Tax Day 2014: GE's Tax Loopholes and Unemployment Benefits

General Electric

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Thanks to work by Citizens for Tax Justice, this year's Tax Day brings startling numbers about how tax loopholes allowed General Electric to avoid paying billions in taxes: 

Tax loopholes allowed GE to avoid more than $2 billion in taxes last year.

 

By paying its taxes, GE alone could fund a month of the emergency unemployment extension that Congress still hasn't passed.