West Street Rally January 26, 2012. Photo courtesy of Ed Rosado

By Anthony S Jennings

Verizon Communications has been identified as one of the country’s worst tax dodger, earning more than $32 billion in the U.S. alone between 2008 and 2010 – all while paying an effective income tax rate of zero.

Community members and allies rallied with District 1 at Verizon corporate headquarters yesterday to demand the giant corporation pay it’s fair share.

Union workers throughout the New York metro area gathered at Barclay and West Streets in Manhattan to highlight the abuses of corporate tax dodgers and their practice of aggressively lobbying for tax laws structured to benefit giant corporations and the wealthiest 1%.

Today’s action, part of a series of events called “Occupy the Boardroom,” was aimed at corporate tax dodgers, reminding them that it’s the 99% that ends up paying for corporate free-riding.

Corporate Tax Dodgers Protested across the Country, read more about it at SEIU.