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General Electric Cites its “Deferred” (Not Yet Paid) Taxes and Taxes Paid to Foreign Governments, Offers No Evidence It Paid More in U.S. Corporate Income Taxes
In response to CTJ’s 
recent finding that GE had an effective federal corporate income tax rate of just 2.3 percent over ten years, GE’s press office issued a short statement designed to divert attention from its tax-avoiding ways. GE has nothing to say to contradict the figures we cite from its own annual reports.
A short report from CTJ responds to each of GE’s claims and provides all of the numbers used to calculate GE’s ten-year corporate income tax rate of 2.3 percent.