1,152 claims on this topic checked by other fact-checking organisations. Topics are sorted by the words in each claim and cover English-language checks.
Vera Files says: Big Dipper and ABS-CBN have been paying their taxes correctly over the years, according to officials from the BIR and Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) who testified in a congressional hearing on ABS-CBN’s franc…
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Taylor is wrong. When the carbon tax went into place, manufacturing employed 947,500 people. By the time of its repeal two years later, that number had shrunk by 32,300 (3.4 per cent), with one in 29 workers affected…
FACTLY says: According to a RTI response, a sum of Rs. 1073 crores have been written off to Jain Infra Projects Limited. As per the information available on Ministry of Consumer affairs, Jay Shah is not featured in the list of direc…
PolitiFact says: The inflation rate was 7% over the past year. However, a 4.7% increase in wages has reduced the impact on the typical worker by about two-thirds, making Romney’s figure exaggerated.
FACTLY says: According to a Lok Sabha reply, dated 20 July 2018, as of March 2018, India’s outstanding loan with the World Bank stood at $ 34285.16 million. Moreover, as per the World Bank, as of 31 December 2021, India’s outstandin…
PolitiFact says: We couldn’t find any credible reports about any California store owner raising prices to get around state rules. The screenshot is from a satire article.
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Dr Chalmers's claim is a fair call. Although there have been just two periods each of Labor and Coalition governments in the last 30 years, the Commonwealth tax take was on average higher under the Coalition during that…
FactCheck.org says: While weekly paychecks have indeed gotten larger since Biden became president, they have not kept pace with the rapid rise in prices of consumer goods and services during that time.
PolitiFact says: The national average price for gasoline when Trump left the White House was $2.38, or about 28% higher than what he said it was.
PolitiFact says: The standard metric used for this purpose — per capita, inflation-adjusted personal disposable income — has risen steadily since before the pandemic hit.
FactCheck.org says: The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve was set up as an emergency source of oil to keep supplies flowing in the event of unexpected disruptions.
PolitiFact says: President Joe Biden’s decision to cancel the planned Keystone XL oil pipeline, which was not in operation, did not cause the recent increases in U.S. gasoline prices.