Read the full article: U.S. Seeks Legislation to Curb Offshore Tax Deals - Bloomberg:
"In a letter calling for a “new sense of economic patriotism,” Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew said Congress should approve tax changes retroactive to May.
“We should prevent companies from effectively renouncing their citizenship to get out of paying taxes,” Lew wrote in the letter to top congressional tax writers, which was dated yesterday and obtained by Bloomberg News. “We should not be providing support for corporations that seek to shift their profits overseas to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.”
The mergers used to legally avoid taxes, known as inversion transactions, have become increasingly popular over the past year, particularly in the pharmaceutical industry. "
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