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Internal Revenue Service AbbVie Summary Judgment

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Tax Court Says AbbVie's $1.6B Break Fee Payment to Shire Properly Deducted as Ordinary Expense

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A break fee in a merger-gone-south can be deducted as an ordinary expense, the U.S. Tax Court held today, finding for biopharmaceutical giant AbbVie and rejecting the IRS’s argument that AbbVie must treat the fee as a capital...more

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