Obama Offers To Cut Corporate Tax Rate To 28%

By JACKIE CALMES, New York Times
Tue, 02/21/2012 - 10:02pm

Corporate Tax Rate

Republicans and business groups complain that the 35 percent corporate tax rate is among the highest in the world, leaving American companies at a disadvantage.

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