The Great Corporate Tax Dodge

Of the ten companies listed above, only Home Depot has not set up an offshore subsidiary to avoid paying its taxes.

They are truly in the minority. In all, 83 of the 100 biggest corporations in America have set up offshore tax shelters, costing the rest of us as much as $100 billion a year!  

President Obama has proposed a budget that invests in many of America's priorities, which includes education, health care, modern infrastructure and middle-class tax relief. His budget will also close the loopholes that allow corporations to set up offshore tax havens, and now it’s in the hands of Congress.

Please sign our Tax Day Declaration telling Congress to close these loopholes.

TAX DAY DECLARATION

Dear Congress:

As taxpayers, we foot the bill when large corporations skip out on their taxes by setting up offshore havens in places like the Cayman Islands.

This tax day, we’re saying, “No more!”

The president has proposed a budget that will close corporate tax havens. The budget is now in your hands, and we call upon you to close these offshore tax havens once and for all.

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They're raising your taxes by $600

Did you know that more than 80 percent of America's biggest banks and corporations, including some of those we bailed out, don't pay their taxes?

Instead, they park their money in offshore tax havens like the Cayman Islands. As a result, the average Ohio household, a.k.a. you and me, is paying $600 a year to cover for $100 billion they don't pay.

Why should we have to pick up the tab for tax dodgers? Sign our Tax Day Declaration and tell Congress to close the corporate tax loopholes.

Petition Text TAX DAY DECLARATION Dear Member of Congress: When large corporations skip out on their taxes by moving their “headquarters” to tax havens like the Cayman Islands or shifting profits overseas, we the taxpayers are the ones who pick up the tab. Why should we have to cover the tax burden of tax-dodging banks and corporations? Your colleagues, Sen. Carl Levin and Rep. Lloyd Doggett, have introduced the Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act -- S. 506 and H.R. 1265 -- to crack down on corporations that use tax havens. We call upon you to support this measure. The time for reform is now!

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Safe Food, Healthy Kids

Petition Text Dear USDA Secretary Vilsack, More than 23,000 kids got sick from food served in schools between 1998 and 2007. We should make sure that our kids are getting safe, healthy food in school by: · Requiring meat inspections before the meat is ground. · Adopting science-based safety standards for all school lunch meat. · Notifying schools directly about recalls, and creating a national database to help school officials avoid food companies with a history of safety problems.

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Stop our tax dollars from subsidizing the BP spill

BP announced $6.1 billion profits in April for its first quarter -- double last year's number and roughly six times the amount it has spent on the cleanup so far. 

Over the next ten years, the oil and gas industry will receive $40 billion in subsidies -- courtesy of the American taxpayer.

By improving the American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid can stop sending our tax dollars to subsidize Big Oil's mistakes.

The Senate votes this week, and we are working with our federation to gather signatures from Americans across the country, demanding that Sen. Reid hold BP accountable.

Sign the petition below to make sure that BP is paying for spill clean up.

Petition Text Dear Senator, I don't want my tax dollars going to big oil companies. There's no better time than now to end corporate welfare to companies that make huge profits and huge mistakes. We urge you to address this injustice in the American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act. Sincerely,

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