Corporate Tax Cuts

The Most Powerful Company You've Never Heard of: Meet CME Group

Elizabeth Parisian | Posted 05.04.2012

Elizabeth Parisian

Given both its immense power and its history, we would be wise to keep an eye on CME Group. There has never been a better time to stand up to this powerful company and demand that it give our money back.

The Corporations That Make Money Off Taxes

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 04.09.2012

Instead of giving money to the government, it turns out more than a few U.S. companies are actually making money off their income taxes. In a recen...

Corporate Tax Rate Hits Ten-Year Low

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 03.05.2012

Nobody likes tax time. But for many companies, that annual burden is getting a lot lighter. Corporations are enjoying not only record profits, but ...

Dan Froomkin

Who Loses Big In Obama's Tax Plan?

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 02.23.2012

WASHINGTON -- Every one of the dozens of corporate tax loopholes and subsidies that President Barack Obama announced this week he'd like to expunge ha...

Jillian Berman

OOPS: Romney Wrongly Claims Obama Raised Corporate Tax Rate

HuffingtonPost.com | Jillian Berman | Posted 01.25.2012

The only problem with Mitt Romney's fact check of President Barack Obama after his State of the Union address was that the Republican presidential can...

David Cay Johnston: A Corporate Tax Code For A Different Century

Reuters | Posted 03.15.2012

(Repeating for wider distribution.) NEW YORK, Jan 13 (David Cay Johnston, Reuters) - Big business is lobbying for a major cut in the corpora...

Occupy Repatriation: No Trillion Dollar Tax Break Without Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs

Brent Budowsky | Posted 12.13.2011

Brent Budowsky

A tax holiday for massive repatriation without any jobs requirement would be a massive bonus rewarding American companies for exporting American jobs and outsourcing American prosperity.

Bush Tax Break For Overseas Corporations Was Costly Failure

Posted 12.11.2011

(Reuters) - Congress should not endorse another big tax break for overseas corporate profits because the last one in 2004-2005 was a costly failur...

Obama Calls For Corporate Tax Cuts, But Paying For Them Is The Hard Part

The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

President Barack Obama called on Congress to lower corporate tax rates in his State of the Union address Tuesday night, suggesting the measures could ...

Lucia Graves

Pelosi Open To Cutting The Corporate Tax Rate

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.25.2011

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that she is open to cutting the corporate tax rate. In a taped interview with the NewsHour's Judy Woodruff...

How Government Spending Stimulates Private Investment

Rep. Charles A. Gonzalez | Posted 05.25.2011

Rep. Charles A. Gonzalez

To get through these hard times, we need to work together, every one of us, as a country, and this legislation is a solid foundation on which we can build.

Thomas B. Edsall

Stimulus Includes Tax Cuts That Obama Economists Panned As Ineffective

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 05.25.2011

At least $23.8 billion in corporate tax breaks have been included in the $825 billion economic recovery package in order to win backing from key busin...

The Great Corporate Tax Heist

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 05.25.2011

Robert L. Borosage

Remember the old Steve Martin routine on how to make a million dollars and not pay taxes: "First, make a million dollars... Second, don't pay taxes." Turns out Martin's joke is standard operating procedure for corporations in the US.