Post #278,082
3/12/07 8:20:52 PM
3/12/07 8:21:14 PM
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Halliburton relocates senior management to Dubai
CEO: So long, suckers.
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Post #278,088
3/12/07 9:10:37 PM
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How many millions will they save in taxes?
I heard that Dubai is an even better tax dodge country than the Cayman Islands.
lincoln
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Post #278,092
3/12/07 9:45:33 PM
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Wonder why
Tax dodge, or no extradition treaty? Probably both.
Jay
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Post #278,108
3/13/07 12:55:44 AM
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Don't get in a lather
they're still going to be incorporated in DE and still maintaining the offices in Houston. So on its face, no tax dodges. Extradition maybe...but not likely...since he will travel.
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Post #278,109
3/13/07 1:40:44 AM
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Yeah, but it's all set up . . .
. . just in case a Democratic administration captures some of the Bush administration's hard disks before they are all destroyed.
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Post #278,120
3/13/07 9:07:11 AM
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Doesn't matter.
No mention of trading off of the NYSE. Long arm of the law attached itself to the stock exchange long ago.
Even the CEO will have to pay US taxes while living in the UAE.
Sam's got reach.
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Post #278,154
3/13/07 5:17:53 PM
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That's naive
if the records are offshore - it seems unlikely that a subpoena will carry any real weight.
I think it has to do with enhancing opacity of their records.
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Post #278,149
3/13/07 2:22:57 PM
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I've "been there, done that"
with companies that vehemently proclaim, "we're not going to lay off anybody!" I don't believe them for a minute.
lincoln
"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow
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Post #278,262
3/14/07 5:25:34 PM
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Besides, not much oil pumped near Houston.
Also, [link|http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/070314/halliburton_growth.html?.v=2|Halliburton to add 13,000 new workers in 2007]: Oil services company Halliburton Co., which plans to move its chief executive to Dubai, said it will add more than 13,000 new employees in 2007.
In a memo sent to workers on Tuesday, Chief Operating Officer Andrew Lane wrote: "It is our expectation that our planned growth for 2007 to 2009 will mean that we will hire more than 13,000 new employees in 2007. This will include growth in our Houston employment numbers." Alex
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Post #278,166
3/13/07 7:36:27 PM
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Forbes: Trading With The Enemy
[link|http://www.forbes.com/global/2004/0419/041_print.html|http://www.forbes.co...19/041_print.html]
If you want to get round export controls, just sell the product to a front company in Dubai. The middlemen will take it from there.
On paper the shipment was harmless enough. Sixty-six American-made spark gaps--high-speed electrical switches used in medical devices to break up kidney stones--traveled from the manufacturer in Salem, Massachusetts late last summer to a buyer in Secaucus, New Jersey. From there, according to the export declaration, they were to be shipped to their ultimate destination in Cape Town, South Africa. But these spark gaps can also be used to detonate nuclear bombs--and it turned out that the goods were aimed at an end user in Pakistan, with a stopover in Dubai. The commercial capital of the United Arab Emirates, where trading activity accounts for the biggest single chunk (16.5%) of a $20 billion economy, has become a favorite diversion point on the Persian Gulf for shady cargo. With no export controls and hardly any bureaucracy at ports, airports and free zones, this entrep\ufffdt provides stellar cover for smugglers hoping to bypass U.S. embargoes.
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I guess it is about export controls.
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