The 45 Largest US Companies With Stock Market Caps Above $100 Bil Have Consistently Lowered Their Total Consolidated Income Tax Rate Paid From 26.4% in 2014 to 24.4% in 2015 and to 22.9% in 2016 .................................................................................... They Have Done a Great Job Reducing Their Total Income Tax Rate Paid On Their Own and Don't Need the Trump Tax Proposal Reducing Their Total Income Tax Rates By Substantially More .................................................................................... Just 39 of These Companies Had Over $1.5 Trillion of Cumulative Foreign Earnings Mostly at Dec 31, 2016 Which Can Be Cheaply Repatriated Under the Trump Tax Proposal

Based on a review of their audited annual financial statements and income tax footnotes filed with the SEC, below is the Worldwide Consolidated Income Tax Paid and the related Worldwide Consolidated Pretax Income for the most recent three years, as well as the Cumulative Foreign Earnings, mostly at December 31, 2016, which can be repatriated for each of the 45 largest US Companies all with Stock Market Caps Above $100 Bil currently, shown in increasing Worldwide Consolidated Income Tax Rate Paid order: 

										Total				Mostly
										3 Years	Total		3 Years	At 12-31-16
	2016			2015			2014			2014-16	3 Years		2014-16	Cumulative
	WW	2016		WW	2015		WW	2014		WW	2014-16		WW	Foreign
	Income	WW		Income	WW		Income	WW		Income	WW		Effective	Earnings
US Largest Companies	Tax	Pretax		Tax	Pretax		Tax	Pretax		Tax	Pretax		Income	That Can Be
Stock Mkt Caps Above $100 Bil	Paid	Income		Paid	Income		Paid	Income		Paid	Income		Rate Paid	Repatriated
	mils $s	mils $s		mils $s	mils $s		mils $s	mils $s		mils $s	mils $s		mils $s	bils $s
NVIDIA	42	1,905		(17)	743		26	755		51	3,403		1.5%	3.1
Bank of America	1,406	25,153		3,310	22,070		1,296	7,963		6,012	55,186		10.9%	17.8
Amgen	1,225	9,163		1,441	7,978		503	5,585		3,169	22,726		13.9%	36.6
JPMorgan Chase	5,152	34,536		4,927	30,702		4,592	30,699		14,671	95,937		15.3%	38.4
Berkshire Hathaway	6,565	33,667		5,426	34,946		3,302	28,105		15,293	96,718		15.8%	12.4
AT&T	3,532	19,812		2,888	20,692		1,671	10,355		8,091	50,859		15.9%
IBM	1,418	12,330		1,908	15,945		4,500	19,986		7,826	48,261		16.2%	71.4
Johnson & Johnson	3,604	19,803		4,057	19,196		3,799	20,563		11,460	59,562		19.2%	66.2
Apple	9,772	64,089		10,747	61,372		17,739	72,515		38,258	197,976		19.3%	128.7
Alphabet	4,792	24,150		3,561	19,651		3,647	17,259		12,000	61,060		19.7%	60.7
Cisco Systems	2,802	12,287		2,375	12,920		2,243	11,201		7,420	36,408		20.4%	71.1
Citigroup	4,985	21,477		4,646	24,826		3,850	14,701		13,481	61,004		22.1%	47.0
Boeing	1,341	5,568		2,245	7,155		836	7,137		4,422	19,860		22.3%	0.9
Pfizer	1,822	8,351		2,010	8,965		2,799	12,240		6,631	29,556		22.4%	86.0
Microsoft	5,271	23,149		2,621	19,751		6,090	18,507		13,982	61,407		22.8%	142.0
Honeywell	1,525	6,447		1,424	6,586		1,357	5,818		4,306	18,851		22.8%	18.3
General Electric	(1,278)	9,030		6,103	8,186		1,655	10,263		6,480	27,479		23.6%	82.0
Intel	2,088	12,936		3,710	14,212		4,381	15,801		10,179	42,949		23.7%	46.4
QUALCOMM	1,331	3,020		1,419	6,833		1,244	6,487		3,994	16,340		24.4%	39.0
Oracle	2,668	11,517		2,646	11,442		3,444	12,834		8,758	35,793		24.5%	47.5
Coca Cola	2,442	8,136		2,166	9,605		2,241	9,325		6,849	27,066		25.3%	35.5
Comcast	3,864	14,353		4,001	13,372		2,708	12,465		10,573	40,190		26.3%
Procter & Gamble	3,015	13,257		3,380	13,369		3,521	11,012		9,916	37,638		26.3%	49.0
PepsiCo	2,120	8,553		1,981	7,442		2,425	8,757		6,526	24,752		26.4%	44.9
Altria Group	4,489	21,852		2,967	8,078		2,833	7,774		10,289	37,704		27.3%
Mastercard	1,607	5,646		1,166	4,958		1,552	5,079		4,325	15,683		27.6%	4.0
Phillip Morris	2,586	9,924		2,706	9,615		3,159	10,650		8,451	30,189		28.0%	23.0
Verizon	8,441	20,986		6,349	28,240		3,406	15,270		18,196	64,496		28.2%	2.3
Wells Fargo	8,282	32,120		12,630	33,641		7,953	33,915		28,865	99,676		29.0%	2.4
3M Co	2,000	7,053		2,005	6,823		2,219	7,026		6,224	20,902		29.8%	14.0
Visa	3,297	11,694		2,799	8,012		2,459	8,995		8,555	28,701		29.8%	12.9
AbbVie	2,727	7,884		1,349	6,645		975	2,369		5,051	16,898		29.9%	29.0
Walt Disney	4,078	13,788		3,833	14,868		5,040	13,868		12,951	42,524		30.5%	4.7
Bristol-Myers Squibb	1,612	5,915		793	2,077		894	2,381		3,299	10,373		31.8%	25.7
Wal-Mart	5,459	20,497		7,584	21,638		8,504	24,799		21,547	66,934		32.2%	26.6
Exxon Mobil	3,842	7,969		7,126	21,966		16,211	51,630		27,179	81,565		33.3%	54.0
Medtronic	1,454	4,602		1,275	4,336		1,630	3,486		4,359	12,424		35.1%	31.8
Facebook	2,758	12,518		3,318	6,194		2,225	4,910		8,301	23,622		35.1%	2.9
McDonald's	2,718	6,866		2,028	6,556		2,705	7,372		7,451	20,794		35.8%	16.0
Home Depot	4,647	12,491		3,990	11,021		3,515	9,976		12,152	33,488		36.3%	4.2
UnitedHealth Group	4,709	11,863		4,436	10,231		4,154	9,656		13,299	31,750		41.9%
Chevron	2,106	(2,160)		1,993	4,842		10,319	31,202		14,418	33,884		42.6%	46.4
Merck	2,239	4,659		1,706	5,401		7,949	17,283		11,894	27,343		43.5%	63.1
Amazon	1,671	3,892		869	1,568		483	(111)		3,023	5,349		56.5%
Broadcom Ltd	224	(1,107)		296	1,467		125	342		645	702		91.9%
Total all 45	142,450	621,641		150,193	616,136		168,179	638,205		460,822	1,875,982		24.6%	1,507.9
Annual WW Income Tax Rate Paid	22.9%			24.4%			26.4%