March 6, 2017 03:46 PM | Permalink | For Immediate Release: Monday, March 6, 2017 Robert McIntyre, CTJ’s long-time executive director, will retire and former ITEP executive director Matthew Gardner will be a senior fellow The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy Board of Directors and the Citizens for Tax Justice Board of Directors are […]
October 14, 2016 02:06 PM | Permalink | The final earnings stripping regulations released Thursday by the U.S. Treasury Department de-incentivizes corporate inversions and makes it more difficult for corporations to avoid taxes by loading their U.S. subsidiaries with debt. Following is a statement by Robert S. McIntyre, director of Citizens for Tax Justice: “While […]
October 11, 2016 04:29 PM | Permalink | Read this report in PDF. A new Citizens for Tax Justice (CTJ) analysis of the tax plan proposed by presidential candidate Hillary Clinton as of October, including recently proposed changes to the child tax credit, finds that the plan would raise federal revenues by $1.46 trillion over […]
October 4, 2016 12:01 AM | Permalink | The Use of Offshore Tax Havens by Fortune 500 Companies Read this report in PDF. Download Dataset/Appendix (XLS) Table of Contents Executive Summary Introduction Most of America’s Largest Corporations Maintain Subsidiaries in Offshore Tax Havens Earnings Booked Offshore for Tax Purposes by U.S. Multinationals Doubled between 2009 and 2015 […]
October 4, 2016 12:00 AM | Permalink | Stashing $2.5 Trillion in Offshore Tax Havens Allows Companies to Avoid up to $717.8 Billion in U.S. Taxes In 2015, more than 73 percent of Fortune 500 companies maintained subsidiaries in offshore tax havens, according to “Offshore Shell Games,” released today by the U.S. PIRG Education Fund, Citizens […]
September 26, 2016 01:52 PM | Permalink | Read this report in PDF. A new Citizens for Tax Justice (CTJ) analysis of the revised tax plan proposed by presidential candidate Donald Trump in September finds that the plan would reduce federal revenues by at least $4.8 trillion over the next decade while cutting taxes for […]
September 26, 2016 01:50 PM | Permalink | For Immediate Release: Monday, September 26, 2016 Plan cuts taxes for every income group on average, but some low-income families would see tax increases A new distributional analysis of Donald Trump’s tax plan reveals that 44 percent of the candidate’s proposed tax cuts would go to the […]
August 30, 2016 12:33 PM | Permalink | Following is a statement by Matt Gardner of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (the research umbrella for Citizens for Tax Justice) regarding the European Commission’s ruling today that the Apple Corporation must pay as much as €13 billion ($14.5 billion) in back taxes due to […]
July 22, 2016 09:17 AM | Permalink | Donald Trump Hillary Clinton The Distributional and Revenue Impact of Donald Trump’s Revised Tax Plan The Distributional and Revenue Impact of Hillary Clinton’s Tax Plan Commentary: Making Sense of Tax Issues Raised During the First Presidential Debate – September 29, 2016 Trump’s Extensive Tax Breaks Highlight […]
July 21, 2016 10:55 AM | Permalink | Read the Comment Letter in PDF. Re: File No. S7-06-16, Business and Financial Disclosure Required by Regulation S-K Dear Mr. Fields, The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) plays a critical role in our economy as the agency charged with ensuring that our markets operate in a fair, […]
July 7, 2016 09:00 AM | Permalink | Read the ‘Earnings Stripping’ Letter in PDF Read the ‘Serial Inverter’ Letter in PDF Citizens for Tax Justice (CTJ) submitted comments this week in support of two parts of the Treasury’s proposed anti-inversion rules, the Serial Inverter Rule and the Earnings Stripping Rule, while also urging Treasury […]
June 30, 2016 10:21 AM | Permalink | Read this report in PDF. Background Offshore profit shifting by U.S. multinational corporations is estimated to cost the federal government at least $111 billion annually in foregone corporate tax revenue.[1] In March, CTJ reported that Fortune 500 companies are holding $2.4 trillion offshore as “permanently invested” profits.[2] […]
