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Fix the Tax Code Friday: Tax Credits for Business

26 June 2009

It’s Fix the Tax Code Friday! Over the past few weeks, I’ve reported on a number of industry-specific tax credits offered to businesses, including tax credits for the tech industry and for the movie industry. Reports have been mixed as to whether these credits produce any results. I’m interested to know what individual taxpayers think. [...]

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Twitter Tax Tips #14

16 March 2009

About an hour and a half left to file your corporate extensions. If you’re stuck, try @filelater #TwitterTaxTip ** that’s filelater.com for you non-twitter types! (For more on twitter tax tips, see my prior explanatory post.)

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More Than Half of US Companies Pay No Income Tax

12 August 2008

According to the Government Accountability Office, in any given year, at least 60% of US corporations surveyed paid no federal income tax liability for 1998 to 2005 (the years studied). That statistic includes corporations of varied sizes. If the trends in the survey are accurate, nearly one quarter of large US corporations don’t pay any [...]

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Tops

15 July 2007

Fortune 500 has released its list of America’s largest corporations. They are: 1. Wal-Mart Stores 2. Exxon Mobil 3. General Motors 4. Chevron 5. ConocoPhillips 6. General Electric 7. Ford Motor 8. Citigroup 9. Bank of America 10. American International Group I thought it would be cool to compare this list with the top ten [...]

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Germany Gets A Break

12 July 2007

Many of my husband’s clients are likely breathing a sigh of relief this morning. He represents a number of German corporations who pay tax rates which are much higher than their European cousins – and generally much higher than companies in the United States. In order to compete in an increasingly global market, Germany has [...]

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