


一 | AI摘要 国台办驳斥陆委会谣言,称台胞来大陆无风险。批评民进党阻挠两岸教育交流及限制公务员探亲,指出其意在制造对立、谋取私利。

二 | 北京8月19日电(记者许晓静、尚昊)针对台陆委会造谣抹黑大陆即将施行的《国务院关于出境入境管理的规定》、误导岛内民众“进出大陆会有风险”,国务院台办发言人朱凤莲19日在例行新闻发布会上表示,台湾民众来大陆完全不需要担心有什么风险。 WASHINGTON -- Charles and Kathleen Moore are about to have their day in the Supreme Court over a $15,000 tax bill they contend is unconstitutional.The couple from Redmond, Washington, claim they had to pay the money because of their investment in an Indian company from which, as Charles Moore, 62, said in a sworn statement, they “have never received a distribution, dividend, or other payment.”But significant parts of the story they have told to reach this point seem at odds with public records.The Moores are the public face of a high court case backed by business and conservative political interests that could call into question other parts of the U.S. tax code and rule out a much-discussed but never-enacted tax on wealth. The case is set for arguments on Dec. 5. The Moores are the latest example of plaintiffs whose lawsuits seem to simply be exercising their legal rights, but whose cases are backed by others with enormous amounts of money or a consequential social issue at stake. The Moores sought help from the anti-regulatory Competitive Enterprise Institute.Underscoring the case's importance at a recent Heritage Foundation event, lawyer Paul Clement said, "The constitutionality of a wealth tax may well be decided in the context of this case.”Details of the Moores' involvement with the company, initially called KisanKraft Machine Tools Private Limited, were first reported by Tax Notes, which caters to tax professionals. The public documents are filings with the Indian government.At issue in the case is a provision of the 2017 tax bill enacted by a Republican-controlled Congress and signed by then-President Donald Trump. The law applies to companies that are owned by Americans, but do their business in foreign countries. It imposes a one-time tax on investors' shares of profits that have not been passed along to them, in order to offset other tax benefits. The measure is expected to generate $340 billion in tax revenues.The Moores, along with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and conservative think tanks, contend that the provision violates the 16th Amendment, which allows the federal government to impose an income tax on Americans.The $15,000 tax bill was for the Moores' share of KisanKraft's profits."If you haven’t received any income, how can you be required to pay income taxes?” Charles Moore asks in a video posted by the Competitive Enterprise Institute.But far from being a passive investor with no influence over the company, Moore, who worked at Microsoft during his career in software development, served on KisanKraft's board of directors for five years.“The story the Moores told about Charles' involvement with KisanKraft is directly at odds with the fiduciary responsibilities of an individual holding a board seat for an Indian company,” Mindy Herzfeld, a professor of tax practice at the University of Florida law school, wrote in Tax Notes.And there are other indications of Moore's more extensive involvement with KisanKraft than his testimony indicated. The company paid for his travel to India four times and he made at least two investments beyond the $40,000 stake he put up in 2006.Moore also was prepared to invest an another roughly $250,000. That money was ultimately returned by KisanKraft, along with 12% interest.One other inconsistency is that while the Moores say they jointly invested the money, only Charles Moore's name appears in company documents.The couple and their lawyers did not disclose any of that information in legal filings in three different federal courts, including the Supreme Court.“The original declaration on which the case is built is full of lies,” said Reuven Avi-Yonah, an international tax expert at the University of Michigan law school.In a brief conversation with The Associated Press, Kathleen Moore said she and her husband would not discuss the case and referred questions to their lawyers. Andrew Grossman, the Moore's lead attorney, did not respond to messages seeking comment.The omissions, along with the Moores' failure to take advantage of other legal options that would have deferred, if not eliminated, their tax liability make Avi-Yonah and other experts in international tax law suspect the case was manufactured to get at a larger issue, the tax on billionaires that has been proposed by some prominent Democrats but never enacted.A wealth tax would apply not to the incomes of the very richest Americans, but their assets, like stock holdings, that now only get taxed when they are sold. “There really was no reason for the court to take it on, other than to send a signal to warn off the Congress from passing a billionaire tax," said Steven Rosenthal, a senior fellow at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center.Other provisions of the tax code could be upended by the court's decision, including measures relating to partnerships, limited liability companies and other business formations, Rosenthal said.Changes to those provisions also could affect some justices' finances. Chief Justice John Roberts holds a one-eighth interest worth up to $15,000 in an Irish partnership that owns a cottage in county Limerick, Ireland, and Justice Clarence Thomas' wife, Ginni, owns a limited liability company that generated between $50,000 and $100,000 in income last year from Nebraska real estate, according to the justices' financial disclosure forms. Two other recent Supreme Court cases advanced by conservative interests also raised questions about whether facts had been manipulated to get the disputes in front of the court. One of those involved a wedding website designer in Colorado who did not want to work with same-sex couples and a public high school football coach in Washington who wanted to pray on the field.Rosenthal said that “the ugly facts matter” and that the justices could return the Moores' case to a lower court without ruling on it.Charles Moore said in his sworn statement that he agreed to invest in the company that was being formed by his friend and former colleague at Microsoft, Ravindra “Ravi” Kumar Agrawal, because he liked the business plan and trusted his friend.“Moreover, I thought KisanKraft was formed for a noble purpose and had the potential to improve the lives of small and marginal farmers in India,” Moore said. The case had already kicked up ethical questions. Senate Democrats had asked Justice Samuel Alito to step aside from the case because of his interactions with David Rivkin, another lawyer who also is representing the Moores. The Democrats said Alito had cast doubt on his ability to judge the case fairly because he sat for four hours of Wall Street Journal opinion page interviews with an editor at the newspaper and Rivkin.Alito rejected the demands in a four-page statement issued by the court in which he said there “is no valid reason” for his recusal. ___Associated Press writer Fatima Hussein contributed to this report.___This story has been corrected to reflect that Mindy Herzfeld is a professor of tax practice at the University of Florida law school, not director of the master's program in international tax.。广大台湾同胞来大陆旅游、探亲、参访、交流,一定会乘兴而来、尽兴而归。 她介绍,《国务院关于出境入境管理的规定》是为了规范出境入境管理,保障出境入境人员的合法权益,维护国家主权、安全、发展利益。规定主要包括健全出境安全风险防范制度,明确出境入境申请事由应当真实、合法,规范出境入境中介服务等。该规定有利于维护两岸民众往来的合法权益,为台湾同胞来大陆营造更好的法治环境。 朱凤莲指出,民进党当局不遗余力禁限两岸交流往来,千方百计阻挡两岸同胞走亲走近,打压、恐吓、造谣等手段花样百出,台湾陆委会更是冲在前面成为两岸交流交往的“绊脚石”。

