Tell Congress:
"Make billion-dollar corporations pay their fair share. Implement a minimum 15% tax on U.S. corporations’ offshore profits and a minimum 15% tax on profits billion-dollar corporations report to shareholders here at home."
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John,
We can afford critical investments here at home when billion-dollar corporations and U.S. multinational corporations pay their fair share in taxes.
Last year, President Biden secured a deal with 130 countries to create a global minimum corporate tax rate of 15%, which will help shut down the use of offshore tax havens.1 But Congress has failed to act.
If billion-dollar corporations paid a 15% minimum tax on reported domestic profits and U.S. multinationals paid a 15% minimum tax on offshore profits, we would raise $630 billion in revenue, which can be used to lower costs for working people on everything from health care to child care to housing and more.2
Join CHN and our national allies and demand Congress immediately pass a 15% tax on U.S. corporations’ offshore profits and on profits billion-dollar corporations report to shareholders here at home.
TAKE ACTION
Check out Deborah’s email below to learn more about how major corporations like Amazon and Netflix avoid paying their fair share in taxes, then take action today!
Thank you,
Nicolai Haddal
Field and Events Manager, Coalition on Human Needs
1 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/08/business/oecd-global-minimum-tax.html
2 https://americansfortaxfairness.org/issue/fact-sheet-president-bidens-build-back-better-plan-lowers-costs-families-fully-paid/
-- DEBORAH'S EMAIL--
John,
Did you know that billion-dollar corporations such as Nike, FedEx, Amazon, and Netflix are paying next to nothing in federal income taxes?
Due to a rigged tax system riddled with loopholes, they’re able to pay well below the current 21% domestic corporate tax rate. And, it’s gotten even worse since the 2017 Trump-GOP tax law.
Between 2018 and 2020, FedEx paid $0 in federal income taxes on $8.2 billion in profits (it actually got a tax refund!). Nike paid a measly 3.3% tax rate on $9 billion over those years.1
From 2018 to 2021, Amazon paid just 5.1% in federal income taxes on $78.6 billion in profits while Netflix paid less than 1% on $10.5 billion in profits.2,3
It’s time for billion-dollar corporations to pay their fair share in taxes so we can invest in our future. That’s why the Coalition on Human Needs and our national allies are fighting for a 15% corporate minimum tax on reported domestic profits and a 15% minimum tax on U.S. corporations’ offshore profits.
Sign the petition and demand Congress implement a 15% minimum tax on U.S. corporations’ offshore profits AND on profits billion-dollar corporations report to shareholders here at home.
TAKE ACTION
We can’t let wealthy corporations like Amazon and Netflix continue getting away with paying little to nothing in federal taxes. We need Congress to act!
The average individual federal income tax rate for all taxpayers in 2019 was 13.3%―well above what these giant profitable corporations are paying.4
It’s estimated that a 15% Corporate Profits Minimum Tax on corporations with a billion dollars or more in profits would raise $320 billion over 10 years, and a 15% minimum tax rate on foreign profits of U.S. multinational corporations would net nearly $310 billion.5
That’s $630 billion we can use to invest in lowering prices on health care, child care, homecare, and to create millions of good-paying jobs in our care economy.
Join CHN and our national allies. Sign the petition and demand Congress make billion-dollar corporations pay a minimum 15% tax on reported domestic profits and on offshore profits.
Thank you for fighting for an economy that puts families and working people ahead of billion-dollar corporations.
Deborah Weinstein Executive Director, Coalition on Human Needs
1 https://itep.org/corporate-tax-avoidance-under-the-tax-cuts-and-jobs-act/
2 https://itep.org/amazon-avoids-more-than-5-billion-in-corporate-income-taxes-reports-6-percent-tax-rate-on-35-billion-of-us-income/
3 https://itep.org/netflix-posts-record-profits-federal-tax-rate-of-just-1-percent/
4 https://taxfoundation.org/summary-latest-federal-income-tax-data-2022-update/
5 https://americansfortaxfairness.org/issue/fact-sheet-president-bidens-build-back-better-plan-lowers-costs-families-fully-paid/
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