Corporations Ripping Off Poor Countries

There's a new report out today estimating that corporations are using loopholes, shelters, havens and other greed-driven shenanigans to rip off about half a trillion dollars a year in revenues from the poorest countries in the world. Undoubtedly, these are many of the same companies that brag in television commercials and PR materials about how they give to charity to help the world's poor. Maybe instead of doing that kind of PR, these companies should just pay their fair share in taxes.

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