Bonjour à toutes nos lectrices et à tous nos lecteurs, voici une information américaine qui amène à relativiser le discours pro-RSE de nombre d'entreprises. Il est intéressantde relever que le comportement des entreprises au regard de l'impôt- de cette participation de toutes et tous au fonctionnement de l'État et de la société civile en général - est assez peu étudié dans le domaine de la RSE, et ce contrairement à d'autres thématiques d'"évitements de législation" qui font aujourd'hui l'objet de critiques et de dénonciation (pensons au contournement des règles de droit du travail par exemple).
Thirty large and profitable U.S. corporations paid no income taxes in 2008 through 2010, said a study on Thursday that arrives as Congress faces rising demands for tax reform, but seems unable or unwilling to act. Pepco Holdings, a Washington, D.C.-area power company, had the lowest effective tax rate, at negative 57.6 percent, among the 280 Fortune 500 companies studied. The statutory U.S. corporate income tax rate is 35 percent, one of the highest in the world, but over the 2008-2010 period, very few of the companies studied paid it, said the report. The average effective tax rate for the companies over the period was 18.5 percent, said Citizens for Tax Justice and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, both think tanks. Their report also listed General Electric Co, Paccar Inc, PG&E Corp, Computer Sciences Corp and NiSource Inc as among the 30 that paid no taxes. All 280 corporations examined were profitable over the period. Corporations will say rightly that the loopholes that let them slash their taxes were perfectly legal, the report said. "But that does not mean that low-tax corporations bear no responsibility ... The laws were not enacted in a vacuum; they were adopted in response to relentless corporate lobbying, threats and campaign support" the report said. Pour lire la suite, cliquez ici.
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