Since the Treasury Department announced new rules in early April designed to stop corporate inversions, some corporate lobbyists have protested loudly. This likely is an indicator the proposed rules would have a real effect on the ability of big multinational corporations to avoid corporate income taxes. The new rules are designed to prevent U.S. companies from merging with a foreign company and reincorporating as a foreign entity in order to escape paying U.S. taxes, a practice known as a corporate inversion.
In recent years, corporate inversions have emerged as a real threat to the U.S. tax base. In fact, the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) now estimates that inversions will cost the U.S. Treasury at least $34 billion over the next 10 years. The American people should not have to make up for the revenue hole created by inversions, and in the absence of legislation to curb this problem, the Treasury is right to take whatever actions it can within its legal authority to curb inversions on its own.
Citizens for Tax Justice (CTJ) submitted comments this week in support of two parts of the Treasury’s proposed rules, the Serial Inverter Rule and the Earnings Stripping Rule, while also urging Treasury to take additional action to curb corporate inversions.
Source: http://www.taxjusticeblog.org/archive/2016/07/why_treasurys_new_anti-inversi.php
