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Submitted by BuzzFlash on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 5:59pm.
PAUL BUCHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT
My first pass through the stressful 1040 process made it clear that I will owe a lot of money again this year, and that I can't avoid it without cheating, which I am opposed to for reasons of ethics and timidity.
So to get my mind off the unpleasantness, I turned on the news. A report states that Caterpillar threatens to leave Illinois because of a 2% increase in the state tax rate, which according to a spokesman would burden the company with an additional $40 million tax bill. It just so happens that members of US Uncut Chicago have been doing research on corporate taxes for PayUpNow.org. "To the files!," I exclaimed to myself, happy to take my mind off my own problems.
I went to the SEC website and looked up Caterpillar's 10-K, which would show their income and tax records in recent years. The company made pre-tax income of $3.75 billion in 2010. The Illinois state tax rate of 4.8% would mean a state tax of $180 million.