In another one of those bad ideas that never seem to go away, Congress may be about to grant a huge tax break to multinational companies that have stashed earnings in their foreign subsidiaries.
Mercer's annual survey has been designed to cater to the multinational companies and governments that use the study's results to help determine appropriate compensation packages for employees sent abroad.
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If implemented, these guidelines could lead to multinational drug companies being forced to sell some medicines at a third of their current prices.
The right answer (but not the one most likely to be offered) is that the days of handing out millions to multinational car companies are over.
Charlie Elphicke, a former tax lawyer and now a Conservative MP who has launched a campaign to end tax avoidance by multinational companies, said HMRC needed to be feared far more by companies.
It will still be more prestigious to head the multinational companies there's a difference between being president of the United States and president of Liechtenstein, and we're going to have a lot more Liechtensteins.
That change has much to do with an influx of multinational companies, such as General Electric, which has come in to exploit the highly educated and vast worker pool.
The results are used to help government agencies and multinational companies determine compensation allowances when sending employees abroad.
The revelations come as lawmakers around the globe are applying closer scrutiny to the taxes paid by multinational companies.
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Many multinational companies manage to pay substantially below the official corporation tax rates by using tax havens such as Caribbean islands.
This is actually a great example of what multinational companies need to be cognizant of when they source from a global talent pool.
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Analysts and professionals in the field expect that the strongest domestic firms will gain from intensifying competition in the markets and become attractive targets for multinational companies looking to expand in emerging channels in China and worldwide.
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With a population of 60 million, multinational companies are keen to secure a share of this emerging market.
Multinational companies are continuing to leverage the Internet to reach Chinese consumers.
"This decision is a real endorsement of Ireland's ability to meet the needs of leading multinational companies in the digital media space, " he said.
Multinational companies that respond to the survey have increasingly ranked developing-country host regions as highly important places to be investing in the next three years.
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Looking at data on American multinational companies from 1982 to 1999, the economists found that tax havens boosted economic activity in nearby non-havens rather than diverting it.
That change has much to do with an influx of multinational companies, such as General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ), which has come in to exploit the highly educated and vast worker pool.
Referring to reform of the Controlled Foreign Companies rules, he said the aim was to encourage multinational firms to come to the UK, not leave it.
This is probably necessary, given the need to co-ordinate the regulation of multinational companies.
Web technology was supposed to break down cubicle walls and make multinational companies seem as intimate as startups.
Some of the tens of thousands of hectares of land that he expropriated from multinational companies were given over to aspiring farmers for subsistence agriculture.
There is a suggestion that the mandatory requirement for quarterly reporting be dropped, but multinational companies will still have to report quarterly to their American investors.
The innovators and entrepreneurs currently working for multinational companies may do well to turn their attention to the several billions of people who lack many fundamental services but hold powerful computers in their hands.
EMI-Time Warner merger which would reduce the number of multinational music companies from five to four but has also featured in several other blocked deals, notably Airtours' attempted takeover last year of First Choice, a rival British travel company.
In the past it was only multinational companies that could afford to compete with global supply chains, not just because of the cost and complexity of operating trucks, aircraft and warehouses on different continents but also because of the difficulty of managing all these diverse elements.
President Obama has been in favor of granting more H-1B visas, and loosening policies that would allow foreign graduates to stay on and work in the U.S. Many multinational tech companies, including Microsoft, have called for more H-1B visas to be issued to fill gaps in the skilled labor pool.
Many multinational companies have already embraced it to demonstrate their commitment to security.
Take another example that the senators pointed to: Apple, as do many other multinational companies, uses a technique called transfer pricing.
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