John samuels ge biography
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The Law School Magazine The New York University School of Law
As debates over corporate tax policy raged last year, John Samuels LLM ’75 was an oasis of calm: As vice president and senior tax counsel for General Electric, Samuels, 67, has built the firm’s global tax operation into the equivalent of a giant tax firm, with approximately 1, tax experts in 44 countries, and a reputation as one of the most aggressive corporate tax operations.
Big enough and aggressive enough, that is, to make the front page of the New York Times in in a scathing and much-talked-about piece about just how little tax GE pays.
It’s all in a day’s work for Samuels, who describes GE’s tax techniques as akin to individual homeowners claiming the home mortgage interest deduction to lower their taxes.
“The government puts incentives out there, and we take advantage of them,” Samuels says simply.
“That’s the obligation we have to shareholders.”
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