Hammond: Businesses pay 60 percent of taxes in Texas

Endorsing a call by Gov. Rick Perry to cut state business taxes, Bill Hammond of the Texas Association of Business said: “Texas businesses pay roughly 60 percent of all taxes that are paid in Texas today.”

That so?

PolitiFact Texas checked a similar statement in 2011, rating as Mostly True a state senator’s claim that businesses “pay most of the taxes” in Texas. In this circle-back, we revisited two sources before similarly finding Hammond’s statement to be Half True–though we noted, too, that business often offload taxes and other expenses to customers.

Scope out who pays what in Sue Owen’s analysis to the right.