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What Large Corporations Pay in Income Tax (podcast)

Posted on April 15, 2016
The corporate federal income tax rate tops out at 35 percent. But what do corporations actually pay? We recently reviewed federal corporate income tax, and how much of it U.S. corporations paid. Listen to Jessica Lucas-Judy, a director in our Strategic Issues team, talk about how corporate income taxes work, why corporations might pay lower or no taxes, and what other types of taxes corporations might be paying.
Corporate Income Tax
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