State Corporate Taxes
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State Corporate Income Taxes 2001-2003
• By ITEP Staff
Last September, Citizens for Tax Justice and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy published Corporate Income Taxes in the Bush Years, an in-depth look at the taxes that 275 large, profitable corporations paid, or failed to pay, on their U.S. profits over the 2001-03 period. That study found that by 2003, these corporations were […]
State Corporate Tax Disclosure: Why It’s Needed
• By ITEP Staff
Corporate income taxes are in decline. Corporate tax revenues represent a smaller piece of the federal and state tax pie than at almost any time since World War II. While it is possible to diagnose some of the reasons for this decline on the federal level, very little public information is available to help policymakers evaluate the health of the corporate taxes collected by state governments. For this reason, some policymakers have called for better…
ITEP’s state corporate tax work examines the tax-paying habits of Fortune 500 corporations and corporate contributions to state revenue. It occasionally releases a comprehensive state corporate tax study as a companion to its national report on federal taxes paid (or not paid) by profitable corporations. ITEP also examines state tax incentives provided to corporations in exchange for the promise of economic growth.
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