Articles on Corporate Welfare and Corporate Tax Issues

Corporate Tax Evasion and Tax Rate Issues

Apr 2007	Big Tax Breaks for Big Boxes (Syracuse Post Register)
Feb 2007	Wal-Mart Cuts Taxes by Paying Rent to Itself (Wall St. Journal)
Feb 2007	Wal-Mart: Always Low Taxes (Baltimore Sun)
Jan 2007	Agents Say Fast Audits Hurt I.R.S.
Jan 2007	Transnational Corporations Dodging Taxes Through "Transfer Pricing"
Sep 2006	Stop Corporate Tax Evasion in Montana
May 2006	New Mexico Cracks Down on Wal-Mart Corporation's Tax Evasion Scheme
Nov 2004	The Gap Between Statutory and Real Corporate Tax Rates
Sep 2004	Bush Plan: Tax Wages, Exempt Wealth
Sep 2004	Corporate Taxes Continue to Plummet
Apr 2004	IRS Response to Widespread Accounting Fraud? Audit Fewer Corporations
Apr 2004	Corporate Tax Evasion via Offshore Subsidiaries: A Primer
Feb 2004	Bush Claims His Tax Cuts Help Small Business, Government Data Disagrees
Oct 2003	Corporate Tax Dodges Grow
Mar 2003	The Corporate Tax Game
Aug 2002	Corporations Evade Taxes, We Pay Their Share
June 2002	Helping Fat Cats Dodge the Taxman

 

Corporate Welfare / Subsidies

July 2005	The Sugar Industry and Corporate Welfare
Jan 2005	Wean Airlines off Corporate Welfare
Dec 2004	Is Corporate Welfare Unconstitutional? Appeals Court Says Yes.
Apr 2004	Corporate Tax Evasion via Offshore Subsidiaries
Mar 2004	I Was a Millionaire Welfare Queen
Mar 2004	Tax Rates and Unemployment Rates Show Negative Correlation
Jan 2004	The Ultimate in Cynicism: Bush to Pose as Corporate Accountability Advocate
Dec 2003	Wal-Mart, the Abuse of Eminent Domain and Corporate Welfare
Nov 2003	Republican Energy Bill Gives Away Billions to Bush Investors
Nov 2003	State Subsidies to Corporations Yield Little Return
June 2003	Nuclear Power is Corporate Welfare
June 2003	What Would Jesus Do? Sock It to Alabama's Corporate Landowners
Apr 2003	Once Foes of Big Tobacco, States Have Been Hooked

 

Useful Books and Websites on These Issues

Perfectly Legal by David Cay Johnson, 2003. The Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter reveals how the U.S. tax system is rigged to allow corporations and the very rich to elude paying anywhere near their official tax rate.

 

Taxpayers for Common Sense

Taxpayer.net
A group dedicated to cutting corporate pork.

Citizen Works

has compiled a great deal of useful information on this topic

Cato Institute

Cato.org/pubs/handbook/hb105-9.html
Guidelines from the libertarian-oriented Cato Institute to help congress reverse corporate welfare.

Good Jobs First

GoodJobsFirst.org/research.htm

This page offers a free guide to investigating development subsidies--one of the most common forms of corporate welfare.

The New Rules Project

NewRules.org/retail/veto.html

This page offers several useful resources on curbing corporate welfare and this page on agricultural subsidies.

 

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