You paid more taxes than biggest Iraq contractor

Kellogg Brown Root is cheating US taxpayers out of hundreds of millions of dollars by paying their employees through a sham foreign company.

Sign our petition and ask Congress to close the loophole and make KBR pay its fair share.

Here's some tax day news that really made me mad: the biggest private contractor in Iraq isn't paying payroll taxes. Kellogg Brown Root, a spinoff of Halliburton and by far the largest private contractor in Iraq, set up two offshore companies in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying payroll taxes. The companies essentially consist of a computer file -- they don't even have an office or phone number.

That's right. A company making $16 billion a year off of U.S. government contracts hires its employees through a sham "foreign" subsidiary, costing Social Security and Medicare more than $100 million a year.

This is insane. Join with others across the country to help stop it. Sign our petition and ask Congress to close this loophole:

http://www.fusewashington.org/page/s/fairshare

Last month, Senator John Kerry and U.S. Representative Rahm Emanuel introduced the Fair Share Act in the Senate and House. The bill would change IRS rules to treat foreign subsidiaries of U.S. government contractors exactly the same as American employers. It would close the loophole KBR used to cheat American taxpayers.

In a Boston Globe article, KBR admits hiring its employees through the shell company in the Caymans, saying it keeps war costs down.1 This from the company that overcharged the government $279 million for questionable expenses!

We can't let them get away with it. Will you take a minute to sign our petition to Congress to pass the Fair Share Act and make KBR pay its fair share?

http://www.fusewashington.org/page/s/fairshare

Thanks for all you do!

Chris McCullough, Fuse

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^{1 Click here to read the Boston Globe Story about KBR's shell company in the Cayman Islands.}