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Representation Without Taxation

Fortune 500 Companies that Spend Big on Lobbying and Avoid Taxes

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Thirty Fortune 500 Companies Paid More to Lobby Congress than they Did in Federal Income Taxes

With the second anniversary approaching of the Supreme Court’s decision in the Citizens United case – which opened the floodgates to corporate spending on elections – MASSPIRG and Citizens for Tax Justice reveal 30 corporations that spent more to lobby Congress than they did in taxes.

Issue | Tax

Close Corporate Tax Loopholes

No company should be able to game the tax system to avoid paying what it legitimately owes. And, yet, establishing shell companies in offshore havens for the purpose of tax avoidance is becoming more the rule than the exception for at least 83 of the nation's top 100 publicly traded companies.

News Release | MASSPIRG | Budget, Tax

Report Card Grades States on Economic Development Subsidies

In new report Money for Something, a 51-state “report card” released today by Good Jobs First, Massachusetts ranked 43 out 51  in performance and job quality standards in economic development subsidies.   

Report | Good Jobs First | Budget, Tax

Money for Something

States are spending billions of dollars per year on corporate tax credits, cash grants and other economic development subsidies that often require little if any job creation and lack wage and benefit standards covering workers at subsidized companies. These are the key findings of Money for Something: Job Creation and Job Quality Standards in State Economic Development Subsidy Programs, a 51-state “report card” study published today by Good Jobs First, a non-profit, non-partisan research center based in Washington, DC

News Release | MASSPIRG | Budget, Tax

Report Shows Corporations Paying Few State Taxes

A comprehensive new study, from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, profiles the 265 consistently profitable Fortune 500 corporations finding that 68 companies paid no state corporate income tax in at least one of the last three years and 20 of these corporations averaged a tax rate of zero or less during the 2008-2010 period.

News Release | MASSPIRG | Budget, Tax

New State Spending Website Launched

MASSPIRG joined government leaders today as they officially unveiled their new, easy-to-use comprehensive state spending website at the State House Library.

News Release | MASSPIRG | Budget, Tax

Supercommittee Squanders Opportunity to Cut Waste

After the Congressional “Supercommittee” announced its failure to agree on at least $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction, the MASSPIRG and National Taxpayers Union (NTU), who jointly authored a report on deficit reduction earlier this year, released the following joint statement.

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Keep Mass On Track

MASSPIRG is working on Beacon Hill and in Washington, D.C., to ensure that we fully fund public transportation in the commonwealth and across the country, expand transit options for everyone, and prioritize a “fix-it-first” approach for maintaining our transit infrastructure.

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