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Oregonian: TAXING THE RICH It’s not class warfare, it’s just common sense
December 21, 2012
(Original Post) The Sunday Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) September 20, 2009 SundaySunrise Edition TAXING THE RICH It’s not class warfare, it’s just common sense NEAL PEIRCE In a dramatic break from tax trends of recent decades, eight states have voted this year to push up the percentages of income that their wealthiest citizens must pay. Connecticut […]
New Haven Advocate: Connecticut Can Still Raise Taxes on the Rich, Even if Washington Doesn’t
December 21, 2012
Original Post By Mark EnglerMay 24, 2011 In 2009, when then-New York Gov. David Paterson signed a temporary tax increase on the state’s wealthiest individuals — one of the so-called “millionaire’s taxes” that have passed in recent years in select states across the country — at least one multimillionaire was not happy. Rush Limbaugh proclaimed […]
USA Today: Critics say states should discontinue tax holidays
December 21, 2012
Original Post August 6, 2011 by Jayne O’Donnell The back-to-school sales tax holidays that start Friday in many states may be popular with politicians and retailers, but critics say revenue-starved states should abandon them. Seventeen states plan to give shoppers a break on sales taxes for school-related purchases this season. Massachusetts and Arkansas added a […]
Chicago Sun Times: Cash-strapped Illinois rejects back-to-school tax holiday
December 21, 2012
August 7, 2011 Gannett news service Unlike last year, there will be no “back-to-school” sales tax holiday in Illinois this year. State Sen. Toi Hutchinson (D-Chicago), who was chief sponsor of the state’s holiday last year, says Illinois “just cannot afford it this year.” New York was the first state to enact a back-to-school sales […]
Christian Science Monitor: Jon Huntsman vs. Rick Perry: Shoot-out at the GOP corral
December 21, 2012
Original Post August 21, 2011 by Brad Knickerbocker Jon Huntsman and Rick Perry represent very different views of how a Republican can beat Barack Obama in 2012. To jazz up his campaign, Huntsman laid into tea party favorite Perry Sunday. In the end, whoever wins the GOP presidential nominating contest will have to take on […]
Los Angeles Times: An undeserved attack on the ‘undeserving poor’
December 21, 2012
Original Post August 31, 2011 by Michael HiltzikCriticism of low earners who pay no federal income tax is in fact a not-so-veiled assault on government aid for those in need. Amid the crowd-rousing shorthand employed by some American politicians, surely one of the hardiest chestnuts is the notion of the “undeserving poor.” You know the […]
Chicago Tribune: Chicago-area companies among those that pay $0 in income tax: Study
December 21, 2012
Integrys, Baxter, Navistar and Boeing included on list 5:05 p.m. CDT, November 3, 2011 The corporate tax rate is 35 percent, but an examination of 280 of the nation’s largest corporations suggests that many aren’t paying anything close to that. The real tax rate paid by a slew of major corporations averages closer to 18.5 […]
CNN Money: Many companies pay no income taxes, study finds
December 21, 2012
(Original Post) By Charles Riley @CNNMoney November 3, 2011: 3:10 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The corporate tax rate is 35%. But an examination of 280 of the nation’s largest corporations suggests that many aren’t paying anything close to that. The real tax rate paid by a slew of major corporations averages closer to […]
Bloomberg/BNA: Tax Reform Likely in 15 State Legislatures in 2013, Think Tank Says
December 20, 2012
December 20,2102 The major shifts in partisan control due to the November elections, which resulted in 37 states having unified one-party control over the Legislature and governorship, are likely to bring state tax reform to the forefront in 2013, Matthew Gardner, executive director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), said Dec. 19. […]
Concord Monitor: No tax holiday for profits held offshore
December 19, 2012
(Original Post) By Monitor staffNovember 4, 2011 The driving force behind the Occupy Wall Street protests that have cropped up across the nation is the participants’ belief that the game is rigged. Corporations and wealthy political campaign donors concoct the rules and a Congress more concerned with reelection than governing makes them the law of […]
Daily News and Analysis: 30 corporate giants paid no US taxes in 3 years: Report
December 19, 2012
(Original Post) Published: Friday, Nov 4, 2011, 15:52 ISTPlace: NEW YORK | Agency: IANS Thirty of the 280 most profitable US corporations, including General Electric, Verizon and Boeing, paid no federal income tax in 2008-10, Citizens for Tax Justice (CTJ) said in a report released Thursday. Together, those 30 companies enjoyed pre-tax profits of $160 […]
AllGov: 30 Major Companies Paid No Federal Taxes Last 3 Years
December 19, 2012
(Original Post) Friday, November 04, 2011 According to the U.S. tax code, corporations pay a 35% tax rate on their earnings. But at least 30 of them paid zero federal income over the last three years, while hundreds of other companies paid half the official corporate rate. The findings, produced in a new report from Citizens […]
