Yes, I'm intentionally insulting people in this post because this is important and too many people have no fucking idea what they're talking about.
First of all, corporations don't pay taxes and they never will. They can't.
When I was living in Virginia, I had a car for a while. Virgina has a property tax that applies to cars. It may surprise you that the car didn't pay the tax. It might baffle you that the car made literally no effort to file its own existence on tax forms in order to write a check to the government. It might astound you that, if that car weren't declared on the tax forms, the government would have come after me instead of the car. The car would have gotten off scot free.
Only none of that surprises you, does it? You know - in this case - that only people can pay taxes and it's absurd to suggest otherwise.
Now that that's out of the way, maybe you're gullible enough to think that corporate taxes are the same as taxing the rich.
Well, that'd be dumb. If it's the same thing, you wouldn't need your rhetoric about taxing corporations on top of AOC's Met Gala dress. You either haven't thought about this for two seconds or you understand at some level that these things aren't synonymous and, therefore, the point of corporate taxes is to shake money out of people who don't fall into the category of ultra-rich.
Frédéric Bastiat always talked about that which is unseen. There's also a lot of work, at least in the Austrian School, about proximate and ultimate causes and who is perceived to be paying as opposed to who is ultimately paying. Namely, the person writing the checks isn't always the person paying.
Okay, Russ Sobel is an economist who I've met in person a few times and, back to property taxes, he has an example from the logging industry.
West Virginia has very high property taxes that Ohio lacks. If you've ever driven through West Virginia I feel for you, I know how awful a place it is; but, also, you can understand why there should be a strong logging industry there. Well, that industry exists; but, most of the corporations that operate in the state don't buy some of the most efficient, expensive equipment like feller bunchers and knuckleboom log loaders because the property taxes in West Virginia are such that, if they do buy the equipment, they have to keep paying tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes per year per machine until they unload them. So, in this case, when you ask, "Who's paying the tax." the answer is often, "Not many people in West Virginia because it doesn't make financial sense." Now, yes, some companies do pay for this equipment. If a logger is lucky enough to be working with this equipment in West Virginia - or in Ohio which doesn't have the stupid tax - he makes about ten times more than a logger who doesn't. Most of these people have the same qualifications; but, access to the equipment makes people more productive and, therefore, worth more money. So, ultimately, the people paying the tax are most of the employees in the industry through less access to higher wages and the customers of the industry (which is almost everybody) who are paying higher prices.
The irony of all of this is that the very same people who always whine and howl about corporate greed are the people who are expecting these taxes to get the heads of these corporations to work against the bottom line. Are you high? If the greed of the people at the top is a problem then taxes thrown at an organization would literally have to hurt everybody else first before the rich dipped into their own wallets.
Stop believing the lies. This is basic logic that most people should be able to grasp.