Internal Revenue Service

Corporate Tax Avoidance Explosion: Reagan Loopholes Slash Corporate Revenue

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Reagan’s 1981 tax cuts create massive corporate tax loopholes through permissive depreciation rules and reduced rates, causing corporate tax revenue to plummet from 25% of federal revenue in the 1950s to just 6.2% by 1983. The tax law allows corporations to slash or erase tax obligations …

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