Comments on: Report: 160,000 Acres Of Local Farmland Are Foreign Owned http://www.northescambia.com/2010/08/report-160000-acres-of-local-farmland-are-foreign-owned Local News for Molino, Bratt, McDavid, Century, Walnut Hill, Cantonment Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:41:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Kurlis http://www.northescambia.com/2010/08/report-160000-acres-of-local-farmland-are-foreign-owned/comment-page-1#comment-50043 Kurlis Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:54:06 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=24191#comment-50043 Your link - not that it is authoritative - doesn't say anything about shielding corporate taxes in the USA. You simply made that up. Your link – not that it is authoritative – doesn’t say anything about shielding corporate taxes in the USA.

You simply made that up.

]]> By: Native Floridian http://www.northescambia.com/2010/08/report-160000-acres-of-local-farmland-are-foreign-owned/comment-page-1#comment-49983 Native Floridian Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:26:11 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=24191#comment-49983 The Netherlands is home to almost 20,000 ''mailbox companies,'' Dutch shorthand for corporate shells set up by foreign companies and wealthy foreigners who use them to relieve taxes on royalties, dividends and interest payments, according to a report last November by SOMO, the Center for Research on Multinational Corporations, a nonprofit group in Amsterdam that monitors the business practices of large companies. Globally, some 1,165 companies use Dutch tax shelters to reduce or eliminate taxes on royalties and patents, according to SOMO. The report, which is critical of the emergence of the Netherlands as a tax haven, says that the number of mailbox companies ''has been increasing rapidly in recent years'' and that the shelters undermine efforts by governments worldwide to ''ensure that a level playing field is created where each country receives the fair taxation due to it as a result of the commercial activities undertaken within its borders.'' Source: http://alturl.com/bnh9t The Netherlands is home to almost 20,000 ”mailbox companies,” Dutch shorthand for corporate shells set up by foreign companies and wealthy foreigners who use them to relieve taxes on royalties, dividends and interest payments, according to a report last November by SOMO, the Center for Research on Multinational Corporations, a nonprofit group in Amsterdam that monitors the business practices of large companies. Globally, some 1,165 companies use Dutch tax shelters to reduce or eliminate taxes on royalties and patents, according to SOMO.

The report, which is critical of the emergence of the Netherlands as a tax haven, says that the number of mailbox companies ”has been increasing rapidly in recent years” and that the shelters undermine efforts by governments worldwide to ”ensure that a level playing field is created where each country receives the fair taxation due to it as a result of the commercial activities undertaken within its borders.”

Source: http://alturl.com/bnh9t

]]> By: Kurlis http://www.northescambia.com/2010/08/report-160000-acres-of-local-farmland-are-foreign-owned/comment-page-1#comment-49945 Kurlis Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:43:05 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=24191#comment-49945 "The Netherlands is a tax shelter hot spot that will shield the owners from corporate taxes in the USA." Not true. “The Netherlands is a tax shelter hot spot that will shield the owners from corporate taxes in the USA.”

Not true.

]]> By: David Huie Green http://www.northescambia.com/2010/08/report-160000-acres-of-local-farmland-are-foreign-owned/comment-page-1#comment-49933 David Huie Green Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:13:06 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=24191#comment-49933 REGARDING: "Most of the foreign owned land is controlled by corporations registered in the Netherlands." So they may not be Dutch? That's good, I don't want to have to wear wooden shoes or grow tulips. Per http://dor.myflorida.com/dor/taxes/corporate.html Corporations and artificial entities that conduct business, or earn or receive income in Florida, including out-of-state corporations, must file a Florida corporate income tax return unless exempt. They must file a return, even if no tax is due. So they may be exempt elsewhere, but if they earn income in Florida they are not exempt. REGARDING:
“Most of the foreign owned land is controlled by corporations registered in the Netherlands.”

So they may not be Dutch? That’s good, I don’t want to have to wear wooden shoes or grow tulips.

Per http://dor.myflorida.com/dor/taxes/corporate.html
Corporations and artificial entities that conduct business, or earn or receive income in Florida, including out-of-state corporations, must file a Florida corporate income tax return unless exempt. They must file a return, even if no tax is due.

So they may be exempt elsewhere, but if they earn income in Florida they are not exempt.

