They are paying 29 percent effective rate, are they not?
In multinationals, that is a pretty high effective tax rate, correct?
Are you specifically aware of any maybe large contracts you have lost and potentially believe that it was because of our...
Would you say what happened to Arthur Andersen, which no longer exists because of the Enron scandal, is that something t...
Let us keep American companies American. Let us try and incentivize investment of global companies into America.
I would like to scrap the current tax code. I would like to just raise the revenue we need and stop economic and social ...
If Caterpillar is doing something wrong, the proper venue would be a court of law, tax court, and have the IRS adjudicat...
So we can change that law, we can change that reality, and then companies like Caterpillar will start manufacturing over...
Which probably, if we do this, would be exactly what large corporations like Caterpillar would do.
Can you talk a little bit about tax avoidance versus tax evasion?
there is nothing wrong with any taxpayer trying to comply with the tax code and trying to lower their tax burden, correc...
Why don't we lower the corporate income tax if we want businesses to stay here?
I just think it is extremely important for people to understand really how our tax code operates.
I kind of view--and this is just my assumption, that CSARL in Geneva is kind of a headquarters, with a limited headcount...
There is nothing nefarious in trying to minimize that tax burden?
So you did not stuff any kind of tax savings in a mattress or a pillow case. I mean, you actually put that to use----
You had a whistleblower say that you did not report $2 billion worth of income tax to the United States.
Do you feel that Caterpillar is at a competitive disadvantage because of the U.S. tax system?
