tax dodges

Donald Trump

Amazon chief uses Washington Post to avoid taxes, Trump says

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump says Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos is using his newspaper to help the online retailer avoid taxes. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee tells Fox News that Bezos is "using The Washington Post for power so that the politicians in Washington don&

Barack Obama

Obama blocks corporate tax ‘inversions’ spawned by high rates

WASHINGTON – The question at the heart of President Barack Obama's recent directive ordering the Treasury Department to pump the brakes on U.S. companies gobbling up smaller foreign businesses to take advantage of a friendlier overseas corporate tax climate is whether America's corporate tax rate is