(Please tell me the irony isn't lost on any of you that the industry the govt bailed out of the financial crisis--the financial industry--is one of the two industries most populated with corporate tax dodgers. It's all done out in the open, no one tries to hide anything, and the govt doesn't do a damn thing about it because they are in on it!
You have the US Congress doing the bidding of of their corporate masters, who bought the elections to begin with. Favors come due quickly, and thus, you have the situation in Wisconsin, you have the budget slashing for 2012 that includes tax cuts for the wealthy executives heading these tax dodging corporations, and cuts to programs desperately needed by those poorest Americans--who have increased the number of those living under the poverty level to over 47 million people who are mostly women and children.
Can you not connect the dots and see how the rich have declared a class war on all of US with the full approval of all 3 branches of govt? Wake up, kids. For your own sake, wake the hell up!--jef)
Monday, March 21, 2011 by CommonDreams.org
Top seeds in the Tax Haven Tourney: banks and power companies
by Paul Buchheit
You have the US Congress doing the bidding of of their corporate masters, who bought the elections to begin with. Favors come due quickly, and thus, you have the situation in Wisconsin, you have the budget slashing for 2012 that includes tax cuts for the wealthy executives heading these tax dodging corporations, and cuts to programs desperately needed by those poorest Americans--who have increased the number of those living under the poverty level to over 47 million people who are mostly women and children.
Can you not connect the dots and see how the rich have declared a class war on all of US with the full approval of all 3 branches of govt? Wake up, kids. For your own sake, wake the hell up!--jef)
Monday, March 21, 2011 by CommonDreams.org
Top seeds in the Tax Haven Tourney: banks and power companies
by Paul Buchheit
The small companies and public didn't have a chance in the early rounds. Now it's down to a few formidable corporate teams, the Cheat 16:
All the above has been documented by US Uncut Chicago members on PayUpNow.org .
Who's projected for the Final Frauding Four?
Tax Haven Tourney Champion? GE is the Duke of Tax Avoidance.
- General Electric made $10.3 billion in 2009, but received a $1.1 billion tax rebate.
- Forbes said about Bank of America in 2010: "How did they not pay any taxes on $4.4 billion in income?"
- Oil giant Exxon made a $45 billion profit in 2009, but paid no taxes in the United States.
- Citigroup had 4 quarters of billion-dollar profits in 2010, but paid no taxes.
- Wells Fargo made $12 billion but purchased Wachovia Bank to claim a $19 billion tax credit.
- Hewlett Packard's U.S. income tax rate was 4.3% in 2008 and 2.3% in 2009.
- Verizon's 10.5% tax rate, according to Forbes, is due to its partnership with Vodafone, the primary target in UK Uncut's protests against tax evaders.
- Chevron's tax rate was 1% in 2008.
- Boeing, which just won a $30 billion contract to build 179 airborne tankers, got $124 million back from the taxpayers in 2010.
- Over the past 5 years Amazon made $3.5 billion and paid taxes at the rate of 4.3%.
- Carnival Cruise Lines paid 1% in taxes on its $11.5 billion profit over the past 5 years.
- Koch Industries is not publicly traded, so their antics are kept private. But they benefit from taxpayer subsidies in ranching and logging.
- In 2008 CorporateWatch said Rupert Murdoch's Newscorp paid "astoundingly low taxes" because of tax havens.
- Google "cut its taxes by $3.1 billion in the last three years by shifting its money around foreign countries.
- Merck, the second-largest drugmaker in the U.S., last year brought more than $9 billion from abroad without paying any U.S. tax.
- Pfizer, the largest drugmaker in the U.S., erased $10 billion in taxes with an "accounting treatment."
All the above has been documented by US Uncut Chicago members on PayUpNow.org .
Who's projected for the Final Frauding Four?
Best Defense: Google uses a game plan called a "Double Irish Defense," which moves most of its foreign profits through Ireland and the Netherlands to Bermuda.
Best Offense: GE's 2010 SEC 10-K tax filing boldly states: "At December 31, 2010, $94 billion of earnings have been indefinitely reinvested outside the United States...we do not intend to repatriate these earnings.."
Most Steals: Citigroup: 427 tax haven subsidiaries
Best Trash talk: A General Electric spokeswoman: “G.E. pays many other taxes including payroll taxes on the wages of our employees, property taxes, sales and use and value added taxes."
Most game-ending bailouts: Bank of America received $45 Billion in tax payer bailout funds in 2008 and 2009. In 2009 the company earned a pretax income of $4.4 billion, but claimed a $1.9 Billion tax benefit from the government.
Teams with the most reserves:
General Electric: $77 billion
Google: $24 billion
That's 2 companies holding $101 billion that could be invested in jobs.
Tax Haven Tourney Champion? GE is the Duke of Tax Avoidance.
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