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Tax Dodging By Corporations And The Wealthy Cost Each Taxpayer $1,026 In 2012
By Travis Waldron
Americas largest corporations have stashed nearly $1.5 trillion in offshore tax havens like Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, and Ireland countries where they do little business but claim massive profits due to low tax rates. As a result, corporate tax rates fell to a 40-year low in 2011 even as profits rose to a 60-year high.
Tax avoidance from corporations and wealthy individuals has a cost for individual taxpayers and small businesses, according to a new report from the U.S. Public Interest Research Group. According to U.S. PIRG, tax dodging cost individual taxpayers $1,026 and each small business $3,067 in 2012.
Those costs dont necessarily come from higher taxes; instead, they often come in the form of higher budget deficits or, as they are now, from substantial cuts to public programs and services that benefit middle- and low-income families. This is a real loss and its putting great pressure on the budget and all kinds of investments and programs that the federal government needs to continue to fund, Michigan Sen. Carl Levin (D) said on a conference call unveiling the report today. Levin has authored legislation calling for the closure of tax loopholes that incentivize the offshoring of profits. Its time to close the loopholes, reduce the deficit to protect these important investments in our future, and to bring some fairness back to the tax code, Levin said.
As corporate tax reform becomes a hot topic in Washington, however, corporations are pushing for reforms that would make it even easier to offshore profits. A territorial system, desired by corporations and corporate lobbying groups, would exempt most foreign profits from American taxation and allow corporations to return profits to the U.S. without taxing them. But Dan Smith, the tax and budget director at U.S. PIRG and co-author of the report, said such a system would only make corporate tax dodging worse.
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http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/04/04/1822581/tax-dodging-by-corporations-and-the-wealthy-cost-each-taxpayer-1026-in-2012/
By Travis Waldron
Americas largest corporations have stashed nearly $1.5 trillion in offshore tax havens like Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, and Ireland countries where they do little business but claim massive profits due to low tax rates. As a result, corporate tax rates fell to a 40-year low in 2011 even as profits rose to a 60-year high.
Tax avoidance from corporations and wealthy individuals has a cost for individual taxpayers and small businesses, according to a new report from the U.S. Public Interest Research Group. According to U.S. PIRG, tax dodging cost individual taxpayers $1,026 and each small business $3,067 in 2012.
Those costs dont necessarily come from higher taxes; instead, they often come in the form of higher budget deficits or, as they are now, from substantial cuts to public programs and services that benefit middle- and low-income families. This is a real loss and its putting great pressure on the budget and all kinds of investments and programs that the federal government needs to continue to fund, Michigan Sen. Carl Levin (D) said on a conference call unveiling the report today. Levin has authored legislation calling for the closure of tax loopholes that incentivize the offshoring of profits. Its time to close the loopholes, reduce the deficit to protect these important investments in our future, and to bring some fairness back to the tax code, Levin said.
As corporate tax reform becomes a hot topic in Washington, however, corporations are pushing for reforms that would make it even easier to offshore profits. A territorial system, desired by corporations and corporate lobbying groups, would exempt most foreign profits from American taxation and allow corporations to return profits to the U.S. without taxing them. But Dan Smith, the tax and budget director at U.S. PIRG and co-author of the report, said such a system would only make corporate tax dodging worse.
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http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/04/04/1822581/tax-dodging-by-corporations-and-the-wealthy-cost-each-taxpayer-1026-in-2012/
Remember this when the next Republican blowhard talks about the debt and the next generation.
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Tax Dodging By Corporations And The Wealthy Cost Each Taxpayer $1,026 In 2012 (Original Post)
ProSense
Apr 2013
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(53,475 posts)1. How's that trickle-down working out for ya?
ProSense
(116,464 posts)2. Nice cartoon. n/t