The verdict appears as a colored icon in your toolbar:
What it does
The tax record, where you already are.
Open a company's website — where you shop, pay a bill, or read the news — and Get Untethered shows you a Tax Transparency Record: the federal income tax rate that company actually paid, next to the 21% full federal rate, and the dollars involved where the filings report them.
The toolbar icon gives you the verdict at a glance. Click it for the full breakdown — the rate paid, the tax year, and what the company did with the money it kept, like stock buybacks.
Every figure comes from public records: the company's own filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and analysis from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.
The important part
It's legal. Congress wrote the rules.
These companies didn't cheat. They used deductions, credits, and provisions that Congress wrote into the tax code — accelerated depreciation, stock-option deductions, credits carried across years. All of it legal. All of it on the public record.
Get Untethered shows what companies paid, straight from their filings. It doesn't accuse anyone of breaking the law. The rules are the story — and Congress writes the rules.
That's why every record links you to a pre-written letter to your own members of Congress, built from that company's numbers. The fix isn't blaming the company for following the law. It's changing the law.
Install
One click.
Get Untethered is on the Chrome Web Store. Add it to Chrome and the verdict icon appears in your toolbar — no setup, no account.
After installing, pin it to your toolbar (click the puzzle-piece icon, then pin Get Untethered) so the verdict is always visible.
Chrome will note the extension can "read your browsing history." That permission is simply what lets it see which company's site you're on, so it can show that company's record. It never stores or transmits anything about you or your browsing — see Privacy.
Privacy
We never track you.
Get Untethered collects nothing about you. No account, no telemetry, no analytics, no error reporting. It doesn’t build a profile of you, and it never sends your browsing history anywhere.
Here is everything it does:
- It reads the address of the site you're on, to see which company it is.
- It looks that company up in our public tax dataset — the same
companies.jsonfile published on this site — and shows you the record. - It fetches that dataset from getuntethered.ai so the numbers stay current. That request carries no information about you.
The dataset is public, the extension's source is small and readable, and the filings behind every number are a matter of public record. The code is the proof.
About
Public numbers, made visible.
Every figure Get Untethered shows has been public for years — sitting in SEC filings almost no one reads. The gap between what these companies earn and what they pay in federal tax isn't a secret. It's just buried where you'd never look.
Get Untethered is a small, independent project. It doesn't accuse anyone of breaking the law, because they didn't. It puts the public record in front of you, on the sites where these companies ask for your money — and points you to the people who write the rules.
Built minimally, on purpose. No funding. No tracking. No agenda beyond the one stated here.
Support
Common questions.
Why is almost every company red?
Partly because that’s what the filings show. But it’s also a function of
which companies are here. This set was built from published analyses of
corporate tax avoidance — work that starts by looking for large, profitable
companies paying low rates. So the mix skews toward avoidance by construction.
Read it as a set of individual records, each true on its own. Don’t read the overall mix as representative of American business, because it isn’t a random sample.
Why does this site show “no public record”?
Most likely we don’t have that company yet. Get Untethered covers a few
hundred websites belonging to large companies that file with the SEC — a
small slice of the web. Private companies file nothing public, so they can’t
be covered at all.
It also appears on purpose. When a company’s filings don’t give a figure we can stand behind — the numbers are missing, or they produce a rate so implausible it would be misleading — we show no record rather than print a number we can’t defend.
Where do the numbers come from?
Two public sources: companies’ own annual filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, and analysis from the Institute on Taxation and Economic
Policy. The rate shown is federal income tax on U.S. profits, against the 21%
full federal rate. Data is refreshed quarterly, because companies’ fiscal
years end at different times of the year.
A number looks wrong to me.
Tell us and we’ll look. Email
hello@getuntethered.ai
with the company and what you’re seeing. The filings behind every figure are
public, so a correction is something we can check rather than argue about.
Does this work on every website?
No. It only has something to say on the websites of the companies it covers.
Everywhere else the icon stays grey and the extension does nothing.
How do I remove it?
In Chrome, open the puzzle-piece menu, find Get Untethered, and choose Remove.
Nothing is left behind — there’s no account and no data stored anywhere
but your own browser.
Anything else: hello@getuntethered.ai
Terms
The short version.
Get Untethered is provided as-is, free of charge, for personal use. It reports figures drawn from public SEC filings and ITEP analysis. That data is a best effort, will sometimes be incomplete, and may occasionally be wrong. Where a company's numbers can't be established with confidence, the extension shows no record rather than guess. Use the information as a signal, not as a definitive judgment about any company.
The extension carries no warranty and no guarantee of accuracy. By installing it, you accept that it may be updated, changed, or discontinued at any time.
If you find a number that looks wrong, corrections are welcome — the underlying filings are public, and so is our reasoning.