On September 22nd, The U.S. Treasury announced a series of measures designed to surb tax inversions, hoping to make "substantial progress in constraining the creative techniques used to avoid U.S. Tax

The measures introduced would :

a. prevent the use of so-called hop-scotch loan;
b. prevent inverted companies from restructuring a foreign subsidiary in order to access the subsidiary's earning tax-free;
c. close a loophole to prevent an inverted company from transferring cash or property from a controlled foreign corporation;
d. make it more difficult for U.S. entities to invert, by strengthening the requirement that the former owners of the U.S. entity owners of the U.S. entity own less than 80% of the new combined entity.

However, "Treasury regulaations are unlikely to resolve the underlying problems of the leaky American tax system; Can an emphasis on financial engineering and cost cutting cause management to lose focus on innovation and customer satisfaction?
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