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mahatmakanejeeves

(64,670 posts) Sun Sep 25, 2022, 08:16 AM Sep 2022

Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway Could Be Among Top Payers of New Minimum Tax

A handful of companies, including Amazon, would have paid half of the estimated $32 billion a new corporate tax would have generated if it had been in effect last year

wsj.com
Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway Could Be Among Top Payers of New Minimum Tax
Researchers analyzed securities filings to determine what companies would have paid if the tax had been in place last year and found just six

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Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway Could Be Among Top Payers of New Minimum Tax (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2022 OP

Oh, no! I hope they don't go broke. Midnight Writer Sep 2022 #1

They'll just pass it along to the consumer Tansy_Gold Sep 2022 #2

Midnight Writer

(23,958 posts)

1. Oh, no! I hope they don't go broke.

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Sun Sep 25, 2022, 02:31 PM

Sep 2022

Tansy_Gold

(18,167 posts)

2. They'll just pass it along to the consumer

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Mon Sep 26, 2022, 04:53 PM

Sep 2022

Tax the rich, not the corporations. The rich can't pass it along. Take it right away from them and see how they like it.

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