Even by ship. At ourake another look federal freight policy, what advice would you give us to develop projects . Since we have approached planning from a regional in our area wed have to, we look at rail we have the northeast corridor. We have a number of spur lines. Most of them come from one location. We have freight coming in primarily from cecil county, maryland, coming down into delaware, spreading back and forth between states. Our Rail Networks are intertwined with our sister states. A regional approach is one way to look at this. We talk about the northeast corridor. The flexibility of funding is not tied to state lines. There are projects that are good for a number of states that it is hard for everyone to contribute to in one state. One of the things we have seen is, if we could potentially spread the local funding around, some of the projects that are waiting on funding along the northeast corridor technically, they are amtrak projects. Ther states could get projects moving,
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Tax rate of those companies to be reduced. And thats why were talking about this subject. So it appears that having a bow tie is not an indication of prof sor yal stature but tax planning. John, you started us off by talking about the fact that your view, this set of practices were a symptom of a larger set of drivers in the Corporate Tax structure and that ultimately and i think you wouldnt get any disagreement with anyone here we need to be addressing those larger drivers. But in the context of the current debate, first of all, can i ask you to ask would the measures that steve and steve have put on the table be effective and then we can go beyond that to say should treasury take it. Lets start with the effective. So the answer is i dont think so. But theres an overarching point before i get back into the weeds which is why are we trying to raise the bar so it will be harder for companies to leave the United States. Why arent we trying to do something to make it more attractive for t
Battlefield. And then ralph nader and Grover Nordquist discuss asks the state of bipartisanship in government. Treasury secretary jack lew spoke about actions his department could take to bolster Corporate Tax accountability and make the u. S. A more attractive place to invest. He weighs speaking at the Tax Policy Center in washington, d. C. His remarks are followed by tax law experts discussing the issue of corporate inversions, which is when a company tries to ease its tax burden by rye incorporating its affairs from one country to another. This is just under two hours. Theres some standing room in the front there on the left, if there are people feeling a hill crowded back there. You can come on over here. Yes. Okay. Good morning, everyone. I am sarah rosen moretell. And i have the opportunity for welcoming everyone here, including those of you standing in the back to, for joining us, a special welcome, of course, to our guest of honor, secretary jack lew. Its an enormous honor for
Or in a number of different other circumstances guaranteed debts and the like. Those trigger a current inclusion of these deferred income thats been allowed to accrue tax free just like your i. R. A. Has been allowed to accrue tax free. And in code section 956, congress authorized treasury to write regulations to prevent the avoidance of the provisions of the section through reorganizations or otherwise. So, again, treasury has been given authority under this code section to tackle the kinds of problems, economic challenges that the inversion phenomena exists. As i mentioned, there are over 500 specific grants of authority. Im only highlighting two here. I could speak to many more, but ill let the discussion continue. Thanks. So im going to return back to steve again. Steve, i want to ask if theres any other tools you want to add to that list, and then well spend a few minutes talking about first the impact of using those tools and then secondly how we think that would the wisdom of do