Template:Did you know nominations/Repatriation tax avoidance
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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 07:20, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
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Repatriation tax avoidance
- ... that Merck & Co. avoided repatriation taxes totaling over $3 billion during its 2009 acquisition of Schering-Plough? Source: <https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2556519>; <https://doi.org/10.1111/fire.12283>
Improved to Good Article status by Mhawk10 (talk). Self-nominated at 18:37, 10 March 2022 (UTC).
Article has achieved Good Article status. No issues of copyvio or plagiarism. All sources appear reliable. Hook is interesting and sourced. QPQ is done. Looks ready to go! Thriley (talk) 15:15, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
- @Mhawk10 and Thriley: I was going to promote this, but I had problems verifying this hook. While the article mentions that Merck & Co. avoided paying the repatriation taxes, the $3 billion amount is not mentioned in the article. Can this be added to the article, or an alternate hook suggested? Thanks. Z1720 (talk) 18:14, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
- @Z1720 and Thriley: See page 12 of the first source I provided above to verify the hook. It's under section 2.3, which notes that
Merck avoided repatriation tax of about $3 billion associated with its 2009 stock-acquisition of U.S.-based pharmaceutical company, Schering-Plough, by implementing a variation of this maneuver
, the maneuver being an Outbound F tax avoidance scheme. I've added the number to the article.
- @Z1720 and Thriley: See page 12 of the first source I provided above to verify the hook. It's under section 2.3, which notes that
- @Mhawk10 and Thriley: I was going to promote this, but I had problems verifying this hook. While the article mentions that Merck & Co. avoided paying the repatriation taxes, the $3 billion amount is not mentioned in the article. Can this be added to the article, or an alternate hook suggested? Thanks. Z1720 (talk) 18:14, 3 April 2022 (UTC)