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TCU: Endowments Boom as Colleges Bury Earnings Overseas

Postby deucetz » Tue Nov 14, 2017 3:08 pm

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/08/worl ... ottom-well

American universities are using offshore strategies to swell their coffers, skirt taxes and obscure investments that could spark campus protests.

In 2006, the endowments of Indiana University and Texas Christian University invested millions of dollars in a partnership, hoping to mint riches from oil, gas and coal.

The partnership was formed by the Houston-based Quintana Capital Group, whose principals include Donald L. Evans, an influential Texan and longtime supporter of former President George W. Bush. Little more than a year earlier, Mr. Evans had left his cabinet position as commerce secretary.

Though the group had an impressive Texas pedigree, presidential cachet and ambitions for operations in the United States, the new partnership was established in the Cayman Islands. The founders promised their university and nonprofit investors that the partnership would try to avoid federal taxes by exploiting a loophole called “blocker corporations,” which are typically established in tax havens around the world.
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Re: TCU: Endowments Boom as Colleges Bury Earnings Overseas

Postby NavyCrimson » Tue Nov 14, 2017 3:25 pm

It's a free country and so long as it's legal, there are no issues. If anything this government should be creating a pro-growth environment where the schools invest the dollars here at home. But that's another story.
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Re: TCU: Endowments Boom as Colleges Bury Earnings Overseas

Postby prospy » Thu Nov 16, 2017 2:33 am

anybody who protests this is a moron.
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Re: TCU: Endowments Boom as Colleges Bury Earnings Overseas

Postby PhantomPhi » Mon Nov 20, 2017 2:56 pm

Why would a donor want to have their money placed where part of the income goes to taxes instead of students?
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