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Eleven US corporations including GE, Boeing and Wells Fargo together reported $62 billion in domestic profits in 2010 while paying a negative 3.6 percent federal tax rate, according to data released yesterday by Citizens for Tax Justice.

The Washington-based interest group, which is backed by labor unions, hopes the data will help persuade President Obama to abandon his efforts to rewrite the corporate tax code without collecting additional revenue from corporations.

Included in the report is GE, whose CEO, Jeffrey Immelt, serves on Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.

Citizens for Tax Justice said GE’s effective tax rate during 2010 was a negative 64 percent on $5.1 billion in US profits.

“GE is fully compliant with all tax laws,” the company said.

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