Speculation swirls around Walgreens going abroad

Speculation swirls around Walgreens going abroad
Speculation swirls around Walgreens going abroad

Speculation swirls around Walgreens going abroad

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Financial Times on Monday reported that shareholders at Walgreen Co. are urging the corporation to leave suburban Deerfield to avoid the expensive corporate tax companies pay in the U.S. The move would be a tax inversion. Professor of economics Don Fullerton from University of Illinois explains what an inversion is and how they’re used. Photo: Flickr/Zolk