The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy recently released a study of the tax burdens of 258 of the Fortune 500 from 2008 to 2015. They found that these 258 companies earned more than $3.8 trillion in profits and paid an average rate of 21.2 percent. Companies with the biggest tax subsidies over the eight years, the institute’s report included:
■ AT&T ($38.1 billion)
■ Wells Fargo ($31.4 billion)
■ JPMorgan Chase ($22.2 billion)
■ Verizon ($21.1 billion)
■ IBM ($17.8 billion)
■ General Electric ($15.4 billion)
■ Exxon Mobil ($12.9 billion)
■ Boeing ($11.9 billion)
■ Procter & Gamble ($8.5 billion)
■ Twenty-First Century Fox ($7.6 billion)
■ Time Warner ($6.7 billion)
■ Goldman Sachs ($5.5 billion)
GE protested that the report was “deeply flawed and misleading.”
Other tidbits from the report:
• 100 companies enjoyed at least one year in which their federal income tax was zero or less
• 24 companies paid zero taxes in four out of eight years
• 18 companies (including General Electric, International Paper, Priceline.com and PG&E) paid no federal income tax over the eight-year period.
• Collectively, the 258 corporations enjoyed $513 billion in tax breaks over the last eight years. More than half of those tax breaks, $277 billion, went to just 25 of the most profitable corporations.
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