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The Boston Globe - 3/6/2008

KBR Found to be Skirting Tax Payments from Employee Salaries

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CAYMAN ISLANDS - Kellogg Brown & Root, the nation's top Iraq war contractor and until last year a subsidiary of Halliburton
Corp., has avoided paying hundreds of millions of dollars in federal
Medicare and Social Security taxes by hiring workers through shell
companies based in this tropical tax haven.
 

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