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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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The Transaction That Failed – Tax Treatment of Termination Fees

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Deal Costs, Generally- Every purchase and sale of a business, whether from the perspective of the seller or the buyer, is about economics, and few items will impact the economics of the transaction more certainly or...more

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