三 | 今年上半年台胞来大陆达到285万人次、同比增长24.9%,暑期来大陆观光参访的台湾同胞络绎于途,都是对民进党当局禁限阻挠最明确的回应。面对两岸交流交往滚滚潮流,民进党当局最害怕的是他们制造的“信息茧房”不断被戳破、构建的虚假“台独”叙事不断被揭穿,所以才会如此地信口雌黄。

四 | 据报道,民进党当局持续限缩两岸教育交流,台教育主管部门要求校方提供大陆研修生在台的每日行程、课程主题、参访地点等,并计划收紧审核大陆研修生和教师赴台申请,不少大陆研修生赴台项目被迫中断或彻底取消。对此,朱凤莲答问指出,这是民进党当局阻挠和禁限两岸正常交流交往的又一恶行。 她表示,两岸高校互派研修生行之有年,是两岸教育交流的重要组成部分,有利于推动两岸学术成果互学互鉴,促进两岸教育共同发展。民进党当局滥权妄为,无视岛内高校参与两岸交流的强烈愿望与现实需求,频繁将“黑手”伸向两岸教育交流,强行限缩大陆学生赴台研修,对台湾教育界威逼利诱,严重损害两岸教育交流和学生正当权益,令人不齿。

五 | 对于民进党当局有关台湾公务员赴大陆探亲的限制性规定,朱凤莲评论指出,民进党当局此前阻挠公职人员来大陆探亲、奔丧,如今又肆意侵犯台胞个人隐私,为的是阻挠台胞前来大陆,怕的是他们靠谎话欺骗、煽动“反中抗中”谋取政治私利的真实面目被更多台胞看穿。岛内的批评声音已经表明了广大台湾民众的强烈不满。
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