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Close Corporate Tax Loopholes

Across the country, some of the nation’s best-known companies—including GE, Google and Goldman Sachs—have avoided paying the taxes they owe, costing taxpayers $100 billion last year. We're making corporations pay the taxes they owe.

Issue | Budget, Food, Tax

Stop Subsidizing Obesity

Our tax dollars should only go to things that serve the public good, yet we’re handing out taxpayer subsidies to big agribusinesses to help subsidize junk food.

Report | CoPIRG | Budget, Tax

Toward Common Ground

To break through the ideological divide that has dominated Washington this past year and offer a
pathway to address the nation’s fiscal problems, the National Taxpayer Union and U.S. PIRG joined
together to identify mutually acceptable deficit reduction.

News Release | CoPIRG | Budget, Food, Tax

Representative Jeff Flake Introduces REAPS Act

The introduction of the Reducing the Deficit through Eliminating Agriculture Direct Payment Subsidies Act, or REAPS Act (H.R. 2487) will cut $28 billion over ten years from agriculture subsidies.  This is a first important step away from misguided spending that benefits a narrow set of special interests rather than any rational farm policy or the broader public interest.

Report | CoPIRG | Budget, Financial Reform, Tax

Tax Shell Game

Abuse of tax havens inflicts a price on other American taxpayers, who must pay higher taxes—now or in the future—to cover the government’s revenue shortfall, or must deal with cuts in government services.

Report | CoPIRG | Budget, Tax

Following the Money 2011

Colorado got a “C” when it comes to openness about government spending according to our new report, Following the Money 2011.

News Release | CoPIRG | Budget

CoPIRG Unveils “Gallery of Government Waste” to Showcase Easy Federal Budget Cuts

As the U.S. Senate begins negotiations to stave off a federal government shutdown, the Colorado Public Interest Research Group (CoPIRG) unveils a “Gallery of Government Waste” to highlight easy places to cut in the budget. These cuts are low-hanging fruit and will help bypass the partisan showdown in Washington.   

Report | CoPIRG | Budget, Tax, Transportation

Do Roads Pay for Themselves?

Highways do not – and, except for brief periods in our nation’s history, never have – paid for themselves through the taxes that highway advocates label “user fees.” Yet highway advocates continue to suggest they do in an attempt to secure preferential access to scarce public resources and to shape how those resources are spent.

Media Hit | Budget, Financial Reform, Tax

Watchdog Group says Corporate Tax Avoiders Cost Colorado $1.6 Billion Annually

A consumer watchdog group says nearly two-thirds of corporations pay no federal income taxes at all -- and that saddles individual Colorado taxpayers with an additional tax burden of nearly $500 each year.

Report | CoPIRG | Budget, Tax

Following the Money 2010

The ability to see how government uses the public purse is fundamental to democracy. This report rates the 50 States in how well they provide online access to government spending data.

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