Corporate Tax Rate

In Corpore Sano?

Evan Soltas | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Taxes, Corporate Taxes, Corporations, Effective Corporate Tax Rate, Corporate Tax Rate, Business News
Evan Soltas

America is having the wrong conversation about corporate taxes. The problem isn't that corporate tax rates are too high, or that these rates are rendering us uncompetitive. This all-too-common story is simply untrue.

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Corporate Tax Rate and a Busy Lame Duck Session

Ted Kaufman | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: AT&T, Ge, Business Rountable, Bush Tax Credits, Nike, Elections., Lobbyists, Boeing, Romney, Lame Duck Session, Budget Deficit, Obama, Corporate Tax, Capitol One, Congress, Corporate Tax Rate, Corporate Taxes, 112th Congress, Politics News
Ted Kaufman

Since Japan lowered its rate last April, our corporate tax rate has been the highest in the world. There is no disagreement in Washington, believe it or not, that a 35% rate is too high. What complicates things is that very few if any corporations actually pay that rate.

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Alexander Eichler

Apple Pays Shockingly Low Corporate Tax Rate

HuffingtonPost.com | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Google, Tech Sector, Apple Profits, Corporate Tax Rate, Microsoft, Mitt Romney, Corporate Taxes, Barack Obama, Yahoo, Tech Companies, Xerox, Apple, Apple Tax Evasion, Corporate Tax Breaks, Apple Earnings, Tax Repatriation Holiday, Corporate Tax Loopholes, Video, Business News

How much of your income went to taxes this year? There's a decent chance Apple Inc. paid a smaller share. That's the contention of a report rele...

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Time for a 99 Percent Tax Revolt

Elizabeth Parisian | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: 99 Percent, Tax Day, Obama Buffett Rule, The One Percent, Stand-Up-Chicago-Rally, Corporate Tax Rate, Tax Day 2012, Statutory Corporate Tax Rate, Stand Up Chicago, Stand Up Chicago 99 Percent Citizen Tax Enforcers, Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, Tax Reform, Fortune 500 Corporations, Citizens for Tax Justice, Video, Chicago News
Elizabeth Parisian

For the 99 percent of Americans who don't use lobbyists to bend the tax rules, Tax Day is a day for reflecting on why we pay taxes.

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Top 10 Dirty Corporate Tax Dodgers of 2011

Rebecca Tarbotton | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Taxes, Rainforest Action Network, Bank of America, Chevron, Corporations, Corporate Tax Rate, Oil Subsidies, Big Oil Subsidies, Corporate Tax Breaks, Corporate Greed, Green News
Rebecca Tarbotton

Bottom-line, these dirty corporations don't need any more handouts, bailouts, or subsidies. Our country does not have a money problem; it has a priorities problem.

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Americans Say Others Not Paying Fair Share Of Taxes

The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Business News, Google, Barack Obama Taxes, Survey, Corporate Tax Reform, Tax Reform, Facebook, Corporate Tax Rate, Business News

It's not that Americans just don't like paying taxes. They also really don't approve of the U.S. system as a whole, according to a recent survey. ...

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Senator On Corporate Tax Rate: 'This Isn't An April Fool's Day Joke'

Reuters | Posted 03.31.2012

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* Japan's corporate tax rate dropping to 38.01 pct on Sunday * Combined U.S. 39.2 pct rate will be developed world's highest ...

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Corporate Tax Rate Hits Ten-Year Low

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Taxes, Corporate Tax Cuts, Video, U.S. Corporate Tax Rate, U.S. Corporate Taxes, Corporate Tax Rate, Barack Obama Taxes, Corporate Tax Breaks, Corporate Tax Reform, Corporate Tax Loopholes, Corporate Taxes, Obama Corporate Taxes, Business News

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

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Alexander Eichler

General Electric Paid A Tiny, Tiny Tax Rate This Decade

HuffingtonPost.com | Alexander Eichler | Posted 02.28.2012

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General Electric again finds itself the focus of a politically-charged battle over corporate taxes. A new analysis of the mega-corporation's tax f...

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The President's Corporate Tax Reform Message: Say What?

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Obama, Corporate Tax Loopholes, Tax Reform, Corporate Tax, Taxes, Federal Budget Deficit, Barack Obama, Corporate America, Corporations, Corporate Tax Rate, President Obama, Financial Crisis, Corporate Tax Reform, Corporate Taxes, Politics News
Robert L. Borosage

We have a debate between the right -- Republicans like Mitt Romney who would cut corporate taxes and ask them to pay less -- and a business-friendly, centrist president who won't call on corporations to pay more. "Fair share?" -- not so much.

