Corporate Tax Rates

Luke Johnson

Corporations Reap Benefits Of Lobbying

HuffingtonPost.com | Luke Johnson | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Taxes, Corporate Tax Rates, Video, Sunlight Foundation, Lobbying, Corporations, Tax Day, Tax Day 2012, Corporate Taxes, Corporations Lobbying, Politics News

The top eight companies that spent the most on federal lobbying from 2007 to 2009 all saw their reported tax rates decrease from 2007 to 2010, accordi...

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The Facts About U.S. Corporate Taxes

Robert McIntyre | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Corporate Tax Rates, Tax Reform, u.s. Corporate Tax Rates, Corporate Taxes, Tax Loopholes, Politics News
Robert McIntyre

You might have heard how the U.S. has just become "number one" in corporate taxation. But it's the highest on paper only. In practice, the true U.S. corporate tax rate is barely half of the 35 percent nominal rate.

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The Corporations That Make Money Off Taxes

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Taxes, Boeing, General Electric, Fortune 500, Think Progress, Verizon, Corporate Profits, Tax Rates, Corporate Taxes, Tax Subsidies, Citizens for Tax Justice, Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, Corporate Tax Cuts, Corporate Tax Rates, Corporations, Corporate Tax Loopholes, Corporate Tax Revenue, Business News

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...

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How Obama's Tax Plan Could Actually Add Loopholes

AP | By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER and PAUL WISEMAN | Posted 04.24.2012

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama wants to close dozens of loopholes that let some companies pay little or nothing in taxes. But he also wants to o...

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Corporate Tax Reform: Be Careful What You Wish For

Jared Bernstein | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: 28 Percent Tax, Corporate Tax Reform, Corporate Tax Rates, Tax Reform Obama, White House Tax Reform, Obama Tax Reform, Obama Corporate Tax Reform, Corporate Tax Rate, Business News
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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Call the Republicans' Bluff on Jobs

Paul Abrams | Posted 11.07.2011

Read More: Repatriation, Corporate Tax Rates, Republican Proposals, Regulations, Jobs, Politics News
Paul Abrams

There was virtually no job creation from the last profit repatriation and fewer jobs created under the Bush Administration's tax cuts for the wealthy and laissez faire regulatory policies than over any comparable post-World War II period.

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Illinois CEO Warns He May Leave State In Response To Corporate Tax Hikes

The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 05.28.2011

Read More: Corporate Tax Rates, State Deficits, State Budgets, Caterpillar Inc, State Debt, Pat Quinn, Financial Crisis, Doug Oberhelman, Illinois, Corporate Taxes, Business News

Across the midwest, public workers have protested proposed cuts to benefits, pay, and collective bargaining rights. But in Illinois, one chief executi...

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Jason Linkins

Pawlenty's Pretty Sure Bank Of America's Taxes Are Too Damn High

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Corporate Tax Rates, 2012 Speculation, Carly Fiorina, Bank of America, 2012 Election, 2012 Speculatron, Tim Pawlenty, Innumeracy, John McCain, 2012, Video, Politics News

Corporate tax rates! I still have fond memories of the 2008 campaign, where Senator John McCain and his sometime-surrogate business super-genius Car...

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Corporate Tax Revenues Are At Historic Lows, Report Says

The Huffington Post | Maxwell Strachan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marginal Tax Rate, Corporate Tax Rates, Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, Chuck Marr, Corporations, Office of Management and Budget, Cbpp, Business News

Even as the federal deficit has ballooned, U.S. corporations are paying lower tax bills than ever before, according to one measure. That's the take...

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Will Business Kill Tax Reform?

Joseph J. Thorndike | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Deficit, Competitiveness, Corporations, Taxes, Corporate-Income-Tax, Tax Cuts, Loopholes, State of the Union, Corporate-Tax-Rates, Corporate Tax, Business News
Joseph J. Thorndike

Corporations like to complain about their taxes. In testimony, statements, and speeches, executives rehearse the same old litany of woe -- and there's a kernel of truth in these complaints.

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8 Surprising Facts About The Shrinking Middle Class

Huffington Post | Hallie Seegal | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreclosure Crisis, Finanicial Services Sector, Third World America, Health Care Costs, Income Inequality, Corporate Tax, Middle Class, Arianna Huffington, Corporate Tax Rates, Infrastructure, State Budget Cuts, Public Education, Slidepollajax, Business News

The American dream may in fact be slipping away. The white picket fence, Social Security, sending your children to college -- what was once an attaina...

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