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Winners & Losers in Obama Tax Plan
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The plan would lower the corporate tax rate from the current 35 percent to 28 percent, and manufacturers would receive incentives that could mean an even lower tax rate.
Here are some of the winners and losers:
Likely Winners
Likely "winners" under the Obama plan would be retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores [WMT
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] which now pay close to the top 35 percent rate.
Electronics and electrical equipment companies also pay high effective tax rates, according to Citizens for Tax Justice, a left-leaning tax think tank and activist group.
Other companies already paying close to the 35 percent statutory tax rate, include health insurer UnitedHealth Group [UNH
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Likely Losers
"Losers" might be big multinational companies such as General Electric [GE
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], which can now pare their effective tax rates using tax breaks that let them shift intellectual property and other valuable assets offshore.
(General Electric is a minority shareholder in NBC Universal, CNBC's parent company.)
Other major companies paying a low effective or even negative rate, according to analysis by the group, include Baxter International, Wells Fargo & Co. [WFC
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According to CTJ, information technology, oil and gas, and utilities are among those paying far below the 35 percent rate.
Oil and gas companies in particular are likely to be losers, since the Obama administration wants to cut a major tax deduction now used by the industry.
Manufacturing Wildcard
The administration plan seeks a special 25 percent rate for manufacturing. Details on this are still murky, though an administration official said the new rate seeks to spur research and development and production of clean energy.
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