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Violation Tracker

Violation Tracker contains information from official sources on more than 600,000 cases in which companies and large non-profits paid monetary penalties for regulatory violations and other forms of misconduct. Those entities include subsidiaries linked to more than 3,000 parent companies and smaller firms without parents. The parents are both publicly traded and privately held and are both U.S.-headquartered corporations and foreign firms with U.S. operations.

It covers banking, consumer protection, false claims, environmental, wage and hour, safety, discrimination, price-fixing, and other cases resolved by federal regulatory agencies and all parts of the Justice Department since 2000—plus cases from state attorneys general and selected state and local regulatory agencies. They have 628,000 civil and criminal cases from more than 450 agencies with total penalties of $1 trillion. They also cover selected types of class action lawsuits.

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Tax Break Tracker

Tax Break Tracker contains disclosures from the 50 states plus DC, the five most populous cities, counties, and school districts within each state, and select other jurisdictions. Data include the jurisdiction affected, the jurisdiction-awarding abatement, its legal authority to do so, name of the abatement program, type of abatement program, and amount of taxes abated for that fiscal year. 

Corporate tax breaks cause cities, counties, and school districts to lose tax revenue that could have been better spent improving public services.

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