While you’re making out your taxes due April 15th, corporate America is laughing all the way to the bank!
Despite the Supreme Court 's finding that corporations are basically people in the eyes of the law, corporations themselves cannot be moral or immoral -- they are entities, not sentient beings. We have a system that rewards the gamers, where winners take all, and influence peddling is rife; where the defense for a highly profitable company not paying taxes is that it is within the law.
“Despite complaints about the U.S.'s burdensome 35% corporate tax rate, two-thirds of American corporations pay no taxes in a given year. In a speech last week on the Senate floor, Senator Bernie Sanders (pictured here) (I) of Vermont called out the top 10 corporate tax avoiders:
Among those actually getting money back from the Feds:
- ExxonMobil made $19 billion in profits in 2009, paid no federal income taxes, received a $156 million rebate
- Bank of America received a $1.9 billion IRS refund despite $4.4 billion of profits
- General Electric had $26 billion in profits, and $4.1 billion refund (GE made it onto another top 10 list of top corporate lobbyists in 2010, spending $39 million)
- Chevron nabbed a $19 million refund after making $10 billion in profits
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