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Re:Uber used 50 Dutch shell companies to dodge taxes on $6B ... by yojo on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @11:07PM (#27137995)
The economist has a nice chart on this. The US has a lower share of taxes paid by corporations relative to other sources than our peers.

https://archive.is/ND3cQ

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Re:Uber used 50 Dutch shell companies to dodge taxes on $6B ... by granzymes on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @11:23PM (#27138060)
At 24.6%, the US had an effective average corporate tax rate somewhat in the middle of the pack in 2019. In 2017, at 37.5%, it was the second highest in the world, so which year you look at is very important.

It's also important to realize that a large portion (~10%) of individual income taxes are actually from pass-through business income.

https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=CTS_ETR

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Re:Uber used 50 Dutch shell companies to dodge taxes on $6B ... by oblio on Thursday May 13, 2021 @06:46AM (#27140659)
Isn't 2017 an outlier? Didn't Trump pass a one time law allowing for repatriation of profits at a lower tax rate? That's not sustainable.
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Re:Uber used 50 Dutch shell companies to dodge taxes on $6B ... by granzymes on Friday May 14, 2021 @10:52PM (#27161878)
TCJA took effect in 2018.
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