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International Business Times: 26 Big US Companies Paid No Federal Income Tax From 2008 To 2011
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) By Ashley Portero: April 11, 2012 11:20 AM EDT Twenty-six companies in the Fortune 500 paid no U.S. federal income over a four-year period, often through a corporate tax break that’s expected to cost the Treasury $37 billion in revenue between 2010 and 2014, according to a new corporate tax analysis from Citizens […]
ABC News: Report: 26 U.S. Companies Not Paying Federal Income Tax
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) By SUSANNA KIM (@skimm)April 11, 2012 In November, the liberal lobbying group Citizens for Tax Justice stirred controversy with a report highlighting 280 so-called corporate tax-dodgers, highlighting companies they said were paying under the 35 percent federal income corporate tax rate. This week, the group revised its list with new data and said […]
Huffington Post: The Facts About U.S. Corporate Taxes
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) You might have heard how the U.S. has just become “number one” in corporate taxation. The campaign to make this event news was led by the Business Roundtable, an association of CEOs that advocates for a lower corporate rate and a more “competitive” tax system. They cleverly used the day that Japan lowered […]
Newsday: New York should pass its Dream Act
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) Published: April 11, 2012 6:13 PMBy CARL HAYDEN Carl Hayden is former Regents chancellor and former chairman of the SUNY Board of Trustees. Undocumented young people are everywhere in our public schools. They pay tuition at our colleges and universities. Despite a persistent misperception, they and their parents pay taxes. Still, they are […]
John Hopkins News-Letter: Illegal immigration is not the problem
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) By NIKKO PRICE Published: Saturday, April 14, 2012 Updated: Friday, April 13, 2012 21:04 This week, the Christian Science Monitor reported that illegal immigration in the United States has hit a net zero for the first time in 50 years. The population of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. has fallen from 12 million […]
Greenwich Times: ‘Buffet Rule’ would hit Connecticut hard
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) Charles J. LewisPublished 06:18 p.m., Saturday, April 14, 2012 WASHINGTON — Many well-heeled Connecticut taxpayers are likely to pay close attention to how the state’s two senators vote Monday when the U.S. Senate considers the “Buffet Rule,” President Barack Obama’s bid to raise taxes on millionaires. Senators will take up legislation, dubbed the […]
Wall Street Journal: Taxes–Who Really Is Paying Up
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) Updated April 15, 2012, 12:08 a.m. ET By ANDREA COOMBES Do you pay your fair share in taxes? Even as President Barack Obama pitches the “Buffett rule” to ensure that millionaires pay at least a 30% tax rate, some commentators are decrying the fact that about half of U.S. taxpayers don’t pay any […]
Great Falls Tribune: Montana lawmakers split with Buffett Rule coming to head
December 17, 2012
5:11 AM, Apr. 15, 2012 | WASHINGTON — Should millionaires be required to pay higher taxes? Montana’s U.S. lawmakers are split over the issue, which is expected to be front and center in Washington, D.C., this week. At issue is a concept pushed by President Barack Obama and other Democrats, called the Buffett Rule. Named […]
The Birmingham News: Funding for Alabama’s Northern Beltline uncertain
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) Published: Sunday, April 15, 2012, 9:00 AM Updated: Sunday, April 15, 2012, 4:56 PM By Thomas Spencer As the Alabama Department of Transportation prepares to embark on one of the most ambitious interstate building projects in the nation — the 52-mile, $4.7 billion Northern Beltline — both the state and the federal government […]
The Huffington Post: Time for a 99 Percent Tax Revolt
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) Elizabeth ParisianPolicy analyst, Stand Up! Chicago With Tax Day tomorrow, it seems like the subject of taxes — tax policy, tax fairness, tax reform — is on everyone’s minds. On Tuesday, President Obama gave a speech in Florida in support of the Buffet Rule, in what is likely a move to make tax […]
Market Watch: Taxes: Are you paying your fair share?
