"This is an area that is still developing, and Europeans should not rush in to develop a solution right away," said Howard Liebman, a lawyer who heads up a working group on tax issues at the American Chamber of Commerce in Belgium.
Both coalitions say they will ensure that a bridge will be built between Sicily and the mainland a project that has been in the air for decades.Even the two groups' promises on tax are fairly similar.
Apple pays a 2.3% effective tax rate on its $181bn in cash held offshore, according to Citizens for Tax Justice, a not-for-profit research group focusing on tax policy.
Facebook is structuring its initial public offering in a way that will allow the company to sidestep federal and state income taxes on its 2011 earnings, according to a report from Citizens for Tax Justice, a nonprofit advocacy group focused on tax policy.
It is illogical to put so much emphasis on one tax and one group of people.
Some business groups are backpedaling on tax reform, and these are the best and worst state tax systems for entrepreneurship and small businesses.
Other groups that focus on tax and economic policy are preparing similar analyses, but say they regard the Tax Policy Center's assessment as highly reliable, based on its work in the past.
Margaret Hodge, chairwoman of the Commons all-party group on responsible tax, told the Sunday Times: "Multinationals like this are deliberately exporting their profits with artificial company structures to avoid tax.
But joining a living wage campaign for university cleaners, getting involved in a single-issue group on, say, tax justice or racism, or signing up to a political party (cough, except the Tories or Ukip, cough) – these can all help create a peaceful revolution to change society.
chief executive of Independent Sector, an umbrella group for nonprofits, on tax proposals that they fear could reduce charitable contributions.
