TRUMP-GOP Tax Law & Trump’s Tax Returns
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Trump Tax Cut Truths
Claims that corporations are sharing a big slice of their huge Trump tax cuts with employees through bonuses and wage hikes are mostly hype, the “Trump Tax Cut Truths” website of Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF) shows. The data on this website primarily covers Fortune 500 companies, whose revenues are two-thirds of the entire U.S. […]
Healthcare and Taxes
The Trump-GOP tax cuts, which cost $1.9 trillion, pose a serious threat to Medicare, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act. Fact Sheet: Tax Cuts for the Wealthy & Healthcare Corporations from Affordable Care Act Repeal Fact Sheet: Trump’s Tax & Budget Priorities Hurt Working Families Fact Sheet: Summary of Damage From Trump’s 2020 Budget Toolkit: […]
Tax Scam 2
Tax Scam 2 Materials Call to Action to Oppose #TaxScam2 Highlights of #TaxScam2 Tax Scam Round 2 Talking Points Digital Toolkit and Call-In Information State-By-State Infographics 776 National & State Organizations Oppose “Round 2” Of Trump-GOP Tax Cuts To Stop Another Big Giveaway To The Wealthy Vote on $3 Trillion in New Tax Cuts Planned […]
Tax Reform Plans
Americans for Tax Fairness’ recommendations for how to best reform the U.S. tax system.
Corporate Tax Dodgers
There is widespread and growing public opinion among the American public and the small business community that corporate tax loopholes need to be closed so we have the money to invest in a more promising future. This support is seen across the political spectrum.
Tax Havens
U.S. multinational corporations have more than $2 TRILLION in profits stashed offshore – much of it in tax havens. As long as those profits are offshore, a tax loophole lets corporations dodge paying taxes on them.
Estate Tax
The estate tax was created for several reasons – to raise revenue from those with the greatest ability to pay, and to encourage charitable giving and put a brake on the concentration of wealth and power. Unfortunately, America is rapidly becoming divided between the extremely rich and everyone else. The top 1% owns 37% of […]
Corporate Inversions
Corporations like Burger King and medical device maker Medtronic are planning to desert America by becoming foreign corporations. They plan to do this by buying a foreign company, and by changing their corporate address on paper to a tax haven country. It will let them avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. taxes. It’s what’s […]
Tax Extenders = Tax Loopholes
Some of America's biggest corporations and Wall Street banks make billions of dollars in profits every year, and pay a lower tax rate than families and small businesses. This year Congress is debating whether to renew 55 tax breaks -- known as “tax extenders” -- worth up to $700 billion over 10 years, which primarily benefit corporations like General Electric, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup.
Taxes and Special Interests
Thirty corporations spent $476 million to lobby Congress over three recent years. Their investment paid off: They dodged $68 billion in federal taxes.
Corporations have learned that they can write the rules in their favor by keeping lobbyists on Capitol Hill, and by contributing to the campaigns of politicians. Their lobbying has helped to keep tax loopholes open, pass special corporate tax breaks and discourage Congress from passing real tax reform that asks them to pay their fair share.
Buffett Rule
If the Buffett Rule becomes law, it will ensure that those who make more than $1 million a year (in adjusted gross income) will pay a minimum 30 percent tax rate. It was proposed after billionaire investor Warren Buffett noted that he pays a smaller percentage of his income in taxes than his secretary. Mr. […]
Corporate Taxes
Big corporations are making bigger and bigger profits, but they’re contributing less and less in taxes. That means they are doing less and less to help build roads and bridges, maintain our schools and fund the many other services government provides. Sixty years ago, 30 percent of total federal tax revenue was from corporations. Today […]
Bush Tax Cuts
Americans for Tax Fairness played a major role in fighting to repeal the Bush tax cuts on the wealthiest Americans, which were passed in 2001 and 2003 and reduced top individual income tax rates and taxes on dividends and capital gains. Early in 2013, Congress passed legislation that renewed the Bush tax cuts for all […]