Massachusetts Budget & Policy Center: By Taxing GILTI Profits, Massachusetts Can Reclaim Millions in Revenue Lost to Corporate Offshore Tax Dodging
ITEP Work in ActionMassachusetts loses out on hundreds of millions of tax dollars each year due to “profit-shifting”, a practice common among large, multinational corporations. International profit-shifting involves complex accounting maneuvers that make a corporation’s U.S. profits appear instead on the books of related companies located in offshore tax havens. It is an abusive form of tax avoidance that many multinational corporations use to lower their federal and state tax payments.