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Related: About this forumExxon Mobil’s Tax Rate Drops To 13 Percent, After Making 35 Percent More Profits On Rising Gas Price
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/03/26/452213/exxon-mobils-tax-rate-drops-to-13-percent-after-making-35-percent-more-profits-in-2011/Exxon Mobils Tax Rate Drops To 13 Percent, After Making 35 Percent More Profits On Rising Gas Prices In 2011
By Rebecca Leber on Mar 26, 2012 at 6:13 pm
Exxon Mobil, the most profitable of the big five oil companies, made $41.1 billion in profits last year. Although Exxon made 35 percent more profits since 2010, its estimated effective tax rate actually dropped. Citizens for Tax Justice reported Exxon paid only 17.6 percent taxes in 2010, lower than the average American, and a Reuters analysis using the same criteria estimates that Exxon will pay only 13 percent in effective taxes for 2011. Exxon paid zero taxes to the federal government in 2009.
Reuters compares the 45 percent tax rate Exxon claims it pays to the effective rate estimated by Citizens for Tax Justice a rate thats even lower than Mitt Romneys tax rate. Chevron, which made $26.9 billion profit in 2011, paid 19 percent:
Citizens for Tax Justice considers U.S. profits and U.S. taxes paid only. By that measure, Exxon Mobil paid 13 percent of its U.S. income in taxes after deductions and benefits in 2011, according to a Reuters calculation of securities filings.
It is a far cry from the 35 percent top corporate tax rate.
Still, the three-year average for telecom companies is 8 percent; for information technology services companies, it is 2.5 percent, according to CTJ.
Chevron CEO John Watson recently claimed Were the highest taxed industry that Im aware of while the American Petroleum Institute has claimed the industry pays a tax rate at more than 40 percent
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/05/tax_man.html
Exxon Mobil Corp.'s robust balance sheets have become a poster child for what The New York Times dubs the paradox of the United States tax code.
The companys large 2010 profits allowed them to lead Fortune 500s annual ranking of the nations most profitable firms for the eighth time in a row. But the oil giants average effective tax rates are roughly half the 35 percent tax rate that currently stands as the high-water mark for American corporations. Meanwhile, Exxon Mobil and other big oil companies continue to exploit tax loopholes for nearly $4 billion in subsidies each year. These subsidies include write-offs for drilling costs and a deduction for domestic production that was intended for manufacturers, not big oil producers.
Exxon Mobil registered an average 17.6 percent federal effective corporate tax rate on its annual earnings in the three years spanning 2008 to 2010. Its average domestic profits exceeded $6.8 billion. And as a 2011 Citizens for Tax Justice report points out:
Over the past two years, ExxonMobil reported $9,910 million in pretax U.S. profits. But it enjoyed so many tax subsidies that its federal income tax bill was only $39 milliona tax rate of only 0.4 percent.
I pay a higher rate as a teacher
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Exxon Mobil’s Tax Rate Drops To 13 Percent, After Making 35 Percent More Profits On Rising Gas Price (Original Post)
wordpix
May 2012
OP
History shows that concentrated wealth like power equals violent political coups.This is bad.
The Wielding Truth
May 2012
#1
The people do not take to the concentration of power. Even if Exxon runs the first coup the people
The Wielding Truth
May 2012
#3
The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)1. History shows that concentrated wealth like power equals violent political coups.This is bad.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)2. just went to hear Steven Coll, who has a book out about Exxon's empire
Exxon specializes in coups and keeping people in power who will "work" with them; i.e. take their bribes and do their bidding.
The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)3. The people do not take to the concentration of power. Even if Exxon runs the first coup the people
will end it with another. It may take a while, but humans will not stand to be oppressed, poor or abused.These horrible excesses of power by huge corporations are very destabilizing. Do we want peace? If so, we must insist on democracy and the dismantling of mega monopolies.