]]> By: Native Floridian http://www.northescambia.com/2010/08/report-160000-acres-of-local-farmland-are-foreign-owned/comment-page-1#comment-49895 Native Floridian Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:03:17 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=24191#comment-49895 Most of the foreign owned land is controlled by corporations registered in the Netherlands. The Netherlands is a tax shelter hot spot that will shield the owners from corporate taxes in the USA. The benefecial owners of the corporation could reside anywhere. Search Google using these key words for more info: Netherlands tax shelter Most of the foreign owned land is controlled by corporations registered in the Netherlands.

The Netherlands is a tax shelter hot spot that will shield the owners from corporate taxes in the USA. The benefecial owners of the corporation could reside anywhere.

Search Google using these key words for more info: Netherlands tax shelter

]]> By: David Huie Green http://www.northescambia.com/2010/08/report-160000-acres-of-local-farmland-are-foreign-owned/comment-page-1#comment-49884 David Huie Green Wed, 11 Aug 2010 06:44:27 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=24191#comment-49884 REGARDING: "You can bet your last dollar when you get them set they will chase you out also – even if your family has been there 100 years." You believe a person should be able to live on the land he used to own after he sells it even if the new owner objects? Interesting. REGARDING:
“You can bet your last dollar when you get them set they will chase you out also – even if your family has been there 100 years.”

You believe a person should be able to live on the land he used to own after he sells it even if the new owner objects?

Interesting.

]]> By: Molino Lady http://www.northescambia.com/2010/08/report-160000-acres-of-local-farmland-are-foreign-owned/comment-page-1#comment-49877 Molino Lady Wed, 11 Aug 2010 04:32:38 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=24191#comment-49877 We cannot create more land - we can create labor. Many governments who allow land to be bought can remove those who purchased it easily. Even the African countries who chased the British out after years of planting and feeding them want people to come in as corporations and buy lease/land. You can bet your last dollar when you get them set they will chase you out also - even if your family has been there 100 years. Often the trouble is not the individual folks who live there but the governments. India has their own Silicon Valley - have you called for help on your computer lately? We must not get rid of our natural resources so freely - especially our land. Maybe let them lease it for 50 or 100 years but never sell it to those who are not citizens. We cannot create more land – we can create labor. Many governments who allow land to be bought can remove those who purchased it easily. Even the African countries who chased the British out after years of planting and feeding them want people to come in as corporations and buy lease/land. You can bet your last dollar when you get them set they will chase you out also – even if your family has been there 100 years.

Often the trouble is not the individual folks who live there but the governments. India has their own Silicon Valley – have you called for help on your computer lately?

We must not get rid of our natural resources so freely – especially our land. Maybe let them lease it for 50 or 100 years but never sell it to those who are not citizens.

]]> By: David Huie Green http://www.northescambia.com/2010/08/report-160000-acres-of-local-farmland-are-foreign-owned/comment-page-1#comment-49864 David Huie Green Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:07:52 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=24191#comment-49864 (sorry about the misspelling Kurlis, the mind sees what it expects to see, not what is written) (sorry about the misspelling Kurlis, the mind sees what it expects to see, not what is written)

]]> By: David Huie Green http://www.northescambia.com/2010/08/report-160000-acres-of-local-farmland-are-foreign-owned/comment-page-1#comment-49863 David Huie Green Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:50:23 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=24191#comment-49863 (sorry about the misspelling Kurlis, the mind sees what it expects to see, now what is written) (sorry about the misspelling Kurlis, the mind sees what it expects to see, now what is written)

]]> By: JJ http://www.northescambia.com/2010/08/report-160000-acres-of-local-farmland-are-foreign-owned/comment-page-1#comment-49861 JJ Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:16:41 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=24191#comment-49861 @oh poo Well, since David refuted most of your statements.... I'll just take on the last one... Quote>"Remember folks Nothing coming in and everything going out is spelled B A N K R U P C Y" I don't agree with that statement at all. You are totally off base. Nothing coming in and everything going out is actually spelled.... B A N K R U P T C Y. ;-) @oh poo

Well, since David refuted most of your statements…. I’ll just take on the last one…

Quote>”Remember folks
Nothing coming in and everything going out is spelled
B A N K R U P C Y”

I don’t agree with that statement at all. You are totally off base.

Nothing coming in and everything going out is actually spelled….
B A N K R U P T C Y.

;-)

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