Study: Top 10 American Companies Paid 9% U.S. Tax Rate


While some of America's biggest corporations may complain that they pay too much in taxes, a recent analysis shows that many are actually getting off pretty easy.

According to the financial site NerdWallet, the 10 most profitable U.S. companies paid an average federal tax rate of just 9 percent last year. The group includes heavyweights Exxon Mobil, Apple, Microsoft, JPMorgan Chase and General Electric.

Some of these companies paid more than 9 percent -- JPMorgan earned $26.7 billion in 2011, for example, and paid $3.7 billion of it, or 14 percent, to the federal government -- and some paid less, like Exxon Mobil, which only sent 2 percent of its $73.3 billion earnings to the IRS.

But the 10 companies all paid much less than the nominal corporate tax rate of 35 percent -- a number that investor and tax-the-rich advocate Warren Buffett has dismissed as "a myth," but one that presidential front-runners Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have both proposed to lower.

Here are the top 3 of the ten most profitable U.S. companies with their taxes for last year, both total provision and payments to the U.S. government.  NerdWallet has also created a corporate tax rate tool with this information for 500 American companies.

 

EXXON (XOM)
 

Pre-tax earnings: $73.3 Billion

Tax Provision: $31.1 Billion (42%)

Actual Taxes Paid to U.S. federal government: $1.5 billion (2%)

Exxon paid $1.5 billion to the U.S. federal government in 2011 and deferred paying an additional $1.6 billion.  It paid the majority of its taxes to foreign governments where it operates ($28.8 billion).

CHEVRON (CVX)

Pre-tax earnings: $47.6 Billion

Tax Provision: $20.6 Billion (43%)

Actual Taxes Paid to U.S. federal government: $1.9 Billion (4%)

Chevron paid $1.9 billion to the U.S. federal government in 2011 and deferred paying an additional $877 million.  It paid the majority of its taxes to foreign governments where it operates ($16.5 billion).  Chevron also paid $596 million to state and local government.

APPLE (AAPL)

Pre-tax earnings: $34.2 Billion

Tax Provision: $8.3 Billion (24%)

Actual Taxes Paid to U.S. federal government: $3.9 Billion (11%)

Apple paid $3.9 billion to the U.S. federal government in 2011 and deferred paying an additional $3.0 billion.  It paid $762 million to state and local government, $769 million to foreign governments.

FOR REMAINING COMPANIES PLEASE VISIT: http://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/markets/2012/corporate-taxes-only-9-...http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/254846.html AND http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/08/06/the-appalling-nonsense-of-americas-9-corporate-income-tax-rate/

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