While Pfizer Inc.’s CEO acknowledged Tuesday that the U.S. Treasury Department’s recent crackdown on inversions has diminished the deal’s appeal, the drug maker has yet to rule out an acquisition that would lower its tax bill. New York-based Pfizer explored deals with AstraZeneca PLC and Actavis PLC this year that […]
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While the federal government may be trying to prevent U.S. corporations from relocating overseas for tax purposes, it has failed to stop companies that have already completed such deals from doing their own follow-on acquisitions of U.S. companies. On Thursday, Endo International PLC announced it would be acquiring Chesterbrook Pa.-based […]
Dozens of inversion deals are at risk of penalization by a top Senate Democrat’s proposal to limit future deductions for companies that attempt to reincorporate overseas. The proposal by Charles Schumer of New York, the No. 3 leader in the Senate’s Democratic Majority, seeks to limit the amount of deductible […]
Sen. Bernard Sanders, a Vermont independent and apparent presidential candidate, made the case for a progressive estate tax in a recent piece for The Huffington Post. “Unless we reduce skyrocketing wealth and income inequality,” he declared, “unless we end the ability of the super-rich to buy elections, the United States […]
Two new developments in negotiations over taxes could mean lawmakers are one step closer to restricting inversion deals. Charles Schumer, a top Senate Democrat, offered a plan Tuesday to restrict inversions, and agreed to allow it to lapse after three years giving Democrats one of their top priorities while also […]
Treasury Department officials are preparing an arsenal of administrative weapons for Secretary Jacob Lew to use in the government’s battle to prevent U.S. companies from reincorporating overseas in an effort to avoid paying federal taxes, otherwise known as tax inversion. Inversion, while complex, became popular because of its ability to […]
While the U.S. maintains the highest corporate tax rate at 35 percent, a paper published earlier this month by University of Southern California law professor Edward Kleinbard, suggests many companies use a system of elaborate tax loopholes to avoid paying anywhere near that amount. Kleinbard’s work gained national recognition after […]
By Brown, PC of Brown, PC posted in Legislation on Tuesday, September 2, 2014. Samsung Electronics Co. is sitting on $60B in cash, that’s 58% larger than Apple’s cash pile, and the Korean tax man has sent a message to the country’s biggest company: “Use it or lose it.” The […]
Senate Democrats moved to discourage the use of inversion by outlining a proposal that would restrict the practice of earnings stripping, where U.S. companies borrow money from overseas parents and deduct the interest expense on U.S. taxes. The plan, outlined by Sen. Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.), makes it clear that […]
U.S. retailer Walgreen Co has decided to cancel its plan to reincorporate overseas to lower its tax bill, amidst a political push from the Obama administration to curb such corporate tax domicile-shifting deals. Walgreen, the operator of the largest U.S. pharmacy chain, will follow through with its plan to purchase […]