âThe English and French gentry used patch boxes in which to keep beauty patches as well as patches to cover pox scars.â 2 A part of something marked out from the rest by a particular characteristic.
A corporate tax, also called corporation tax or company tax, is a tax on the income or capital of corporations or analogous legal entities. Many countries impose such taxes at the national level, and a similar tax may be imposed at state or local levels. The taxes may also be referred to as income tax or capital tax.
In 2008, corporations paid $228,522,752,000 of taxes during the year. This amount was on net income of $1,806,889,716,000. This is an average of $39,082 in taxes paid per corporation for all corporations that filed a return. For corporations that paid taxes, the average tax paid was $71,776.26.