June 29, 2016 09:00 AM | Permalink | Read this report in PDF. A new distributional analysis of Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan’s “A Better Way” policies finds that the plan would: • Add $4 trillion to the national debt over a decade. • Overwhelmingly benefit the top 1 percent of tax payers while resulting […]
June 24, 2016 11:40 AM | Permalink | CTJ on Speaker Ryan’s Tax Plan: Tax Cuts for Corporations and the Wealthy Never Have and Will Not Deliver on Promises of Economic Growth (Washington, D.C.) Following is a statement by Bob McIntyre, director of Citizens for Tax Justice, regarding the release of House Speaker Paul Ryan’s […]
June 9, 2016 09:14 AM | Permalink | Tech Companies, Big Banks Worst Offenders When It Comes to Writing off Executive Compensation to Avoid Billions in Taxes New Report Finds 315 Fortune 500 Companies Used “Stock Option Loophole” to Collectively Avoid $64.5 Billion in State and Federal Taxes From 2011 to 2015, the executive stock […]
June 9, 2016 09:00 AM | Permalink | Apple & Facebook Biggest Beneficiaries Read this report in PDF. One of the most egregious loopholes in the tax code, known as the stock option loophole, allows companies to deduct millions or billions from their taxable income for compensating executives in the form of stock options. Corporations […]
June 8, 2016 12:58 PM | Permalink | Raise Revenue, Enhance Fairness, Stop Corporate Tax Avoidance Read the report as a PDF. There is widespread agreement in Congress and among the American people that the U.S. tax system needs reform. Yet some proposed federal tax changes defy what most Americans would consider reform. This policy […]
May 16, 2016 02:50 PM | Permalink | Three Reasons to Reject the Dividends Paid Deduction and Corporation Integration Read this report in PDF. Since the beginning of this year, Senate Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch has been working on a proposal to “integrate” corporate and shareholder level taxes into what he calls a single level […]
April 26, 2016 11:04 AM | Permalink | For Immediate Release: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 Contact: Jenice R. Robinson, 202.299.1066 X29, Jenice@ctj.org Following is a statement by Bob McIntyre, director of Citizens for Tax Justice, regarding the Senate Finance Committee’s hearing today on business tax reform. “For many years, the tax committees in Congress have refused […]
April 14, 2016 01:41 PM | Permalink | Findings from Citizens for Tax Justice’s Recent Reports Read this report in PDF. 1. The nation’s tax system is barely progressive. ■A new CTJ analysis shows that the total share of taxes (federal, state, and local) that will be paid by Americans across the economic spectrum in […]
April 12, 2016 04:00 PM | Permalink | Read in PDF Click on charts for high quality version. All Americans pay taxes. Most of us pay federal and […]
April 11, 2016 12:31 PM | Permalink | Read in PDF This CTJ report illustrates how profitable Fortune 500 companies in a range of sectors of the U.S. economy have been remarkably successful in manipulating the tax system to avoid paying even a dime of tax on billions of dollars in U.S. profits. These 15 […]
April 7, 2016 05:42 PM | Permalink | Read this report in PDF. Recent revelations that a Panamanian law firm helped set up more than 200,000 offshore shell corporations has heightened awareness of the vast amount of income and wealth flowing into tax and secrecy havens worldwide. The countries through which this firm helped funnel […]
April 7, 2016 12:21 PM | Permalink | Read this in PDF. Corporate income taxes in the United States as a share of the economy are significantly less than the average among developed nations, according to an analysis of the most recent data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Data from the […]
April 7, 2016 11:41 AM | Permalink | Read this in PDF. The most recent data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) show that the United States is one of the least taxed developed nations. A tally of all taxes collected at the federal, state and local levels reveals based on 2014 […]