MSNBC.com: 30 companies paid ‘less than zero’ taxes in recent years
December 19, 2012
(Original Post) By Marisa Taylor (This story has been updated to include a response from General Electric.) General Electric made big waves earlier in the year when The New York Times reported that the company paid no taxes in the U.S. in 2010, and in fact claimed a tax benefit of $3.2 billion. How could […]
Cincinnati CityBeat: Here’s Why the ’99 Percent’ Are Pissed
December 19, 2012
(Original Post) By Kevin Osborne · November 9th, 2011 · Porkopolis Even the most ardent political junkie probably missed the news amid all the other reports last week about Ohio Issue 2, Cincinnati Issue 48, the looming City Council elections and the drama over the Occupy protests being busted up across the nation. While the […]
Forbes: American Families Are Bearing the Tax Burden
December 19, 2012
(Original Post) Jessica Bosari, Contributor Anyone with access to a news broadcast can see the middle class is suffering from bearing the brunt of the tax burden. In an ideal situation, people and business would pay taxes proportional to their earnings and tax bracket. The scales however, are not balanced in the country’s tax practices. […]
Newsday: Cyber Monday is bad biz for states
December 19, 2012
(Original Post) Originally published: November 25, 2011 3:41 PM Updated: November 28, 2011 12:01 AM By MATTHEW GARDNER Matthew Gardner is executive director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization in Washington. With the holiday season now in full swing, why are so many Main Street retailers down in […]
Plain Dealer: Politifact- Sen. Rob Portman says the U.S. has the second highest corporate tax rate
December 19, 2012
(Original Post) “We have the second highest corporate tax rate among our trading partners.” Rob Portman on Friday, November 11th, 2011 in a Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction hearing Tax reform was an issue addressed by the Joint Select Deficit Reduction Committee, aka the supercommittee, in its failed quest to reduce the federal budget […]
The Cap Times: State firms named in tax avoidance report
December 19, 2012
(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 — that the largest and most profitable U.S. corporations manage to skirt paying state and local income taxes. The Washington-based Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy […]
New York Times: Big Firms Limit Paying State Taxes, Study Finds
December 19, 2012
(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 on Wednesday suggests that many profitable Fortune 500 companies have not been paying as much in state corporate income taxes as the average levied on […]
Think Progress: Corporate Tax Dodging Has Cost States More Than $42 Billion In Revenue Over The Last Three Years
December 19, 2012
(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 corporations, some of which, like GE, have gone entire years without paying taxes despite hauling in massive profits. Now, that phenomenon has spread to the […]
The Courier-Journal: Study names Yum! Brands among companies “dodging” state taxes
December 19, 2012
(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 taxes in at least one year between 2008-2010, despite earning profits for shareholders. The report doesn’t say that Yum! has been shorting the state of […]
WNYC: ‘The Capitol Pressroom’ with Susan Arbetter
December 19, 2012
(Original Post) December 19, 2011 | 10:25 AM | By Colby Hamilton Today on “The Capitol Pressroom”: The North Country was a big winner in the economic development grant competition. While the 16 projects that won the $103.2 million dollars are posted on-line, we wanted to know how these projects will leverage growth throughout the […]
NYS Tax Reform and Fairness Commission: Promises Made But Not Yet Kept
December 17, 2012
The Governor has called for the creation of a Tax Reform and Fairness Commission to develop recommendations on how we might modify our current tax structure so that is fair to all New Yew Yorkers. The current tax system in the State of New York tends to put more of the state and local tax […]
ABC News: State of the Union: Fact Checking the President
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) By ABC News | ABC News ABC News’ Huma Khan, Elizabeth Hartfield, Matt Negrin, Chris Good, Amy Bingham, Jeunee Simon, Greg Krieg, Meg Fowler and Sarah Parnass report:Fact or Fiction Number 1 – The Booming Economy: Obama’s Jobs Story Did the economy crater before President Obama’s inauguration, then rebound once his policies took […]
Outcome Magazine: U.S. tax loopholes allow some highly profitable companies to skate
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) February 22, 2012 By ANTHONY HALL The U.S. corporate tax code just became the biggest sidebar under jobs for the national election campaign. It should be clear to one and all that large corporations have not begun to participate in hiring to any significant degree and are, in fact, far short of getting […]
