What is the largest corporation in the world today?

Question

Does it do business in the United States?
Does it pay any taxes?

Answer 1

By revenues...



1. Wal-Mart

2. BP

3. ExxonMobil

4. Royal Dutch/Shell Group

5. General Motors



By profits...



1. ExxonMobil

2. Royal Dutch/Shell Group

3. Citigroup

4. General Electric

5. BP



That is for 2004 (the Fortune 500 for 2005 should come out early Spring or late Winter). Wal-Mart is #1 in revenues, but ExxonMobile just posted 2005 revenues of $371 billion dollars, which I'm 110% sure is more than what Wal-Mart made in 2005.

Answer 2

Define "large"? By sales, employees, market value?



The largest in the world, by far, is probably the Chinese government which does a little bit of business in the US but pays no taxes here.



The largest public companies, all of which pay substantial taxes here in the US, ranked based on their market value are:



ExxonMobil Corporation

GE

Microsoft

British Petroleum

Citigroup

Royal Dutch Shell

Bank of America

Procter & Gamble

Pfizer

Wal-Mart

Answer 3

Wal-Mart is the largest corporation in the world. Yes it does buisness in the U.S. Yes they pay taxes.