Trump’s Tax Cut Delivers at Least $65 Billion Windfall to Corporations

It'll trickle down, guys. Should start seeing cheaper prices next century.

a friendly reminder that corporations are only taxed on the profits left over after all of their dividends and business expansion efforts are expensed. These businesses could not find any way to account for these funds other than telling the government "We don't have a use for it," no matter how many accounting tricks they use (IE: amortization schedules of property, plant, and equipment to spread out or frontload/backload the costs of facilities to minimize their tax buurden), *That* is the pool which is subject to taxation, and the GOP allowed corporations to hoard an additional $65B instead of contributing it to the general welfare through taxation.

>Nearly a dozen of the 50 biggest US-listed companies attributed a drop in federal cash income taxes last year as a direct result of Trump’s $3.4 trillion sweeping tax law, according to a Bloomberg analysis of regulatory filings. In all, annual corporate tax revenues dropped by $65 billion following the law’s passage. >Amazon.com Inc. was among the clearest winners in the wake of the new tax law, owing $2.8 billion in federal cash income taxes in 2025 — down from more than $7 billion in the two preceding years — despite reporting higher US revenue last year. The company said in an annual regulatory filing the law “significantly decreased” the company’s cash taxes last year and expects it to again in 2026. >Eli Lilly & Co., the pharmaceutical giant behind the popular weight loss injectable Zepbound, paid about $500 million less in federal cash income taxes last year despite a roughly $13 billion increase in US-based income, according to an annual regulatory filing. RTX Corp., the aerospace and defense company, said in a July earnings call the “headwinds from tariffs” would be offset by lower federal cash taxes. >Federal cash tax payments from Verizon Communications Inc. and AT&T Inc. dropped by roughly half in 2025, which the companies attributed in part to the new tax law. Verizon in a July earnings call said it expected a $1.5 billion to $2 billion tax benefit from the law in 2025 and “significant” savings this year. AT&T in a January earnings call said the company expects to cash taxes to remain around $1 billion to $1.5 billion through 2028, on par with last year. >In addition to Amazon, tech giants Meta Platforms, Inc. and Palantir Technologies Inc. in annual filings disclosed they will benefit from the accelerated and catchup R&D deduction. Meta’s total cash taxes dropped to $7.6 billion in 2025 from $10.6 billion in 2024, as the company recognized “significant cash tax savings,” thanks to the law.

That's one-third of (a couple months of) an Iran War, right there... But, actually, you working and middle class folks need to give up your health insurance so we can fund that illegal , already-lost war without dipping into billionaires' pockets. ...

And almost everyone I know is losing their health coverage, what little they had.

Article without paywall: https://archive.is/CavGf

1. Increase costs 2. Decrease revenue 3. Walk away leaving taxpayers holding the bag Art of the deal. A mealy mouthed orange rapists promised it, and 78 million Americans enthusiastically voted for it.

Amazing how they’ve passed none of that on and continued raising prices….

Remember Americans: While you starve and lose your shirt corporations are doing great.

Corporate profits reached roughly 16.2% of national income by the end of 2024, up from a 13.9% average during 2010–2019. As of mid-2025, the corporate profit margin after tax was 10.97%, with some sectors seeing higher figures. According to Americans for Tax Fairness, companies like Tesla paid 1.5% and T-Mobile paid 0.4%. Historical Examples: In 2021, Ford paid an effective rate of 1%, and Chevron paid 1.8%.

It is incredibly revealing that RTX Corp explicitly told investors that these tax cuts would "offset" the headwinds from the administration's tariffs. This confirms what many suspected: the tax cuts aren't for "growth" or "innovation". they are a massive subsidy to protect billionaire-owned corporations from the consequences of the administration's own trade wars. Meanwhile, the average consumer pays the full price of the tariffs with no tax windfall to balance it out.

Thanks Obama? 

What's the theory called where the gushing-up supersedes the trickle-down? We will give you Billions today if you give us back Millions at some unspecified time in the future.

That list of companies - they are the dog shit I would love to get away from. Trust when I say my dependence to them will dwindle. F the monopolies. F the welfare queen corporations that pay shit wages and treat their employees as expendable.

Yeah, $35 a pound for a steak. Definitely winning bigly

Which will be turned into stock buybacks and executive bonuses. It will not create jobs or raise wages for anyone but the ultrawealthy.

You need insulin or food? Too bad, should have been a billionaire.

'But Democrats support genocide!'

As is (Republican) tradition

I'm sure they'll use that money to make America a better place. /s

Just assume Trump and his party are running the government like a business. He offers his services, like insider information or protection from prosecution in matters of some certain files, to the shareholders for believing in him and investing in his ideas. And of course there is a payout, like any good business. And Trump's polit-business of being a "president" is also quite profitable to him and his family and "friends".

And all of them are doing record layoffs

That’s it? Rookie numbers.

People are people too! Citizens, unite!

Well they wrote it. Why wouldn’t it be a surprise.

if you watched any of the OBBB hearing you already knew this

So it pays to be a trump sponsor.

Never tell me that people don’t deserve college debt relief again. There is no excuse for $65 billion to corporations in this economy.

Boycott anybody who took a dollar from this guy and see how fast they returning the money. Voting matters but voting with your wallet makes miracles.

We should team this up with extra spending to tackle the deficit. That's how this works right? Fiscal responsibility

But let’s cut healthcare to pay for the war: https://www.axios.com/2026/03/30/gop-health-care-pay-iran-war

It was over 2T, so where is the rest of the money?

Awesome! New lower prices for consumers now.

Anyone else at the point where they're doing French Revolution talk in public?

I f****** hate this man. Pure, unabashed loathing. He's just completely evil.

Something tells me I'm never getting my DOGE or tariff checks. At least the corporations are taken care of. /s

Look at all these gladhanders, these palm greasers.

I always wonder why poor as dirt people in the middle of nowhere USA vote for Republicans when they get absolutely nothing from them.... Then they turn out to use welfare the most.

I only owed $7 this year!

Glad those big corps are getting the money they need /s

And making our great grandkids pay for it far into the next century.

Hard working Americans will never see any benefits from this nor will we ever see this “trickle” down to make our lives better. All hail our corporate overlords...the true rulers of this nation.

Don’t worry sick Americans. These guys are going to now help with those healthcare subsidies assuming you still have a job not replaced by AI or their stellar mismanagement. Nothing is free.. except all those burdensome taxes for the wealthy.

The trickle down comes as severance. Your job has been moved to India or replaced by AI. Think of the shareholders.

for $100 billion you could make every public university in America tuition-free.

Sure would’ve done a lot for paying this war bill.

Corporate greed wins again

This is a terrible article for so many reasons