{"id":906,"date":"2011-11-03T13:51:12","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T17:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=906"},"modified":"2011-11-03T13:51:12","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T17:51:12","slug":"30-major-corporations-paid-no-income-taxes-in-the-last-three-years-while-making-160-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/11\/30-major-corporations-paid-no-income-taxes-in-the-last-three-years-while-making-160-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Major Corporations Paid No Income Taxes In The Last Three Years, While Making $160 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2011\/11\/03\/360185\/30-corporations-no-taxes\/\"><img src='http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/stoptaxdodger.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One of the driving forces behind the ongoing Occupy Wall Street protests is the fact that corporations have not been paying their fair share in taxes. A new report from Citizens for Tax Justice will no nothing to alleviate the protesters\u2019 frustration.<\/p>\n<p>CTJ looked at 280 companies, all of them members of the Fortune 500, and found that \u201cwhile the federal corporate tax code ostensibly requires big corporations to pay a 35 percent corporate income tax rate, on average, the 280 corporations in our study paid only about half that amount.\u201d And those who paid even half the statutory corporate tax rate paid far more than many of their competitors.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2011\/11\/03\/360185\/30-corporations-no-taxes\/\">30 Major Corporations Paid No Income Taxes In The Last Three Years, While Making $160 Billion | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; One of the driving forces behind the ongoing Occupy Wall Street protests is the fact that corporations have not been paying their fair share in taxes. A new report from Citizens for Tax Justice will no nothing to alleviate the protesters\u2019 frustration. CTJ looked at 280 companies, all of them members of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,22],"tags":[560,256,410,561,87,40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":908,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions\/908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}