30 U.S. Corporations Pay No Income Taxes

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Thirty large and profitable U.S. corporations paid no income taxes in 2008 through 2010, said a study on Thursday that arrives as Congress faces rising demands for tax reform but seems unable or unwilling to act.

Pepco Holdings Inc, a Washington-area power company, had the lowest effective tax rate at negative 57.6 percent, among the 280 Fortune 500 companies studied.

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30 U.S. Corporations Pay No Income Taxes

The statutory U.S. corporate income tax rate is 35 percent, one of the highest in the world, but over the 2008-2010 period, very few of the companies studied paid it, according to the report.

The average effective tax rate for the companies over t...

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