Among lowest taxpayers were companies whose CEOs have become high-profile advocates for corporate social responsibility

Some of the US’s most profitable corporations, including General Motors, Citigroup and Netflix, have slashed their tax bills in the years since the passage of the Trump tax cuts, with nearly a quarter paying rates in the single digits and 23 paying nothing, a report has found.

The 2017 law cut the top corporate income tax rate from 35% to 21%. But the new assessment of corporate tax avoidance, published on Thursday by the non-profit Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (Itep), found that during the first five years the law was in effect, many profitable public companies in the US paid a far lower rate in practice.

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    How much the top 25 companies saved in taxes stiffed the public funds

    Bank of America $23.89 billion

    AT&T $17.68 billion

    J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. $16.69 billion

    Verizon Communications $13.68 billion

    Apple $9.26 billion

    General Motors $6.52 billion

    Citigroup $5.88 billion

    Walt Disney $5.09 billion

    NextEra Energy $4.57 billion

    Duke Energy $4.51 billion

    Comcast $4.36 billion

    Walmart $4.04 billion

    T-Mobile US $3.84 billion

    Southern $3.41 billion

    United Parcel Service $3.32 billion

    Nike $3.12 billion

    PNC Financial Services Group $3.08 billion

    Netflix $2.98 billion

    Texas Instruments $2.92 billion

    Charter Communications $2.75 billion

    Kinder Morgan $2.75 billion

    FedEx $2.66 billion

    Dominion Energy $2.62 billion

    DISH Network $2.60 billion

    Principal Financial $2.47 billion