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media mention December 19, 2012 Accounting Today: Corporate Tax Avoidance Cost States $42 Billion
(Original Post) Washington, D.C. (December 7, 2011) By Michael Cohn, Accounting Today Sixty-eight of the most consistently profitable Fortune 500 companies paid no state corporate income tax in at least… -
media mention December 19, 2012 The Huffington Post: State Income Tax Avoided By 68 Large Profitable U.S. Companies In Recent Years: Study
(Original Post) Bonnie Kavoussi First Posted: 12/ 7/11 12:16 PM ET Updated: 12/ 7/11 12:16 PM ET Large U.S. corporations are not only figuring out ways to avoid federal income… -
media mention December 19, 2012 The Tennessean: Dollar General, Community Health are tax dodgers, report says
Dollar General Corp. and Community Health Systems are among Fortune 500 companies in Tennessee using loopholes to avoid paying their fair share of state corporate income taxes, according to a… -
media mention December 19, 2012 Nashville Scene: Memphis Multinational Company Skirts Taxes
(Original Post) Posted by Jonathan Meador on Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 12:44 PM Memphis-based International Pulp and Paper paid no state income taxes in 2008 and 2010, according to… -
media mention December 19, 2012 The Cap Times: State firms named in tax avoidance report
(Original Post) MIKE IVEY | The Capital Times | [email protected] | @BizBeatIvey | Posted: Wednesday, December 7, 2011 12:30 pm A new report is out showing — once again —… -
media mention December 19, 2012 NPR: Report Shows Many Profitable Companies Pay No State Income Taxes
(Original Post) by Chris Lehman December 6, 2011 Dozens of Fortune 500 companies paid no net state income taxes over the past three years, including one in the Pacific Northwest.… -
media mention December 19, 2012 Bloomberg: Sixty-Eight U.S. Companies Avoided State Income Tax, Study Finds
(Original Post) By Andrew Zajac – Dec 7, 2011 12:29 AM ET Sixty-eight large U.S. corporations paid no state income tax in at least one of the past three years… -
media mention December 19, 2012 New York Times: Big Firms Limit Paying State Taxes, Study Finds
(Original Post) By MICHAEL COOPERPublished: December 7, 2011 As states have struggled to balance their budgets by cutting services, laying off workers and raising taxes, a study to be released… -
media mention December 19, 2012 Salon: Attack of the deadbeat corporations, Part 2
(Original Post) We already knew U.S. companies weren’t paying enough federal taxes. But the same is also true at the state level By Andrew Leonard Why do those mean people… -
media mention December 19, 2012 Think Progress: Corporate Tax Dodging Has Cost States More Than $42 Billion In Revenue Over The Last Three Years
(Original Post) By Travis Waldron on Dec 7, 2011 at 6:30 pm DuPont would rather sponsor race cars than pay taxes ThinkProgress has documented the repeated tax dodging of large… -
media mention December 19, 2012 The Ledger: Publix Underpays Taxes
(Original Post) By Kyle Kennedy THE LEDGER Published: Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 11:13 p.m.Last Modified: Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 11:13 p.m. LAKELAND | A report says Publix Super… -
media mention December 19, 2012 KWGS News: Big Corporations Avoiding Taxes
(2011-12-07) OKLAHOMA CITY, OK (kwgs) – A comprehensive new study finds that many consistently profitable companies are paying little to no corporate income taxes on those profits. Out of 265… -
media mention December 19, 2012 WFPL: Yum Brands Avoided State Taxes Despite Record Profits
A comprehensive study on corporate tax avoidance finds that Louisville-based Yum Brands paid no net corporate income taxes to states over the past three years despite colossal profits over $1… -
media mention December 19, 2012 The Salt Lake Tribune: Some say corporate tax-dodging hurts public schools
(Original Post) By Cathy Mckitrick The Salt Lake Tribune A new study takes aim at tax-dodging corporations, revealing that between 2008 and 2010, 68 Fortune 500 companies managed to avoid… -
media mention December 19, 2012 Lexington Herald Leader: Yum Brands avoided paying state income taxes despite large profits
(Original Post) By Linda B. Blackford — [email protected] Posted: 12:00am on Dec 8, 2011; Modified: 6:27am on Dec 8, 2011 The Louisville-based parent of such companies as Kentucky Fried Chicken… -
media mention December 19, 2012 San Francisco Chronicle: Government gets blamed for widening wealth gap
(Original Post) Marisa Lagos, Chronicle Staff Writer Thursday, December 8, 2011 The state and federal governments are largely responsible for the widening gap between the rich and poor in the… -
media mention December 19, 2012 The Boston Globe: Big corporations avoid state taxes, study says
(Original Post) By Beth Healy | Globe Staff December 08, 2011 Sixty-eight out of 265 Fortune 500 companies across the country paid no state corporate income taxes in at… -
media mention December 19, 2012 ABC-7 San Francisco: Profitable corporations paying minimal taxes
(Original Post) Thursday, December 08, 2011 Nannette Miranda SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KGO) — As the battle rages in California over increasing taxes or cutting state spending, a new report on corporate… -
media mention December 19, 2012 Portland Business Journal: Intel, OCPP differ over tax report
(Original Post) Date: Thursday, December 8, 2011, 2:39pm PST – Last Modified: Friday, December 9, 2011, 6:44am PST Andy Giegerich Business Journal staff writer – Portland Business Journal Intel Corp. … -
media mention December 19, 2012 Baton Rouge Business Report: Corporate profits often escape state income taxe
(Original Post) Many large U.S. corporations paid little or no state income taxes from 2008 to 2010, according to a new report by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.… -
media mention December 19, 2012 Maryland Reporter: Study Finds Some Corporations Paid No State Income Taxes
Posted December 8, 2011 By Len Lazarick MarylandReporter.com A new study finds that at least 68 profitable corporations paid no state income taxes anywhere in the country in one of… -
media mention December 19, 2012 The Epoch Times: Many Large Firms Paid No State Taxes, Report Says
(Original Post) By Alex JohnstonEpoch Times Staff Created: December 8, 2011 Last Updated: December 8, 2011 A report released on Wednesday found that 68 large companies in the United States… -
media mention December 19, 2012 The Courier-Journal: Study names Yum! Brands among companies “dodging” state taxes
(Original Post) Posted on December 9, 2011 by Chris Otts A new report names Louisville-based Yum! Brands as one of 68 Fortune 500 companies that paid no state corporate income… -
media mention December 19, 2012 Salt Lake Tribune: Corporate tax-dodging hurts state tax revenue
(Original Post) By Cathy Mckitrick The Salt Lake TribuneFirst published Dec 08 2011 07:33AMUpdated Dec 9, 2011 11:33PM A new study takes aim at tax-dodging corporations, some with operations in… -
media mention December 19, 2012 Maryland Gazette: Corporations hit for ‘tax dodging’
Friday, December 09, 2011 Study says havens used to avoid paying the states on income by C. Benjamin Ford, Staff Writer Corporations may legally be people, but they’re people who…