BP Got A Good Butt Kicking!
1. BP will establish a $20 billion fund, but will pay only $7 billion into it during 2010.
2. BP is a British corporation which has a very large operating entity in the US , but only about 30% of it’s income is derived from the US .
3. By Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), BP must book the entire $20 billion expense in the year accrued. Therefore, they will book a $20 billion expense in 2010, reducing their US tax liability by $7 billion.
4. Our dear leader also convinced this massive corporation to show their concern for the “small people” by withholding dividends to their shareholders for the last 3 quarters of 2010. This reduces their outward cash flow by about $7.5 billion, including approximately 40% of that amount to US citizens. Assuming the Bush tax cuts will survive through 2010, the US Treasury will lose another $450 million in taxes on that amount. We won’t even discuss the effect on the US economy.
Let’s put the results into a table easily understood by normal people:
BP Cash Flow:
o Escrow funding ($7 billion)
o Dividend saving $7.5 billion
o Tax savings $7 billion
o Net favorable cash flow : $7.5 billion
US Treasury Tax Receipts:
o BP Corporate income tax …. minus $7.5 billion
o BP Shareholders ….. minus $0.45 billion
o Net unfavorable tax receipts ….. minus $7.95 billion
I guess we really should expect this. After all, our dear leader is the most inexperienced man in ANY room he enters.
Now tell me ..Did the enlightened one “Kick Ass”, or did he get “Sucker Punched”? This is just one more reason why a ‘community organizer” should NOT be negotiating anything dealing with money and finances!
Bottom line: The $20 Billion BP is putting up will create a $7.5 Billion positive cash for BP flow this year. But, Obama actually “thinks” he really did something special and “kicked ass’ (in his own words).
In reality, BP executives are laughing at him and ‘kicked his ass”. Oh well.. what’s new with this President anyway? He’s in over his head again when he starts dealing with “business people”.
Seriously, did no one see this coming or did they just hope that you wouldn’t notice or believe it could happen. Perhaps this is just another case of the media making news in an effort to make news. I get it now! Todays news is called “follow up.”
Should we file this under Foreign or Domestic policy. By the way, BP did not pay any income tax on earnings for 2010 just like Obama’s buddies over at GE!