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pbmus

(12,422 posts) Fri Jul 18, 2014, 02:09 PM Jul 2014

WTF ...52

Corporate Tax Inversions Will Cost U.S. Billions — and We’ll All Pay

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"Although the federal corporate tax rate is touted as the world’s highest at 35 percent, data from the Government Accountability Office show that corporations paid an average effective tax rate of roughly 17 percent last year, and many corporations paid nothing or got refunds."

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WTF ...52 (Original Post) pbmus Jul 2014 OP

paid nothing or got subsidies* tk2kewl Jul 2014 #1

tk2kewl

(18,133 posts)

1. paid nothing or got subsidies*

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Fri Jul 18, 2014, 04:10 PM

Jul 2014

Refunds are what you get when you overpay.

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