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PRINTER'S NO. 161
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
45
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY PASHINSKI, KOTIK, HARKINS, FREEMAN, McNEILL,
KORTZ, THOMAS, SCHLOSSBERG, MURT, COHEN, DeLUCA, McCARTER AND
V. BROWN, JANUARY 23, 2015
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, JANUARY 23, 2015
A RESOLUTION
Calling on the Congress of the United States to pass legislation
ending the practice of corporate inversion.
WHEREAS, Corporate inversion is the practice of nominally
relocating a corporation's headquarters to a country with more
favorable tax laws, typically while keeping the corporation's
major operations in its country of origin; and
WHEREAS, A number of American corporations have engaged in
the practice of corporate inversion recently; and
WHEREAS, Corporate inversion reduces the taxes a corporation
pays to the Federal Government as well as State and local
governments; and
WHEREAS, Taxes fund the maintenance of this country's
infrastructure, including roads, rails and utilities, and also
police and fire protection forces, court systems, economic and
research development grants and education and worker development
programs, all of which allow businesses to thrive; and
WHEREAS, Corporate inversion shirks corporations'
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responsibilities to contribute to the maintenance of programs
from which the corporations benefit, unfairly moving the tax
burden to the remaining domestic corporations and citizens; and
WHEREAS, The United States of America, through its many
programs and entrepreneurial culture, has helped bring these
corporations into existence and nurtured their growth; and
WHEREAS, Corporations have a patriotic duty to support their
country and a responsibility to future generations of workers
and entrepreneurs to help fund the programs and services from
which they benefited; and
WHEREAS, There is currently legislation before the United
States Congress that would help to end this unpatriotic and
unethical practice; therefore be it
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania call on the United States Congress
to pass legislation ending the practice of corporate inversion;
and be it further
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania call on American corporations to
perform their patriotic duty in supporting the infrastructure
that helped their initial success and allows them to continue to
be profitable.
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