Corporate Taxes

Are You Ready for Taxmaggedon?

Martin Sullivan | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Taxes, Corporate Taxes, Bush Tax Cuts, Automatic Spending Cuts, Payroll Tax Cut, Taxmageddon, Expiring Tax Cuts, 2013 Budget, Politics News

A combination of spending cuts and tax increases could bring the economy to its knees at the end of 2012.

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CME Group's Biggest Victim: What the Merc's Tax Breaks Are Doing to the State Budget, and Why It Matters

Elizabeth Parisian | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Cme Group Tax Break, CME Group Inc, Cme-Group-Leaving-Illinois, Corporate Tax Breaks, Cme Group Leaving Illinois, Corporate Taxes, Illinois Businesses, CME Group, Chicago News

The Great Recession caused the largest collapse in state revenues on record -- which resulted in record cuts to state budgets and new depths of pain for struggling families.

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In Corpore Sano?

Evan Soltas | Posted 05.15.2012

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

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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When the 1 Percent Fails to Contribute Its Fair Share, Veterans Pay Dearly

Jon Soltz | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Afghanistan Veterans, General Electric, Bank of America, Tax Loopholes, JPMorgan Chase, Iraq Veterans, Corporate Tax Breaks, Veterans Unemployment, Corporate Taxes, Income Inequality, Veterans, Politics News

Veterans have served our country at considerable sacrifice. We work hard and play by the rules. But, as it turns out, big corporations aren't playing by the same rules, and our communities are paying for it.

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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

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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Apple Sidesteps Taxes -- What's Wrong With That?

Christopher Bergin | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: State Taxes, Tax Fairness, Tax Reform, Corporate Taxes, Apple, Apple Taxes, Apple Tax Evasion, Technology News

We are currently having a debate in this country about fairness and our tax systems. That's a good debate to have. But insinuating that someone who pays a lower effective tax rate than you is somehow doing something unfair to you does not help the debate.

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Apple's Attack on the Knowledge Economy

Christopher Newfield | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Apple, Knowledge Economy, Public Universities, Middle Class, Innovation, Corporate Taxes, De Anza College, Tax Cuts. Community College, Tax Avoidance, Community Colleges, Business News

Cuts to places like De Anza destroy mass access to a knowledge economy that is led by Apple. Corporate tax avoidance has for decades been a major mechanism of crumbling the social bridging performed by higher ed.

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Democrats Unveil New Tax Target

AP | ALAN FRAM | Posted 04.24.2012

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WASHINGTON — First it was people earning at least $1 million a year. Now Democrats seeking their next election-year target for tax increases on ...

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Breakfast With the One Percent

Sarita Gupta | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Occupy Wall Street, Sallie Mae Student Loans, GE Taxes, Verizon Lay Offs, Corporate Taxes, Tax Dodging Corporations, Corporations Taxes, Verizon Taxes, Business News

We are calling on tax-dodging and highly-subsidized corporations to pay their fair share in taxes, to create good jobs in our communities, to reset the housing market and restore our economy, and to keep corporate money out of our democracy.

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The World's Richest Company Pays a Lower Tax Rate Than You Do

Preeti Vissa | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Google, Taxes, Tax Shelters, Apple, Corporate Taxes, Tech News, Buffett Rule, Federal Income Tax Rate, Business News

That's more than the gross domestic product of Saudi Arabia, the world's richest oil economy, not to mention a bunch of other countries. And Apple paid a lower federal income tax rate last year than the average California schoolteacher.

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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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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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Tax Dodging Jeopardizes Society at Home and Abroad

Heather A. Lowe | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Tax Day, Corporate Tax Evasion, Apple Tax Evasion, Corporate Tax Loopholes, Tax Evasion, Corporate Taxes, Tax Dodging, International Tax Havens, Tax Havens, Politics News

American corporations make use of offshore tax havens and creative accounting techniques to legally avoid paying taxes in the United States, while still racking up record profits. The seriousness of the problem cannot be overstated.

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The Rich Are Different From You and Me -- They Pay Lower Taxes

Bill Moyers | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Corporate Taxes, Stephen Schwarzman, Taxes, Income Tax, Tax Day, Politics News

Corporate taxes today are at a 40-year-low -- even as the executive suites at big corporations have become throne rooms where the crown jewels wind up in the personal vault of the CEO.

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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

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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Last Week, Miami Prayed -- This Week, Carnival Cruiselines Has Got to Pay

Rev. Dr. R. Joaquin Willis | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Taxes, Miami Business, Micky Arison, Corporate Taxes, Carnival Cruise Lines, Income Inequality, Miami Impact, Miami Politics, Miami News

Carnival Cruise Lines, who made over $11 billion in profits in the last five years, paid just 1% of their profits in taxes. This while one of the largest public hospitals in the South East is laying off thousand of employees.

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Do You Really Think Your Vote Counts?

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Ted Stevens, Corporate America, Small Business, President Obama, America, Bailout, Corporate Taxes, American Small Business League, Bank Industry, Military-Industrial Complex, President Eisenhower, Senate, Oil Company Taxes, Government Corruption, Small Business News

Today, it doesn't really matter who the President is or who is in Congress because big corporations run our government.

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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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A Grown-Up Conversation About the Corporate Tax

Martin Sullivan | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Corporate Tax Reform, Corporate Taxes, Vat, Value Added Tax, Politics News

Higher corporate taxes do not reduce corporate capital formation. They shift it abroad. The result is domestic job losses and lower domestic wages.

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We Should Raise Corporate Taxes (Not Lower Them)

Harlan Green | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Taxes, Corporate Profits, Corporate Taxes, Income Inequality, Professor James Livingston, Corporate Greed, Warren Buffett, Business News

Raising corporate taxes -- or closing all the loopholes -- is a first step if we want to create a sustainable recovery, rather than more busted bubbles.

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CEOs Embrace Tax Hike Plans Rejected By Paul Ryan

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 03.08.2012

WASHINGTON -- A powerful coalition of corporate executives on Wednesday praised a deficit reduction plan that has long been maligned by GOP leaders fo...

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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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In The Public Interest : Could Obama's Business Tax Reform Realize Its Potential?

Phineas Baxandall | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Taxes, Lobbying, Tax Loopholes, Obama, Offshore Tax Havens, Tax Reform, Tax Havens, Business Taxes, Obama Tax Reform Plan, Obama Corporate Tax Plan, Corporate Taxes, Politics News

The much anticipated corporate tax reform framework released last week by President Obama hit the right notes but lacked the details to know if it can fully realize it's potential.

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General Electric Paid A Tiny, Tiny Tax Rate This Decade

HuffingtonPost.com | Alexander Eichler | Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: Boeing, General Electric, Verizon, Video, General Electric Lobbyists, General Electric Taxes, Lobbyists, Wells Fargo, Corporate Tax Rate, GE Taxes, Corporate Tax Breaks, Corporate Taxes, Corporate Tax Loopholes, Barack Obama, Dupont, Ge, Business News

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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