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US Uncut, Author Nick Shaxson Team Up Against Tax Cheats

Joint Book Signing & Protest Planned in DC on Tax Day Weekend

Across America, over 80 Events Planned for Tax Day Weekend

Washington, DC – In coordination with US Uncut, author Nicholas Shaxson will hold a “guerrilla book signing” for his latest book Treasure Islands – Uncovering the damage of offshore banking and tax havens. On the storefront of a corporate tax cheat, Shaxson will join hundreds of taxpayers around the country voicing opposition to a corporate culture of tax avoidance in America.

Treasure Islands blows the lid off the corporate abuse of foreign tax havens and offshoring of profits. US Uncut, a grassroots movement organized through social media, connects corporate this tax cheating to cuts in valuable public services. The group has lead over 100 actions nationwide against corporations who do not pay their fair share in taxes, bringing protests directly to front door of corporate retail stores. US Uncut will hold more than 80 such events over the course of the upcoming Tax Day weekend.

“Billionaire corporations profit from the system of public services set-up by the government. It only makes sense for them to pay their fair share, just like everyone else,” said US Uncut MS organizer Carl Gibson, “No corporation is an island, even if they hide all their profits in tropical tax havens.”

WHAT: Book Signing and Peaceful Protest
WHEN: 12pm, Friday April 15
WHERE: Storefront of Tax Cheat in Union Station, Washington DC
WHO: Author Nick Shaxson and US Uncut

The primary target of the DC action on Friday, April 15 will be announced closer to the date, though organizers offered the following riddle as a hint: “Can you hear us NOW? Pay Your Taxes!”

“While we all pay our taxes this weekend, Congress just passed the largest spending cuts in US history, much of it to social programs and investments for our country’s future,” said US Uncut DC organizer George Taghi, “Instead of slashing public services like Head Start and Pell Grants, why not go after corporations who don’t bother to pay any taxes at all?”

Composed of self-organized citizens through social media, including Facebook and Twitter, the magnetic message of US Uncut has spread like populist wildfire. Anger is rising as Americans are being forced to endure brutal cuts at both the federal and state-level, for a budget crisis they did not cause. Over $100 billion estimated annually could be gained, if corporations ended practices of tax avoidance.

“Billionaire corporations have already abandoned America for foreign tax havens,” said US Uncut spokesperson Ryan Clayton, “They pay zero income taxes here, hold their profits in international banks, and ship millions of American jobs overseas. That is un-American.”

For more information on Nick Shaxson’s latest book: http://treasureislands.org/
For more information, please visit http://USuncut.org
For time & locations of all the actions: http://USuncut.org/actions

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US Uncut is a grassroots movement taking direct action against corporate tax cheats and unnecessary and unfair public service cuts across the U.S. Washington’s proposed budget for the coming year sends a clear message: The wrath of budget cuts will fall upon the shoulders of hard-working Americans. That’s unacceptable.

Read more at U.S. Uncut