內投資行為不高的原因是，一方面美國的人力成本過高，另一方面各式各樣的稅收及規費居高不下，使得在這個成長趨緩的微利時代，美國國內企業只能望之興嘆，不但對本地的美國人沒有吸引力，更難以引入外來的資金活水。
美國的經濟要能止血穩住，就看何時美元能停止”驚驚貶”的情況，而美國國內市場能否再度活絡，就看何時美國政府對僱傭制度、企業的稅收及規費能有大幅度的彈性改革。吸引外來的活水投入，會比不斷舉債好很多，當外來資金願意投入時，就是美國的春天。
Jill 
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