Groundwork Collaborative: Tax Giveaways for Gouging: How the Trump Tax Law Fueled Corporate Profiteering

We find that since Trump’s first tax giveaway, these companies have raked in nearly $500 billion in profits and enriched their shareholders by $463 billion while paying just $140 billion in federal income taxes. Compared to the two years before the TCJA was passed, these companies’ profits have more than doubled while their effective tax rates fell by 39 percent.

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