Help us close the corporate tax loopholes
After Governor Patrick files the bill to close corporate
tax loopholes, the bill will get a public hearing before the Joint Legislative
Committee on Revenue. As you might imagine, big businesses will be opposing any
measure to close the tax loopholes. MASSPIRG will present this petition to the
committee as a counterbalance to the overwhelming voice by many of the business
lobbyists.
Petition Text
For too long, a few powerful corporations and industries have gotten away with paying little or no taxes thanks to tax loopholes in the law. Among Massachusetts’ biggest businesses, those with sales over $50 million a year, a third paid just the minimum corporate income tax of $456 last year. By contrast, the Bay State’s average taxpayer paid $3,532 in state income taxes.
All taxpayers, including businesses rely on public infrastructure and services including education, transportation, police, fire, sanitation, parks and recreation, and public health.
Whatever your perspective about the level of taxes, our taxes should be fair. Some taxpayers should not be required to pay more while other businesses pay less through unintended, outdated or unreasonable tax breaks.
We urge you to close the corporate tax
loopholes outlined in the Special Tax Commission’s report, making our tax code
fairer to everyone.


This Thursday is Valentine’s Day, but some powerful
interests have been receiving their gifts for too long; written right into the
Commonwealth’s tax code.