"Summary
U.S. multinational corporations—businesses incorporated
and operating in the United States that also
maintain operations in other countries—can use a variety
of strategies to change how and where their income is
taxed. One such strategy is a corporate inversion, which
can result in a significant reduction in worldwide tax
payments for a company. U.S. companies have engaged
in corporate inversions since 1983, and public and
government attention to them has varied over the years.
Concern grew most recently in 2014 because the group
of corporations that announced plans to invert that year
included some that were very large: Their combined
assets were $319 billion, more than the combined assets
of all of the corporations that had inverted over the previous
30 years.
What Is a Corporate Inversion?
A corporate inversion occurs when a U.S. multinational
corporation completes a merger that results in its being
treated as a foreign corporation in the U.S. tax system,
even though the shareholders of the original U.S. company
retain more than 50 percent of the new combined
company..."
Corporate Inversions
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
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