President Urges End To Corporate Inversions
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
In his State of the Union speech, President Obama pledges to “close tax loopholes,” including his continuing efforts to ban U.S. firms from moving their tax headquarters overseas in corporate inversion deals. On the same day Democratic legislators introduced a bill to stop corporate inversions.
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