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Corporate Tax Rates Effectively Already Below Obama's Proposed Level

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 02.22.2012

Read More: Boeing, Taxes, General Electric, Verizon, Federal Income Tax, Federal Deficit, Wells Fargo, Obama Tax Code, Corporate Tax Rate, Corporate Taxes, Deficit, Income Tax, Video, Federal Budget Deficit, Corporations, Corporate Tax Breaks, Obama Tax Cuts, Corporate Tax Loopholes, Obama Corporate Taxes, Obama Taxes, Business News

President Obama hopes to bring change to a loophole-ridden corporate tax code that allows potential tax dollars to slip through the cracks. In exchang...

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Corporate Tax Reform: Be Careful What You Wish For

Jared Bernstein | Posted 04.23.2012

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Jared Bernstein

Pretty much every discussion of tax reform these days ends with an agreement that we need to broaden the base and lower the rates. Well, the White House today will release the broad outlines of a plan to do just that on the corporate side of the federal tax code.

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White House To Propose Cutting Corporate Tax Rate

AP | By JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Fiscal Affairs, Treasury Department, Corporate Tax Rate, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Timothy Geithner, Newt Gingrich, Gene Sperling, Barack Obama, Business News

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama rolled out a corporate tax overhaul plan Wednesday that lowers rates but also eliminates loopholes and subsidies ...

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Corporate Taxes As Percentage Of Profits Now Lowest In Decades

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 02.03.2012

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As a percentage of ever-growing profits, corporations are paying less in taxes than they have in decades. Thanks in part to federal tax breaks, cor...

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Jillian Berman

OOPS: Romney Wrongly Claims Obama Raised Corporate Tax Rate

HuffingtonPost.com | Jillian Berman | Posted 01.25.2012

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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...

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

Reuters | Posted 03.15.2012

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

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Over Two-Thirds Of Corporations Pay No Federal Corporate Income Tax

Alexander Eichler | Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Boeing, Taxes, General Electric, State Budgets, Verizon, Federal Income Tax, Budget Cuts, Corporate Tax Rate, Wells Fargo, State Income Tax, Corporate Tax, Budget Shortfall, Corporate Taxes, National Deficit, Income Tax, Video, National Debt, Government Layoffs, Nontaxable Businesses, Corporate Tax Breaks, Corporate Tax Loopholes, Business News

At a time when the federal government is starved for cash -- and facing layoffs and cuts in services across the board -- more and more corporations ar...

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CME Group, CBOE Tax Cuts Up For Debate In Springfield

Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Sears, Pat Quinn, Corporate Tax Rate, Illinois Businesses, Illinois Corporate Taxes, Stand Up Chicago, Sears Illinois, Cboe, Sears Leaving Illinois, Corporate Taxes, Illinois Veto Session, CME Group, Corporate Welfare, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Cme Group Leaving Illinois, John Cullerton, Chicago News

A proposal introduced by Illinois Senate President John Cullerton (D) Monday that drastically cuts state income taxes for CME Group and CBOE Holdings ...

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Sam Stein

Jon Huntsman: Palin's Tax Proposal Is A 'Great Political Bromide' That Can't Work

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.04.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman has tried his best to carve out a niche within the Republican primary field as the one candidate who's...

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Pushing on a String?

Charles Kolb | Posted 08.31.2011

Read More: Sovereign Debt, Corporate Tax Rate, Jobs Council, President Obama, Federal Reserve, Credit Default Swaps, Business, Fiscal Policy, Politics News
Charles Kolb

The Obama administration is now out of ammunition: neither monetary nor fiscal policy options are available to stimulate economic growth, reduce unemployment, and encourage consumer spending.

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CHART: America's Descending Marginal Tax Rates

Posted 06.15.2011

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By Catherine Mulbrandon VisualizingEconomics.com (Click picture to enlarge) Green line is the top marginal rate for married couples filing j...

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President Obama Gets It Right: Regulation Hurts Innovation, So Why the Public Backlash?

Gary Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Free Trade Agreements, Small Business, Jobs Creation, Federal Deficit, Economy, Corporate Tax Rate, Executive Order, Gary Shapiro, Health-Care Law's, Regulation, Amy Chua, Innovation, Wall Street Journal, President Obama, Business News
Gary Shapiro

Are we confusing our passion for the free market with our emotion toward the person who occupies the Oval Office? Will President Obama be vilified no matter what he does?

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