re: How Burger King pleases the 1 percent, screws its workers

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Is there some belief out there that the revenues generated inside of the us will not be subject to us taxes?

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Tax inversion, or corporate inversion, is a largely American term for the relocation of a corporation's headquarters to a lower-tax nation, or corporate haven, usually while retaining its material operations in its higher-tax country of origin.[1][2] The term is most frequently used in relation to US corporations.[citation needed] Corporate inversions are a relatively recent phenomenon. Although it is difficult to be definitive, the practice first became prevalent in the 1990s, with US corporations seeking to relocate to tax havens such as Bermuda;[3] more recently, because of changes in US law, publicity has focused upon corporate inversions conducted by way of merger with companies in lower-tax foreign countries. The issue was first subjected to a great deal of publicity in April 2014 by the proposed merger between Pfizer and AstraZeneca.[4][5] While large multinational public companies have received most of the recent press coverage on corporate inversions, middle-market companies and private

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