Tax March, which held dozens of demonstrations in 2017 calling on former President Donald Trump to launch his tax returns, plans to launch adverts focusing on FedEx on Tuesday. The TV adverts will air in Washington, D.C., and in Memphis, Tennessee, the place FedEx is headquartered.

A report by the Institute on Taxation and Financial Coverage says FedEx “zeroed out its federal earnings tax on $1.2 billion of U.S. pretax earnings in 2020 and acquired a rebate of $230 million.” The report says the shortage of funds in taxes by some firms is probably going linked to historic tax breaks in addition to Trump’s 2017 tax reform plan and sure components of the coronavirus reduction invoice generally known as the CARES Act.

Tax March additionally plans to focus on Nike with a newspaper advert subsequent week within the shoe large’s residence state of Oregon, based on Dana Bye, the marketing campaign director for the group. She stated the newspaper advert could have a message much like that of the TV spot specializing in FedEx.

The institute’s report stated Nike “did not pay a dime of federal earnings tax on nearly $2.9 billion of U.S. pretax earnings final yr, as a substitute having fun with a $109 million tax rebate.”

“FedEx pays all U.S. federal, state, and native taxes, totaling over $20 billion between 2016 and 2020. Throughout that point Congress adopted new tax legal guidelines to assist firms like FedEx make further investments in its folks, offering pay will increase and funding pensions, and in native economies, including new jobs and bettering infrastructure. These modifications have been legal guidelines, not loopholes,” firm spokeswoman Isabel Rollison stated in a press release after this story was revealed.

After issuing her preliminary assertion, Rollison later clarified to CNBC saying “FedEx pays all U.S. federal, state, and native taxes, totaling over $9 billion between 2016 and 2020.”

“FedEx has collected and remitted over $20 billion in taxes within the U.S. (federal, state and native particular person earnings, payroll, customs duties and state & native gross sales tax) over the last 5 fiscal years 2016-2020,”she added.

A representatives for Nike did not reply to CNBC’s request for remark.

President Joe Biden has stated he needs to lift the company tax fee to twenty-eight% to assist pay for his $2 trillion infrastructure reform package deal. He has since stated that he is keen to barter on the potential company tax hike as reasonable Democrats reminiscent of Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., have pushed again on elevating the speed to twenty-eight%.

Bye stated the marketing campaign as a complete will price nearly $500,000. It’s going to additionally embody digital adverts on Automobilnews and different platforms.

The TV advert, first reviewed by CNBC, takes intention at FedEx as considered one of a number of firms that paid little to no federal company earnings taxes just lately.

“Inform Congress: It is time to put the folks first,” a voiceover on the FedEx advert says. “Make firms like FedEx pay their justifiable share.”

FedEx just lately instructed CNBC that it’s towards elevating company taxes as option to pay for Biden’s infrastructure plan. Advocacy teams such because the Chamber of Commerce and the Enterprise Roundtable have additionally opposed the concept of elevating the company tax fee as a option to pay for infrastructure.

“I believe the largest assertion we try to make via this marketing campaign is that we will not let company tax dodgers like FedEx drive the talk on taxes,” Bye stated.

Tax March is a venture of the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a darkish cash 501(c)(4) group that contributed simply over $60 million to Democratic-aligned teams throughout the 2020 election, together with hundreds of thousands to tremendous PACs backing Biden, based on information from the nonpartisan Middle for Responsive Politics.

The marketing campaign by Tax March is among the first to tackle firms since Biden turned president. It comes as firms are beneath strain to reply to new voting legal guidelines reminiscent of these just lately handed in Georgia.