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The International Access Model

Tax access, not domicile. Tax havens become irrelevant overnight.

In Plain English

Foreign mega-companies pay for access to American customers — no more hiding in tax havens.

Today, big companies move their headquarters to tiny islands to dodge taxes. Under this plan, it doesn't matter where the paperwork says they live. If 20% of their sales happen here, then 20% of their company counts as American — and they share their growth on that piece like everyone else. Refuse, and they lose access to American customers entirely.

The Problem Today

The domicile shell game

Multinationals relocate headquarters to Ireland or Bermuda, route profits through letterbox subsidiaries, and pay near-zero tax on enormous American revenue. Every attempt to chase domicile has failed because paper can move faster than law.

The Fix

Market Access Apportionment

The AST ignores where a company is headquartered and focuses on where the revenue comes from. Access to 340 million American consumers is the most valuable commercial privilege on earth — and the AST prices it.

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The key numbers, at a glance

Global corporations are taxed by Sales Factor Apportionment: Taxable Equity = Global Equity × (US Sales ÷ Global Sales). Where a company is headquartered stops mattering — what matters is access to the American consumer.

Formula

Equity × US/Global Sales

Sales Factor Apportionment

Tax Havens

Obsolete

Domicile is ignored entirely

Compliance Path

US Subsidiary

Book-value growth of the US entity

Refusal Penalty

100% tariff

Market Access duty

What exactly is broken today?
  • Profit-shifting drains hundreds of billions from the US base annually.
  • Domestic companies that can't relocate subsidize those that can.
  • Enforcement chases paperwork across dozens of jurisdictions.
How the fix works, point by point
  • Taxable Equity = Global Equity × (US Sales ÷ Global Sales).
  • US Subsidiary Rule: parents may designate a US legal entity; the tax applies to growth in its book value — avoiding WTO extraterritoriality claims.
  • The Fallback: refuse to incorporate a US subsidiary and a 100% Market Access tariff applies.
Case Study: The German Auto Giant

A German car company has a Global Market Cap of $100 Billion and sells $20 Billion of cars in the US annually. US Sales ÷ Global Sales = 0.20, so the AST deems 20% of the company's equity ($20 Billion) to be American Equity. If the company's value grows 10%, the Trust claims 40% of that growth on the $20 Billion slice — paid in-kind, like every other AST liability.

Why this survives trade law

Rather than taxing the global parent directly — inviting WTO disputes — the US Subsidiary Rule taxes the growth in book value of a domestic legal entity the parent itself designates. The structure is jurisdictionally clean: every nation taxes its own domestic entities.

What Would Your Raise Be?

See the Compensation Preservation Protocol (CPP) work for your own paycheck

$50,000
$20k$250k
$15,000
$0$40k

The US average employer contribution is ≈ $15,000/year for family coverage — money you earn but never see in your paycheck.

Today

$50,000

+ $15,000 hidden premium

Your New Cash Wage

$65,000

an immediate $15,000 raise

Year 0 — Total Comp Freeze: the OTV certifies your Total Compensation Load at $65,000.

Year 1 — Mandatory Conversion: private premiums are abolished; the Fair Labor Standards Act makes the certified baseline your new minimum cash salary. Your employer’s costs don’t change a penny: $0 net.

The Wage Clawback Clause: an employer who pockets your $15,000 instead faces the Unjust Enrichment Tax — 100% of retained savings plus a 20% punitive surcharge, a $33,000 penalty. It is mathematically more expensive to steal the savings than to pay you.

Plus: your monthly Citizen’s Dividend covers the sales tax on groceries, rent, and utilities — paid before you spend a dime.

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