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Nov. 3, 2011, 5:10 a.m. EDT
Tax rate for 280 profitable firms ranges from 41% to negative 58%: study
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) The official federal corporate income tax rate in the U.S. is 35%, but plenty of the nations largest publicly traded companies are paying no taxes even getting money back from the government in some cases in years when they reap big profits, according to a new report.
Thirty of the 280 Fortune 500 companies studied paid zero in federal income taxes or enjoyed tax rebates in 2008, 2009 and 2010, according to the study by the left-leaning Citizens for Tax Justice, a Washington-based nonprofit research and advocacy group, and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research group.
And 78 of the 280 companies paid nothing in federal income taxes or enjoyed a tax rebate in at least one of those years. Those 78 companies, including General Electric Co. GE +1.85% and Pepco Holdings Inc. POM +1.80% , earned a total of $156 billion in pretax U.S. profits in the years they paid no income tax, yet received so many tax breaks that they reported negative taxes a total of negative $22 billion, the study said.
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Tax rate for 280 profitable firms ranges from 41% to negative 58%: study
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) The official federal corporate income tax rate in the U.S. is 35%, but plenty of the nations largest publicly traded companies are paying no taxes even getting money back from the government in some cases in years when they reap big profits, according to a new report.
Thirty of the 280 Fortune 500 companies studied paid zero in federal income taxes or enjoyed tax rebates in 2008, 2009 and 2010, according to the study by the left-leaning Citizens for Tax Justice, a Washington-based nonprofit research and advocacy group, and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research group.
And 78 of the 280 companies paid nothing in federal income taxes or enjoyed a tax rebate in at least one of those years. Those 78 companies, including General Electric Co. GE +1.85% and Pepco Holdings Inc. POM +1.80% , earned a total of $156 billion in pretax U.S. profits in the years they paid no income tax, yet received so many tax breaks that they reported negative taxes a total of negative $22 billion, the study said.
read more Big profits, zero taxes for large U.S. companies - TaxWatch - MarketWatch