question / pregunta:
The Occupy Boston Tax Day Working Group needs info on the tax payment history and practices of these companies:
Fidelity
State Street
USB/Deuetche/JPMorgan
GE Capital
Bank of America
How much they paid, as well as unusual ways of avoiding taxes, the carried interest loophole, benefits of the bush tax cuts to the wealthy, how much they paid tax lawyers and accountants. Thanks.
Tax information
Hi Aria--
I don't know if you have access to academic library sources, but I ran a corporate affiliations search on Lexis Nexis that gave me some information, (just make sure that you give proper and complete named information about these companies or else you will come up with too many results!)
Orbis also is very good for this kind of information and so is Frost and Sullivan. They provide all revenue and tax information as well as a list of primary holders and their information. I think that the question is also not as straightforward as it seems-- I would maybe look at the hard numbers from Orbis and Lexis Nexis and then read a bit about tax loopholes and such and then try to consolidate this information into a single document. For information on loopholes, I think that the more current economic journal sources will work: Business Insider, Economist, and so on.
I hope this is helpful! Let me know if you cannot get access to subscription services and I can try another approach.