You paid taxes. These corporations didn't.

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Here's a list of some of the biggest profitable companies not paying federal taxes. In many cases, American taxpayers are subsidizing THEM. https://publicintegrity.org/business/taxes/trumps-tax-cuts/you-paid-taxes-these-corporations-didnt/ …

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TRUMP’S TAX CUTS: THE RICH GET RICHER
Published — April 11, 2019
YOU PAID TAXES. THESE CORPORATIONS DIDN’T.

About twice as many of the largest U.S. companies reported they didn’t owe taxes in 2018 compared with previous years, a partial result of the 2017 Trump tax law, according to a report.

Kathryn Kranhold
Contributing Reporter

This story was published in partnership with NBC News.

INTRODUCTION
Taxpayers are scrambling to make last-minute payments due to the Internal Revenue Service in just four days, but many of the country’s largest publicly-held corporations are doing better: They’ve reported they owe absolutely nothing on the billions of dollars in profits they earned last year.

At least 60 companies reported that their 2018 federal tax rates amounted to effectively zero, or even less than zero, on income earned on U.S. operations, according to an analysis released today by the Washington, D.C.-based think tank, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. The number is more than twice as many as ITEP found roughly, per year, on average in an earlier, multi-year analysis before the new tax law went into effect.

Among them are household names like technology giant Amazon.com Inc. and entertainment streaming service Netflix Inc., in addition to global oil giant Chevron Corp., pharmaceutical manufacturer Eli Lilly & Co., and farming and commercial equipment manufacturer Deere & Co.

The identified companies were “able to zero out their federal income taxes on $79 billion in U.S. pretax income,” according to the ITEP report, which was released today. “Instead of paying $16.4 billion in taxes, as the new 21 percent corporate tax rate requires, these companies enjoyed a net corporate tax rebate of $4.3 billion, blowing a $20.7 billion hole in the federal budget last year.” To compile the list, ITEP analyzed the 2018 financial filings of the country’s largest 560 publicly-held companies.

The following is a list of the country’s largest publicly-held profitable corporations that paid no federal income taxes in 2018 on billions in U.S. income, according to ITEP analysis of 560 companies. ITEP reports U.S. income before federal taxes, and takes into consideration paid state and local taxes, which could reduce or increase U.S. income. The report does not look at total tax provision, a number that could include foreign taxes and deferred taxes. All figures, except for tax rate, are in millions.

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[Me.]

1. And Yet Amazon Wanted Billions In Giveaways From NYC

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2. Recommended.

Remind me again how wonderful Jeff Bezos is for ruining small businesses with his predatory behavior.

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3. Need an alternative minimum tax for corporations

They already get to deduct virtually all of their expenses, unlike human-people who have to eat and stay warm, but can’t deduct food or heating bills...

Why not an AMT for corporations?