{"id":14319,"date":"2015-10-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/apple-ge-among-american-companies-holding-2-1-trillion-in-offshore-accounts\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T15:09:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:09:04","slug":"apple-ge-among-american-companies-holding-2-1-trillion-in-offshore-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/apple-ge-among-american-companies-holding-2-1-trillion-in-offshore-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Some American Companies are Holding $2.1 Trillion in Offshore Accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of what you&#039;ve read online about IRS problems is wrong, or at least misleading. I&#039;m Darrin Mish. I practice tax law in Tampa and I&#039;ve been doing this for 32 years. Here&#039;s what&#039;s actually true.<\/p>\n<p>No doubt $2.1 trillion dollars is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/us-tax-evasion-cases-apple-ge-among-american-companies-holding-21-trillion-offshore-2129580 \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">almost impossible to comprehend<\/a>. However, that\u2019s the estimated amount that corporations have stashed in offshore tax havens.<\/p>\n<p>That amounts to an estimated $620 billion dollars in U.S. tax revenue that remains unaccounted for. While the study was conducted by so-called left leaning non-profits, numbers and stats generally don\u2019t lie. It\u2019s how stats are analyzed that generally needs tweaking. The numbers were calculated from filings by the Securities and Exchange Commission.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"pullquote\">Up to 75% of Fortune 500 companies take advantage of tax havens. That\u2019s a lot of money that\u2019s unaccounted for. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Some of the names of the companies at the top of the tax haven list are well known, and include Apple, Microsoft and Pfizer just to name a few. General Electric also has mega bucks stashed away in overseas tax havens. <a href=\"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/tag\/tax-evasion\/\">While the U.S. and other countries are working to crack down on tax evasion, tax havens make huge profits in the wake.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out more <a href=\"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/category\/irs-news\/\">IRS News<\/a> stories by clicking that link.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"rank-math-contact-info wpseo_map_compat\"><\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"rank-math-contact-info wpseo_address_compat show-address show-address-only\"><div class=\"rank-math-contact-section rank-math-contact-address\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"rank-math-contact-info wpseo_opening_hours_compat\"><\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of what you&#039;ve read online about IRS problems is wrong, or at least misleading. I&#039;m Darrin Mish. I practice tax law in Tampa and I&#039;ve been doing this for 32 years. Here&#039;s what&#039;s actually true. No doubt $2.1 trillion dollars is almost impossible to comprehend. However, that\u2019s the estimated amount that corporations have stashed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[591],"tags":[135],"class_list":["post-14319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irs-news","tag-tax-evasion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22677,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14319\/revisions\/22677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}