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Corporate Tax Rate

Report: Apple Is Paying Almost No Taxes On Its Billions Stashed Offshore

Posted 05.20.2013 | Business

Just one day before Apple's CEO Tim Cook is expected to argue for corporate tax reform on Capitol Hill, a new report claims that the company is avoidi...

Michael Moore: 'The Real Problem With The IRS' Is GE

Posted 05.20.2013 | Business

Americans are focusing on the wrong IRS scandal, according to Michael Moore. During an appearance on ā€œReal Time With Bill Maherā€ earlier this ...

Winning Customers Around the World Begins at Home With Tax Reform

Claire Buchan Parker | Posted 05.03.2013 | Business
Claire Buchan Parker

It's been more than a half-century since the U.S. undertook a bottom-up review of our international tax laws. In fact, they haven't been updated since 1963, when the U.S. accounted for 50 percent of the global economy and did not have any serious competition from other nations.

Retail Group Backed By Apple, Nike Pushes Lawmakers For Tax Breaks

The Huffington Post | Jillian Berman | Posted 04.09.2013 | Business

Walmart, Apple, J.Crew and scores of other famous retailers are members of a group pushing for changes in the corporate tax code that would benefit co...

Mark Gongloff

Companies That Pay Little In Taxes Whine For Lower Rates

HuffingtonPost.com | Mark Gongloff | Posted 04.01.2013 | Business

America's corporate giants didn't get where they are by sitting back and accepting the status quo, people, which is why paying next to nothing in taxe...

Jack Lew: Lowering Corporate Tax Rate A 'Challenge'

Reuters | Posted 04.15.2013 | Business

WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Jack Lew, Obama's Treasury secretary nominee, said on Wednesday that it would be challenging to lower the corporate t...

CEOs' Least Favorite Tax Breaks

Reuters | Posted 01.16.2013 | Business

WASHINGTON, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Business executives in a survey released this week named three corporate tax breaks they would be willing to live wit...

Joe Is for Jobs -- My Economic Blueprint for South Florida

Joe Garcia | Posted 12.24.2012 | Miami
Joe Garcia

I love our community and am unapologetically optimistic about its future, but we cannot meet our most pressing challenges if we are constantly distracted by scandals and the pettiness of our politics.

15 Companies Paying Less In Taxes Than Romney

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 09.11.2012 | Business

It turns out Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's effective tax rate isn’t so low if you consider the rates many American corporations pay....

The 10 Most Profitable U.S. Corporations Pay A Tiny, Tiny Tax Rate

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 08.06.2012 | Business

While some of America's biggest corporations may complain that they pay too much in taxes, a recent analysis shows that many are actually getting off ...

The U.S. Is Number One, But Maybe Not Where You'd Think

Posted 07.31.2012 | Politics

Tuesday's "Fact of the Day" runs down some stats on the U.S. federal corporate income tax rate, the highest in the world. Face the Facts USA is...

In Corpore Sano?

Evan Soltas | Posted 07.15.2012 | Business
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.

Corporate Tax Rate and a Busy Lame Duck Session

Ted Kaufman | Posted 07.07.2012 | Politics
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.

Alexander Eichler

Apple Pays Shockingly Low Corporate Tax Rate

HuffingtonPost.com | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.17.2012 | Business

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...

Time for a 99 Percent Tax Revolt

Elizabeth Parisian | Posted 06.16.2012 | Chicago
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.

Top 10 Dirty Corporate Tax Dodgers of 2011

Rebecca Tarbotton | Posted 06.09.2012 | Green
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.

Americans Say Others Not Paying Fair Share Of Taxes

The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 04.05.2012 | Business

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. ...

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

Reuters | Posted 05.30.2012 | Business

* 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 ...

Corporate Tax Rate Hits Ten-Year Low

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 03.05.2012 | Business

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

Alexander Eichler

General Electric Paid A Tiny, Tiny Tax Rate This Decade

HuffingtonPost.com | Alexander Eichler | Posted 03.18.2013 | Business

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...

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

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 04.24.2012 | Politics
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.

Corporate Tax Rates Effectively Already Below Obama's Proposed Level

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 02.22.2012 | Business

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...

Corporate Tax Reform: Be Careful What You Wish For

Jared Bernstein | Posted 04.23.2012 | Business
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.

White House To Propose Cutting Corporate Tax Rate

AP | By JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 04.22.2012 | Business

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

Corporate Taxes As Percentage Of Profits Now Lowest In Decades

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 02.03.2012 | Business

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...