Chart: Who's Bearing the Tax Burden? - National - The Atlantic Wire

Chart: Who's Bearing the Tax Burden? - National - The Atlantic Wire

Investigative Reporting Workshop

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Chart: Who's Bearing the Tax Burden?

BY ELI ROSENBERG11:40 AM ET

It's April 15, tax day in spirit if not in practice this year. The chart above, put together by the Investigative Reporting Workshop, shows that the gap between the share of taxes paid by individuals and the share paid by corporations over time. By now you've probably read or heard about the big story in the New York Times about how G.E. paid far below the putative 35 percent corporate tax rate in the United States on its $14.2 billion in global profits last year. Similarly, maybe you checked out David Cay Johnson's excellent "9 Things the Rich Don't Want You to Know About Taxes" in Willamette Week from