In one recent high-profile "tax inversion," Medtronic, a venerable Minneapolis-based medical device manufacturer, agreed last month to buy rival medical-device maker Covidien PLC for $42.9 billion.

Literally speaking, yes, tax inversions reduce revenue (of course, they can also lead to greater capital investment domestically because earnings can be repatriated tax-free).

An estimated 47 U.S. firms reincorporated overseas via inversions during the last 10 years, more than in the previous two decades combined, according to an analysis by the Congressional Research ...

What it means: A corporate tax inversion is a method by which companies try to reduce their corporate tax bills by re-establishing headquarters overseas, typically through an acquisition.

Tax inversions just happen to be the action de jour. Moreover, it has become a very popular action of late. In this article, we'll discuss what they are, how they work, ...

In an inversion, a U.S. company sets up or buys another company in a country with a lower corporate tax rate and then calls the new country home—thereby dodging U.S. taxes it would otherwise ...

While the business-tax-reform process moves steadily forward, the pace of inversions is increasing at breakneck speed. We must confront this problem now, before our tax base is so eroded as to ...

Drug companies and medical device makers are making multi-billion-dollar merger deals to avoid high U.S. corporate taxes. How do so-called "inversion deals" work? WSJ's Jason Bellini has The Short ...

A corporate inversion is a tax avoidance strategy employed by a U.S. company involving its reincorporation in a foreign jurisdiction that enjoys lower corporate taxes.

Short-Term and Long-Term Tax Motivations for Inversions . There are both short-term and long-term reasons why the U.S. tax system motivates a U.S. business that merges with a foreign one to invert.

On September 22nd, the Treasury Department announced some new measures to crack down on corporate tax inversions. I nversions have languished for years as an arcane sub-element of the already ...

The United States is one of the few large countries that taxes citizens, permanent residents and corporations on income earned anywhere in the world. The only way individuals can escape U.S. tax ...