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) By Andrea Coombes, MarketWatch SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Do you pay your fair share in taxes? Even as President Barack Obama pitches the “Buffett rule” to ensure that millionaires pay at least a 30% tax rate, some commentators are decrying the fact that about half of U.S. taxpayers don’t pay any federal income […]
Connecticut News Junkie: Taxes Build Our State and Nation
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) by Wade Gibson | Apr 16, 2012 9:55am For Easter, my friend and I traveled from Connecticut to visit family down in Texas, a distance of nearly 2,000 miles. Two centuries ago, our journey would have taken months by land; a sailboat would have hastened our trip, although we would have feared pirates […]
The Huffington Post: Corporations That Spent The Most On Lobbying Saw Tax Rates Decline
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) Luke JohnsonPosted: 04/17/2012 8:09 am Updated: 04/17/2012 8:09 am 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, according to a new analysis released Monday by the Sunlight Foundation. The report notes that these top eight […]
The Tennessean: Activists hold bake sale to make point about Tennessee taxes
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) Posted on April 17, 2012 by Chas Sisk Tennesseans for Fair Taxation, a group that advocates a state income tax, never seems to give up. The legislature may be no mood to consider an income tax (video), but TFT was outside Legislative Plaza today with a ploy to win them over. Members of […]
The Progressive Pulse: On Tax Day, demonstrators seek tax equality for the 99%
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) Post on April 17, 2012 by Clayton HenkelAs last-minute tax filers scramble to get their taxes in by Tuesday’s midnight deadline, demonstrators gathered outside the Bank of America branch in Raleigh’s Cameron Village to protest corporate tax avoidance. The NC AFL-CIO, MoveOn.org, and other community activists believe that Tax Day is a reminder […]
The Huffington Post: Breakfast With the One Percent
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) 04/18/2012 6:35 pmSarita Gupta is the Executive Director of National Jobs with Justice. 6:00 a.m. — A Verizon cell phone, which doubles as your alarm clock, goes off. You silence the alarm and find a text reminder that your bill is due. It’s Verizon that needs a reminder to pay its fair share. […]
Courier News: MoveOn protests tax inequity
December 17, 2012
6:20 AM, Apr. 18, 2012 Written by Bob Makin Staff Writer CENTRAL JERSEY — Nearly two dozen MoveOn members participated in the organization’s Tax the 1% National Day of Action at a bank in New Brunswick and at post offices in Flemington and Mendham on Tuesday. Regional organizer Mary Stevens said the protests in front […]
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: A sorry story of transit and taxes: State legislators support the wealthy over the many who need mass transit
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) April 18, 2012 12:00 am By Natalia Rudiak We are the wealthiest nation in the world. So why are we struggling to maintain basic public services? It seems that Allegheny County’s transit system is in crisis every year, but this year the crisis looks potentially terminal: Without adequate funding from our state government, […]
South End Patch: Massive Tax Day Rally Envelops Financial District
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) Hundreds of concerned citizens took to the streets of the Financial District Tuesday to protest “tax-dodging” corporations. By Andrew Jeromski A Massive group of protesters took to the streets of Boston’s Financial District late yesterday afternoon to demand major corporations and the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans pay their fare share of […]
The Wichita Eagle: League of Women Voters speaks out against Kansas income tax plans
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) By BRENT D. WISTROMEagle Topeka bureau Published Saturday, April 21, 2012, at 5:33 p.m. TOPEKA — The League of Women Voters of Kansas, usually noted for their opposition to laws they feel create barriers to voting, stepped out late last week against the two income tax reduction bills being debated by House and […]
Press TV: No fair share for war taxes
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) Sun Apr 22, 2012 3:29PM GMT Frida Berrigan, Waging Nonviolence I am big fan of the post office in general and of my local post office in particular. I go there as often as I can (honestly, I do). But, when I needed stamps on Monday, I was not prepared for the line […]
St. Louis Post Dispatch: Missouri can’t afford to leave $400 million on the table
December 17, 2012
Monday, April 23, 2012 | 10:21 a.m. CDT BY St. Louis Post-Dispatch Forty-four of the 50 states in the nation don’t allow it. Missouri does, and in 2011, the practice denied state agencies nearly $400 million that Missourians desperately needed for health care, education, infrastructure and other essential services in every part of the state. […]
Business Week: A Tax Windfall From the Housing Bust
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) By Amanda J. Crawford on April 26, 2012 As Karen Jacobs, an economist in Arizona’s Department of Revenue, was reviewing income tax data for 2010, she came across a puzzling trend: Refunds were down and tax liability was up even though the state’s unemployment rate peaked that year, at 10.8 percent. “My first […]
Fairfield County Business Journal: Corporations dodge taxes, hand small biz the bill
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) by Janice Kirkel The amount the average American small business had to pay in 2011 to cover the cost of corporate abuse of tax havens was $2,116.The amount an individual tax filer had to pay was $426. Both are the findings of a report by U.S. PIRG, the federation of state public interest […]
Casper Star-Tribune: Wyoming ranks high again for economic growth
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) By JOAN BARRON Star-Tribune capital bureau | Posted: Sunday, April 29, 2012 10:00 am CHEYENNE — Wyoming again ranks fourth among states for best economic growth and outlook, largely because of the state’s low total tax burden, according to a nonprofit group’s report. The American Legislative Exchange Council ranked Wyoming fourth for the […]
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