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Study says big firms avoid state taxes

By Beth Healy
Globe Staff / December 8, 2011
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Sixty-eight out of 265 Fortune 500 companies across the country paid no state corporate income taxes in at least one of the last three years. The companies included in the study - including EMC Corp. and Raytheon Co. of Massachusetts - earned a combined $1.33 trillion in profits over the last three tax years and sheltered at least half of their profits from state taxes, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy and MassPIRG.

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