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Paying a single dollar in federal income tax on their profits because there may be a valid reason in some cases. what are the ways in which they do that? >> the first thing is that they are legal reasons. every reason to think that what companies are doing here is getting their taxes down to zero by using the legal tax breaks that congress has made available to them both in 2017 and in prior years. these include tax breaks that were designed to encourage capital investment, expenses of equipment, search and development tax break, tax break for executive stock options, tax breaks for creating c...

Local income taxes, they pay zero federal income -- >> tucker: no. "the new york times" today left to amazon's defense, and effect by saying, that is not really true. they instinctively defended a company for paying no federal taxes. this is how upside down our world is. >> that's unusual. i would expect most democrats or liberal newspaper or source to not pack a big corporation paying zero federal income tax. >> tucker: yet it's a very liberal corporation. >> here's a reason why they get away with it, from the sources various tax breaks, they say that executive stock options are allowing them...

>> tucker: let me correct one thing there. actually, no. "the new york times" today lept to amazon's defense, in effectha by saying, that is not really true. they instinctively defended a company for paying no federal taxes. this is how upside down our world is. >> that's unusual. i would expect most democrats or liberal newspaper or source to not back a big corporation paying zero federal income tax. >> tucker: you would think that. yet, it's a very liberal corporation. >> here's a reason why they get away with it, from the sources various tax breaks, they say that executive stock options are...

This week. facebook seems to be getting out of federal and state taxes for 2012. you heard that right. on top of that they expect a hefty refund. it sounds outrageous to many americans but tax experts say there are loopholes that make it legal. peter doocy takes a look. >> reporter: facebook's profits in the u.s. last year, $1.1 billion. combined income tax bill, zero dollars, they will get a refund of $429 million thanks to one tax deduction for executive stock options. >> employees cash in the stock options and at that point there is a tax deduction for the company because even though it did...

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