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Fact 2* Released: July 31, 2012 – Taxes (see Fact #1 here)
Stifling innovation – or paying a fair share?
The United States has the world’s highest corporate income tax rate at up to 35%. Japan recently lowered its corporate tax rate to 30%, and some U.S. companies are moving operations to countries with lower rates such as Ireland, where the corporate tax rate is 12.5%. After various tax deductions and credits, the U.S. collected $205 billion in corporate income tax in 2009 from 5.8 million corporations, down from $228 billion the year before.
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Here are stories and opinion relating to this fact. We didn’t base the fact on any of them; we simply find them interesting. Some argue a point of view. That’s them talking, not us….
- Third Way: “The case for corporate tax reform”
- Mercatus Center at George Mason University: “Why the US needs to restructure the corporate income tax”
- Virginia Law Review: “Corporations, Society, and the State: A Defense of the Corporate Tax”
- Tax Foundation: “The countdown is over; we’re No. 1”
- Huffington Post: “Apple, Google Amazon pay corporate income tax well below official rate”
- Christian Science Monitor: “US corporate tax rates must come down”
- Heritage Foundation: “Corporate tax reform should focus on rate reduction”
- New York Times: “How Apple sidesteps billions in taxes”
- Newsmax: “Corporate taxes crushing the economy”
- 60 Minutes video: “A look at the world’s new corporate tax havens”
*http://www.facethefactsusa.org/facts/ask-for-the-corporate-rate-or-not/
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