Talk:Tax inversion

Don't delete me

Corporate Inversion is a term of art for when corporations move their headquarters to a foreign country as a tax dodge.

Numerous legal and government articles use this term of art in their titles.

It is appropriate to define an article around this term of art to serve as a reference to the articles that are written around this subject. Doing so goes beyond the function of a dictionary and serves also to tie together other articles in Wikipedia related to this subject.

Erxnmedia (talk) 14:29, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Might this be better served by creating a section under tax avoidance or tax haven and redirecting the "Corporate Inversion" article to those pages. The material appears important to mention, the question is if it should receive an article of it's own at this point, or be included in another article until it grows to sufficient length to merit its own article. If there are plans to greatly expand this article, than it may merit its own article if it is notable enough. Morphh ^(talk) 14:39, 08 October 2008 (UTC)

Agree with Morphh. This is essentially a dictionary term that can be covered off within tax avoidance, tax haven or corporate haven articles. I know it was speedied on the basis that it looked like a dictionary definition, but I am also worried by the sourcing. One anyone-can-edit encyclopedia should not rely upon another anyone-can-edit source as its primary basis. Speaking as a practitioner in this area, it must be a US-centric term, as it is not a term that I am familiar with (although it seems to render a sufficient number of Google hits to appear genuine). --Legis (talk - contribs) 16:22, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

I agree that it is a US-centric technical term. It is the term used by the IRS, in one of the many links I provided. There is otherwise no Wikipedia article that defines this term. I go to Wikipedia to learn about concepts that I don't otherwise know, so I think it should be here.

I agree that articles on Tax haven and Corporate haven and Tax avoidance and tax evasion could be merged or organized better. If you wanted to roll up 4 articles into one mega article that might be a solution, although there is also a suggested size limit on Wikipedia articles (less than 100kbytes roughtly).

Erxnmedia (talk) 19:31, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Not US invention

Let's not be US centric please. The process of re-incorporating in a lower tax haven jurisdiction is nothing new. There are ample example from colonial times from colonizing nations where companies moved headquarters to new territories to gain tax advantages.207.87.238.194 (talk) 12:46, 27 August 2014 (UTC)