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U.S. Legislators Introduce 'No Federal Contracts for Corporate Deserters Act'

30 July 2014

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On 28 July 2014, U.S. Senators Dick Durbin and Carl Levin, and Representatives Rosa DeLauro and Lloyd Doggett, introduced the No Federal Contracts for Corporate Deserters Act. As with the Stop Corporate Inversions Act of 2014 and other recent bill amendments, this new Act is designed to reduce corporate inversions. Under the Act, inverted companies with over 50% ownership by shareholders of the old U.S. corporation and no substantial business opportunities in the foreign country in which they are incorporating would not be eligible for U.S. Federal Government contracts. The ban would also apply to businesses that subcontract to inverted...