Trump gave top US firms staggering tax cuts, with some paying $0 or less – report

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Trump gave top US firms staggering tax cuts, with some paying $0 or less – report
theguardian.com

Among lowest taxpayers were companies whose CEOs have become high-profile advocates for corporate social responsibility

Some of the US’s most profitable corporations, including General Motors, Citigroup and Netflix, have slashed their tax bills in the years since the passage of the Trump tax cuts, with nearly a quarter paying rates in the single digits and 23 paying nothing, a report has found.

The 2017 law cut the top corporate income tax rate from 35% to 21%. But the new assessment of corporate tax avoidance, published on Thursday by the non-profit Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (Itep), found that during the first five years the law was in effect, many profitable public companies in the US paid a far lower rate in practice.

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How much the top 25 companies saved in taxes stiffed the public funds

Bank of America $23.89 billion

AT&T $17.68 billion

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. $16.69 billion

Verizon Communications $13.68 billion

Apple $9.26 billion

General Motors $6.52 billion

Citigroup $5.88 billion

Walt Disney $5.09 billion

NextEra Energy $4.57 billion

Duke Energy $4.51 billion

Comcast $4.36 billion

Walmart $4.04 billion

T-Mobile US $3.84 billion

Southern $3.41 billion

United Parcel Service $3.32 billion

Nike $3.12 billion

PNC Financial Services Group $3.08 billion

Netflix $2.98 billion

Texas Instruments $2.92 billion

Charter Communications $2.75 billion

Kinder Morgan $2.75 billion

FedEx $2.66 billion

Dominion Energy $2.62 billion

DISH Network $2.60 billion

Principal Financial $2.47 billion