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Tax season is upon us–and by us, I mean everyone who is not Amazon, Netflix, Chevron, or pharmaceutical manufacturer Eli Lilly and Co., because they are among the 60 or so corporations that paid zero dollars in federal income taxes on the billions of dollars in profits they earned in 2018. 又到了所有美国人交税的季节，不过这个“所有人”要去掉亚马逊、网飞、雪佛龙，以及制药制造商伊利莉莉等60多家企业，他们在2018年收入几十亿美元却免交联邦所得税。 That’s according to a new analysis, released today by the Washington-based think tank Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) and first reported by The Center for Public Integrity. After analyzing the 2018 financial filings of the country’s largest 560 publicly held companies, they found that companies like Amazon and Netflix were “able to zero out their federal income taxes on $79 billion in U.S. pretax income,” thanks to the tax overhaul bill pushed through Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump. 根据一项最新的研究，最早发布在美国公共廉政中心，今天由位于华盛顿的智库税收与经济政策研究所(ITEP)发布，在分析了最大的560上市公司，他们发现像亚马逊和网飞这样的公司“美国税前收入790亿美元联邦所得税中的支出为0”，这一切都要感谢由国会通过的这些税法，以及川普总统将其签署入法。 | 
