Paris / Washington / D.C. / Washington / New York City / New York / /
Company
Medtronic Inc. / Pfizer Inc. / General Electric Co. / Cisco Systems Inc. / The Coca-Cola Company / Google Inc. / Cravath / Swaine & Moore LLP / Cadwalader / Wickersham & Taft LLP / Tax Justice / Bloomberg / Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP / Boeing / Microsoft / General Accounting Office / /
Continent
America / /
Country
Switzerland / Bermuda / Cayman Islands / United Kingdom / United States / Ireland / /
Currency
USD / / /
Event
Person Communication and Meetings / /
Facility
University of Southern California’s Gould School / Economic Policy Institute / U.S. headquarters / University of Michigan / Paris-based club / /
IndustryTerm
medical device manufacturer / complicated accounting / energy / pharmaceutical industries / inversions law / law school / corporate / law / /
Organization
Citizens for Tax Justice / Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development / Senate / U.S. Congress / South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce / Senate Finance Committee / Ways and Means Committee / University of Southern California / U.S. Treasury / American Sustainable Business Council / Financing Accountability & Corporate Transparency Coalition / Joint Committee on Taxation / Alliance for Competitive Taxation / Internal Revenue Service / Congressional Budget Office / Economic Policy Institute / Congress / University of Southern California’s Gould School of Law / Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy / Congressional Research Service / the University of Michigan / /
Person
Lindsey Held / Charles Grassley / James S. Henry / Obama / Nick Jacobs / Reuven S. Avi-Yonah / Rebecca Wilkins / Ron Wyden / Sander M. Levin / Carol P. Tello / Edward Kleinbard / Jill Gerber / Orrin Hatch / Hungerford / Linda Swartz / Allyson Schwartz / Steve Wamhoff / Bush / Michael L. Schler / Frank Knapp Jr. / Carl Levin / / /
Position
spokesman / President / spokeswoman for Wyden / legislative director / senior counsel / lawyers and tax advisors / press secretary / CEO / professor / chief of staff / president and CEO / chief of staff to Rep. Allyson Schwartz / senior economic advisor / international tax attorney / economist / director of tax and budget policy / policy analyst / chair of the tax group / Senator / chairman / co-chair / lawyer / Grassley’s press secretary / spokeswoman / /
ProvinceOrState
Southern California / New York / Michigan / Utah / Oregon / Pennsylvania / Iowa / /
Congress fiddles while Treasury burns Original Reporting | By T.J. Lewan | Corporations, Taxes June 25, 2014 — Corporate “inversions,” as they’re known in accounting parlance, are transactions in which U.S. corpo