Since November 28,2011 Judge S. Rakoff of the Federal District Court in Manhattan has been the man of the hour. His refusal to approve a $285 million settlement of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) with Citigroup Global Markets has attracted the attention of all parties involved in alike cases pursued by the SEC. It is not the disapproval itself but rather the reasoning that causes the SEC and future defendants to fear the effectiveness of settlements.
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Op-Ed: Why Corporations Should Think Twice About Plans To Lower Taxes
At first blush, advocating for lower corporate taxes like Republican candidates Herman Cain and Rick Perry looks like the kind of policy that corporations would salivate over. As conservative pundits like to point out, the United States already has the second-highest statutory corporate tax rate of all developed countries and that it stands alone in its attempt to impose taxes on the global income of its own corporations. The complexities of our tax code also encourage American multinational companies to shift more of their business abroad. And as businesses move away, American jobs move with them. Lowering corporate taxes would keep those jobs here at home and invigorate our economy. Everyone would win, right?
