Illinois Tool Works, J&J, GE, Whirlpool, Microsoft and Wabco declined to comment.

Illinois Tool Works、强生公司、通用电气、惠而浦、微软和Wabco均不予置评。

With lawmakers and the White House working to come up with a package of tax increases and spending cuts to trim the deficit and head off the 'fiscal cliff,' there is new impetus to change the corporate tax structure. There is also broad agreement that the current system, in which foreign earnings are kept offshore and untaxed, isn't working. But lawmakers and businesses disagree on a fix.

国会议员和白宫在努力制定一揽子增税及减支方案，以便减少赤字，避免跌落“财政悬崖。在这种情况下，改变公司税结构就有了新的动力。此外，人们普遍认为，将海外收益留在海外而不对其征税的现行体系成效不彰。但国会议员和企业界在如何解决这一问题上存在分歧。

The businesses want to pay taxes only in the country where profits are earned. They argue that being able to move their funds back to the U.S. freely would spur capital spending and help create jobs. As part of its proposal to lower the corporate tax rate to 28%, the Obama administration wants to expand the tax on foreign income to all income earned overseas.

企业想只在获得利润的国家缴税。这些企业认为，如果能够自由地把资金转移回美国，可以刺激资本支出，并有助于创造就业岗位。奥巴马政府希望把外国收入所得税的征收范围扩大到所有在海外获得的收入，这是其把企业税率降低到28%的提案的一部分。

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