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Close Corporate Tax Loopholes

California has created a two-tiered tax system. While working people pay their fair share, the wealthiest people and corporations exploit tax loopholes to skip out on paying billions of dollars every year.

Close corporate tax loopholes

California has created a two-tiered tax system. While working people pay their fair share, the wealthiest people and corporations exploit tax loopholes to skip out on paying billions of dollars every year.

This is money that should go to our schools, healthcare, and infrastructure. Our recent report shows how wealthy commercial property owners – including Donald Trump himself – have avoided paying taxes on what their properties are actually worth, collectively costing California $243 billion since 2012.

When corporations don’t pay their fair share, everyday Californians are left to pick up the tab, and cities and counties are forced to push taxes, impact fees, and service charges onto residents, making California’s affordability crisis even worse.

Tom is going to close these corporate loopholes, and raise $20 billion of new revenue each year to fund things like education, healthcare, childcare, and home care, all without charging working people a penny.

Close the Trump Tax Loophole

  • We will reform the commercial side of Prop. 13 to end this corporate tax break that lets the wealthiest property owners, like Donald Trump, avoid paying taxes based on what their skyscrapers, golf courses, and tech campuses are actually worth.
  • Stop letting some of the most valuable companies in the world get away with paying taxes on 1970s property values.

Close the Water’s Edge loophole and level the playing field for local businesses

  • While small businesses in California pay taxes on everything they earn, multinational giants use this loophole to legally hide their profits in offshore tax havens.
  • Tom will end this practice and make sure big corporations pay their fair share just like everyone else.

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Download the Trump Tax Loophole PDF

What Is California’s Trump Tax Loophole?

Corporations and Billionaires Like Me Should Pay More Taxes

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