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News Release | Illinois PIRG | Budget

Offshore Tax Havens Cost Average Illinois Taxpayers $508 a Year, Each Illinois Small Business $2,556, New Study Finds

With tax day approaching, a new study released by Illinois PIRG found that the average Illinois taxpayer in 2011 would have to shoulder an extra $508 tax burden make up for revenue lost from corporations and wealthy individuals shifting income to offshore tax havens. The report “Picking up the Tab” also found that to cover the cost of the corporate abuse of tax havens in 2011, small businesses in Illinois would have to foot a bill of $2,556 on average.

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News Release | Illinois PIRG | Tax

Loopholes for Sale: Campaign Contributions by Corporate Tax Dodgers

A new report by Illinois PIRG and Citizens for Tax Justice (CTJ) found that thirty unusually aggressive tax dodging corporations have made campaign contributions to 524 (98 percent) sitting members of Congress, and disproportionately to the leadership of both parties and to key committee members.

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News Release | Illinois PIRG | Budget

Amendment Passes to Crack Down on Offshore Tax Cheats

A statement from Illinois PIRG on the passage of the Senate Amendment 1818, introduced by Senators Levin, Conrad, and Whitehouse to the Transportation Bill, which will stop foreign financial institutions in places like the Cayman Islands from aiding U.S. tax cheats.

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News Release | Illinois PIRG | Budget

Facebook’s Tax Dodge Stands to Make Billions for Company and Zuckerberg

U.S. Senator Carl Levin isn’t necessarily the man you’d look to for the latest news about Facebook. However, today he broke some shocking news on the Senate floor about special tax favors that Facebook and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, will enjoy at great cost to the U.S. Treasury.

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News Release | Illinois PIRG | Budget

Thirty Fortune 500 Companies Paid More to Lobby Congress Than Taxes

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

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News Release | Illinois PIRG | Budget, Tax

Unlikely Allies Uncover $1 Trillion in Savings for Super Committee

As the Congressional “Super Committee” begins its search for $1.5 trillion in deficit reduction, a new study released today by the Illinois Public Interest Research Group (Illinois PIRG) and the National Taxpayers Union (NTU) provides the panel with a great place to start: more than $1 trillion of spending cuts with appeal from across the political spectrum.