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List of some of the 10 worst corporate income tax avoiders.
1)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Exxon Mobil made $19 billion in profits in 2009.&nbsp; Exxon not only paid no federal income taxes, it actually received a $156 million rebate from the IRS, according to its SEC filings.&nbsp; (Source: Exxon Mobil&rsquo;s 2009 shareholder report filed with the SEC&nbsp;here.)
2)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bank of America received a $1.9 billion tax refund from the IRS last year, although it made $4.4 billion in profits and received a bailout from the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department of nearly $1 trillion.&nbsp;(Source: Forbes.com&nbsp;here, ProPublica&nbsp;here&nbsp;and Treasuryhere.)
3)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Over the past five years, while General Electric made $26 billion in profits in the United States, it received a $4.1 billion refund from the IRS. (Source: Citizens for Tax Justice&nbsp;hereand The New York Times&nbsp;here.&nbsp; Note: despite rumors to the contrary, the Times has stood by its story.)
4)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Chevron received a $19 million refund from the IRS last year after it made $10 billion in profits in 2009. &nbsp;(Source: See 2009 Chevron annual report&nbsp;here.&nbsp; Note 15 on page FS-46 of this report shows a U.S. federal income tax liability of $128 million, but that it was able to defer $147 million for a U.S. federal income tax liability of $-19 million)
5)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Boeing, which received a $30 billion contract from the Pentagon to build 179 airborne tankers, got a $124 million refund from the IRS last year.&nbsp;.&nbsp; (Source: Paul Buchheit, professor, DePaul University,&nbsp;here&nbsp;and Citizens for Tax Justice&nbsp;here.)
6)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Valero Energy, the 25th largest company in America with $68 billion in sales last year received a $157 million tax refund check from the IRS and, over the past three years, it received a $134 million tax break from the oil and gas manufacturing tax deduction. (Source: the company&rsquo;s 2009 annual report, pg. 112,&nbsp;here.)
7)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Goldman Sachs in 2008 only paid 1.1 percent of its income in taxes even though it earned a profit of $2.3 billion and received an almost $800 billion from the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury Department.&nbsp; (Source: Bloomberg News&nbsp;here, ProPublica&nbsp;here, Treasury Department&nbsp;here.)
8)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Citigroup last year made more than $4 billion in profits but paid no federal income taxes. It received a $2.5 trillion bailout from the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury. (Source: Paul Buchheit, professor, DePaul University,&nbsp;here, ProPublica&nbsp;here, Treasury Department&nbsp;here.)
9)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ConocoPhillips, the fifth largest oil company in the United States, made $16 billion in profits from 2006 through 2009, but received $451 million in tax breaks through the oil and gas manufacturing deduction.&nbsp; (Sources: Profits can be found&nbsp;here.&nbsp; The deduction can be found on the company&rsquo;s 2010 SEC 10-K report to shareholders on 2009 finances, pg. 127,here)
10)&nbsp; Over the past five years, Carnival Cruise Lines made more than $11 billion in profits, but its federal income tax rate during those years was just 1.1 percent.&nbsp; (Source: The New York Times&nbsp;here)

Our country &amp;amp; our world can no longer afford to be run by these corporations!&nbsp;