Recently, Citizens for Tax Justice published a report on American Fortune 500 corporations are likely saving about $550 billion by holding nearly $2 trillion of “permanently reinvested” profits offshore. All these US companies are using Tax Havens outside the US to have their cash reserves. Microsoft has now over $92.9 billion outside the US which if brought inside would cost them about $29 billion. Microsoft is not alone in this case, Apple has over 138 billion, Cisco has over $48 billion, Google has over $39 billion. In the recent regulatory filing, Microsoft noted the following cash reserves, As of June 30, 2014, we have not provided deferred U.S. income taxes_or foreign withholding taxes on temporary differences of approximately $92.9 billion resulting from earnings for certain non-U.S. subsidiaries which are permanently reinvested outside the U.S. The unrecognized deferred tax liability associated with these temporary differences was approximately $29.6 billion at June 30, 2014. Income taxes paid were $5.5 billion, $3.9 billion, and $3.5 billion in fiscal years 2014, 2013, and 2012,...