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    04-06-2010, 08:23 PM #1

    Outrageous: Exxon Mobil Paid No Income Tax in 2009

    Last week, Forbes magazine published what the top U.S. corporations paid in taxes last year. “Most egregious,” Forbes notes, is General Electric, which “generated $10.3 billion in pretax income, but ended up owing nothing to Uncle Sam. In fact, it recorded a tax benefit of $1.1 billion.” Big Oil giant Exxon Mobil, which last year reported a record $45.2 billion profit, paid the most taxes of any corporation, but none of it went to the IRS:

    Exxon tries to limit the tax pain with the help of 20 wholly owned subsidiaries domiciled in the Bahamas, Bermuda and the Cayman Islands that (legally) shelter the cash flow from operations in the likes of Angola, Azerbaijan and Abu Dhabi. No wonder that of $15 billion in income taxes last year, Exxon paid none of it to Uncle Sam, and has tens of billions in earnings permanently reinvested overseas.

    Mother Jones’ Adam Weinstein notes that, despite benefiting from corporate welfare in the U.S., Exxon complains about paying high taxes, claiming that it threatens energy innovation research. Pat Garofalo at the Wonk Room notes that big corporations’ tax shelter practices similar to Exxon’s shift a $100 billion annual tax burden onto U.S. taxpayers.

    In fact, in 2008, the Government Accountability Office found that “two out of every three United States corporations paid no federal income taxes from 1998 through 2005.”

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    To those few that read my posts re uncontrolled capitalism's rape of this country; this is why I criticize corporations and capitalism. They enjoy what WE cannot. This is truly a United States of Corporations. Politicians (and the public's) idolization of "business" has to be tamed. Capitalism must not be allowed to be as unregulated as it currently is and to shift its responsibilities to us.

    And pay attention to the last sentence in the article especially. When you hear someone say that corporations have a high tax rate, that they must not be taxed because they create jobs (in India they do), that US taxes are sooo high - tell them it's all BS!
    Last edited by Atypical; 04-06-2010 at 08:46 PM.