"Just a rough guess, what percent profit on each dollar of sales do you think the average company makes after taxes?”
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It last quite variable by industry.grocery store companies have much smaller margins than Apple. They have one number in their investor statements another in their tax filings.there are many corps that make losses as a tax write-off. You need to filter the data set a bit
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Make a poll "would you turn the universe off to stop suffering if you had the chance?"
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Do you mean what percent profit is actually pocketed? Or what percent profit the company claims in its "official" version? Two very different things -- companies having to pay taxes have every way to cook the books to claim, "poor me, profits are slim" whilst hiding billions.
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