Foreign Insurers Use Deceptive Scare Tactics to Preserve Unfair Tax Advantage
WASHINGTON, April 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A proposal in President Barack Obama 's FY 2014 budget would defer a tax deduction for reinsurance premiums paid to foreign affiliates by domestic insurers, thereby closing a tax loophole that costs the Treasury billions of dollars in tax revenues annually and provides foreign-based insurance groups a significant, unfair advantage over their U.S. competitors.
Under the loophole, domestic insurance companies with foreign-based parents can escape U.S. tax on much of their underwriting and investment income derived from their U.S. business merely by reinsuring this business with a foreign affiliatein a low-tax or no-tax jurisdiction. This provides them an advantage over domestic groups in attracting capital for writing insurance to cover U.S.-based risks and erodes our tax base.
I am sure there many other types of companies doing the same, and some are in Puerto Rico. I know that is a way of these companies to get their profits, but it is one of the main reasons why Americans are lacking jobs in stateside. I think though there is no real way to stop companies from opening business in other countries the USA should ask of companies that they most have a certain amount of business on mainland if they are to have business elsewhere. This in order to keep a healthier job bank stateside. And probably a good reason why to make Puerto Rico a state. Congress should demand American based companies to keep their bast production stateside for taxation purposes.
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