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« on: April 27, 2012, 10:39:25 am » |
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GE Filed 57,000-Page Tax Return, Paid No Taxes on $14 Billion in Profits
1:11 PM, NOV 17, 2011 • BY JOHN MCCORMACK
General Electric, one of the largest corporations in America, filed a whopping 57,000-page federal tax return earlier this year but didn't pay taxes on $14 billion in profits. The return, which was filed electronically, would have been 19 feet high if printed out and stacked.
The fact that GE paid no taxes in 2010 was widely reported earlier this year, but the size of its tax return first came to light when House budget committee chairman Paul Ryan (R, Wisc.) made the case for corporate tax reform at a recent townhall meeting. "GE was able to utilize all of these various loopholes, all of these various deductions--it's legal," Ryan said. Nine billion dollars of GE's profits came overseas, outside the jurisdiction of U.S. tax law. GE wasn't taxed on $5 billion in U.S. profits because it utilized numerous deductions and tax credits, including tax breaks for investments in low-income housing, green energy, research and development, as well as depreciation of property.
"I asked the GE tax officer, 'How long was your tax form?'" Ryan said. "He said, 'Well, we file electronically, we don't measure in pages.'" Ryan asked for an estimate, which came back at a stunning 57,000 pages. When Ryan relayed the story at the townhall meeting in Janesville, there were audible gasps from the crowd.
Ken Kies, a tax lawyer who represents GE, confirmed to THE WEEKLY STANDARD the tax return would have been 57,000 pages had it been filed on paper. The size of GE's tax return has more than doubled in the last five years. High income, no taxes |
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Kyle Ricky
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« Reply #1 on: April 27, 2012, 12:06:51 pm » |
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This is the company that Obama supports. He is buddies with the CEO. I wonder how much they paid into the Obama campaign.
Didn't GE just send thousands of jobs to china as well? And Obama supports them! What a douchenozzle.
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« Reply #2 on: April 27, 2012, 01:03:01 pm » |
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It's all legal and majority of those tax loopholes came about through the eat the rich based tax policy. Ken kies may be A tax Lawyer that represents GE but I bet they got an office building of lawyers working year round on Tax planning.
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It is said that branches draw their life from the vine. Each is separate yet all are one as they share one life giving stem . The Bible tells us we are called to a similar union in life, our lives with the life of God. We are incorporated into him; made sharers in his life. Apart from this union we can do nothing.
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« Reply #3 on: April 27, 2012, 01:35:15 pm » |
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Evil corporate bastards need to burn in hell
/du mode
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"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." --Norman Thomas, 1944
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Kyle Ricky
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« Reply #4 on: April 27, 2012, 01:37:37 pm » |
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Evil corporate bastards need to burn in hell
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GE isn't an evil corporation because they donate to the obama campaign / douchenozzle mode |
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« Reply #5 on: April 27, 2012, 01:38:13 pm » |
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We need a list of "good" corporations, and evil ones...
Like
CPB
NPR
GM
Fannie
Freddie
PP
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There were only two options for gender. At last count there are at least 12, according to libs. By that standard, I'm a male lesbian.
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« Reply #6 on: April 27, 2012, 01:39:12 pm » |
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Exxon Mobil uses the same tax code as General Electric but if you listen to Obama, someonehow Exxon is guilty of abusing "tax loopholes".
Bullshit.
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« Reply #7 on: April 27, 2012, 01:44:45 pm » |
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This isn't the first time democrats have used this BS to raise taxes. Remember, "Read my lips, no new taxes." and then they used that to hang him. Well, the deal was that if Bush #1 would raise taxes, the democrats agreed to balance the budget. Mr. Bush #1 didn't raise taxes but he did close some loop holes that were supposed to make the democrats happy and in return....THEY DIDN'T BALANCE THE BUDGET..
...and the loop holes GE is using look like democrat created ones to me.
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“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism’, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” - Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948
"America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within." Stalin
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Kyle Ricky
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« Reply #8 on: April 27, 2012, 01:49:19 pm » |
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We need a list of "good" corporations, and evil ones...
Like
CPB
NPR
GM
Fannie
Freddie
PP
etc.
All the good companies will be the ones who donate to the obama campaign. |
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« Reply #9 on: April 27, 2012, 05:08:27 pm » |
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Exxon Mobil uses the same tax code as General Electric but if you listen to Obama, someonehow Exxon is guilty of abusing "tax loopholes".
Bullshit.
Exxon paid more income taxes than any other corporation. In fact, the top three are Exxon, Chevron and Conoco. Exxon paid 27 billion for an effective rate of over 40%. Seems more than fair to me. I think we have some lying politicians and liberals in the media that are carrying Obama's water. |
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« Reply #10 on: April 27, 2012, 05:14:30 pm » |
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Hypocritical on GE's part when other corporations pay their taxes. Sounds like crony capitalism.
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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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« Reply #11 on: April 27, 2012, 05:30:13 pm » |
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This is the company that Obama supports. He is buddies with the CEO. I wonder how much they paid into the Obama campaign.
Didn't GE just send thousands of jobs to china as well? And Obama supports them! What a douchenozzle.
Yes...and the biggest irony is that the CEO was also Obama's big-shot Jobs Czar at the same time he was stiffing the IRS and shipping those jobs overseas. |
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Kyle Ricky
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« Reply #12 on: April 28, 2012, 05:58:34 am » |
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Yes...and the biggest irony is that the CEO was also Obama's big-shot Jobs Czar at the same time he was stiffing the IRS and shipping those jobs overseas.
That shows how inept Obama is. It is nothing but  |
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