- It’s claimed that the richest Americans pay a disproportionate share of taxes. These claims ignore federal payroll taxes, federal excise taxes, state and local taxes — focusing on just federal personal income tax. These regressive taxes take a larger share of income from poor/middle-income families. http://www.ctj.org/pdf/taxday2012.pdf 6 comments politics
- Legislation Introduced to Stop American Corporations from Pretending to Be Foreign Companies http://www.ctj.org/taxjusticedigest/archive/2014/05/legislation_introduced_to_stop.php 4 comments politics
- House Committee Votes to Increase Deficit by Nearly $300 Billion with "Bonus" Depreciation http://www.ctj.org/taxjusticedigest/archive/2014/05/house_committee_votes_to_incre.php#.u4fz5sj40ta 4 comments politics
- Lawmakers Will Move Tuesday to Approve Hundreds of Billions in Business Tax Breaks and Still No Help for the Unemployed http://www.ctj.org/taxjusticedigest/archive/2014/04/lawmakers_will_move_tuesday_to.php#.u1wyl1c4dpc 17 comments politics
- Congress Is About to Shower More Tax Breaks on Corporations After Telling the Unemployed to Drop Dead http://www.ctj.org/taxjusticedigest/archive/2014/02/congress_is_about_to_shower_mo.php 596 comments politics
- Does the NFL Need a Billion Dollar Subsidy Annually from Taxpayers? http://www.ctj.org/taxjusticedigest/archive/2014/02/does_the_nfl_need_a_billion_do.php#.uvrb7ltijvy 3 comments politics
- Republican Platform Expected to Endorse Gutting Laws that Stop Offshore Tax Evasion http://www.ctj.org/taxjusticedigest/archive/2014/01/republican_platform_expected_t.php#.uugawrqo7iu 23 comments politics
- Corporate-Backed Tax Lobby Groups Proliferating: The corporate tax reform debate in the nation's capital has been invaded by an army of corporate interest groups seeking to rebrand and build momentum for a corporate tax reform that benefits corporate rather than public interests. http://www.ctj.org/ctjreports/2013/08/corporate-backed_tax_lobby_groups_proliferating.php#.uhkkmd_qo2k 3 comments politics
- Do the Math: Sequester Cuts to IRS Increase the Deficit http://www.ctj.org/taxjusticedigest/archive/2013/04/do_the_math_sequester_cuts_to.php 3 comments economy
- A revealing new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that in 2011, the US government spent as much on corporate tax expenditures as it collected in corporate taxes http://www.ctj.org/taxjusticedigest/archive/2013/04/the_corporate_tax_code_gives_a.php 4 comments politics
- Study: US Tax Code Fails to Slow Widening Economic Inequality http://www.ctj.org/taxjusticedigest/archive/2013/04/study_us_tax_code_fails_to_slo.php#.uv3-kb9k8yf 4 comments politics
- The Myth that "Tax Cuts Pay for Themselves" Is Back http://www.ctj.org/taxjusticedigest/archive/2013/03/the_myth_that_tax_cuts_pay_for.php 38 comments politics
- Jindal Leaves Inconvenient Details Out of His Tax Plan http://www.ctj.org/taxjusticedigest/archive/2013/03/jindal_leaves_inconvenient_det.php#.uuth3fd5clq 9 comments politics
- Gas Tax Gains Favor in the States http://www.ctj.org/taxjusticedigest/archive/2013/02/gas_tax_gains_favor_in_the_sta.php 3 comments politics
- Arthur Laffer Promises Trickle-Down Prosperity, Again http://www.ctj.org/taxjusticedigest/archive/2013/01/arthur_laffer_promises_trickle.php 5 comments politics
- The truth is that Romney isn’t proposing a $5 trillion tax cut, he’s proposing a $10 trillion tax cut http://www.ctj.org/taxjusticedigest/archive/2012/10/debate_debrief_romney_and_obam.php 108 comments politics
- GOP candidates tax plans favor richest 1% - New Report http://www.ctj.org/ 3 comments politics
- Why don't Democrats argue: "The top 1% earn more than 20% of the income, but pay less than 5% of payroll and excise taxes?" Nearly an equal share of federal revenues as income tax. http://www.ctj.org/pdf/taxday2011.pdf 37 comments politics
- Citizens for Tax Justice, as part of a forthcoming study on tax avoidance among the Fortune 500, has identified 12 corporations that have paid an effective rate of negative 1.5 percent on $171 billion in profits. http://www.ctj.org/pdf/12corps060111.pdf?=source 8 comments politics
- Speaker Boehner calls for "territorial" tax system; would exempt corporate profits shifted offshore http://www.ctj.org/taxjusticedigest/archive/2011/05/speaker_boehner_calls_for_terr.php 3 comments politics
- On April 15, make your income tax check payable to Boeing: Hugely profitable company wins $35 billion federal contract and hasn't paid a dime in federal taxes in 3 years. http://www.ctj.org/pdf/boeing0211.pdf 7 comments politics
- Hey Right Wing the US already has the among lowest tax rates in the industrialized world. Only Turkey and Mexico are lower, please move there. http://www.ctj.org/pdf/oecd111110.pdf 6 comments politics
- Hypocritical Republican senators supported a tax giveaway of $2.48 trillion dollars from Social Security taxes for their billionaire cronies. Now, they oppose $900 million to provide health care for every American. http://www.ctj.org/ 23 comments politics
- 71 companies managed to pay no state income tax at all in at least one year from 2001 through 2003 despite making $86 billion in pretax U.S. profits in those no-tax years. http://www.ctj.org/html/corp0205.htm 23 comments reddit.com