--- title: Hillary Clinton Touts Plan to Crack Down on Inversion Deals description: Hillary Clinton on Wednesday will tout a plan to crack down on company mergers that move taxable profits outside the United States canonical: https://time.com/4143070/hillary-clinton-tax-inversion/ author: Sam Frizell article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-09T18:25:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T22:20:11.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Hillary Clinton Touts Plan to Crack Down on Inversion Deals og:description: Hillary Clinton on Wednesday will tout a plan to crack down on company mergers that move taxable profits outside the United States og:url: https://time.com/4143070/hillary-clinton-tax-inversion/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteb097a8f96521de6/698874a92dce0188439e6df6/hillary-clinton1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3946 og:image:height: 2220 og:image:alt: Hillary Clinton og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton Touts Plan to Crack Down on Inversion Deals twitter:description: Hillary Clinton on Wednesday will tout a plan to crack down on company mergers that move taxable profits outside the United States twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteb097a8f96521de6/698874a92dce0188439e6df6/hillary-clinton1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton Announces Plan to Crack Down on Inversion Deals > Sponsored content. 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Watch the top 10 moments from Hillary Clinton's career in politics._ by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Updated: Dec 13, 2023 10:20 PM UTCPublished: Dec 9, 2015 6:25 PM UTC  Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during a campaign stop Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015, in Salem, N.H. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during a campaign stop Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015, in Salem, N.H. Jim Cole—AP by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Updated: Dec 13, 2023 10:20 PM UTCPublished: Dec 9, 2015 6:25 PM UTC Hillary Clinton on Wednesday will tout a multistep plan to crack down on company mergers that move taxable profits outside the United States, an aide said, calling in Iowa for stricter regulations in the wake of the criticized Pfizer-Allergan merger. Her plan calls for using executive authority to punish companies that engage in “earnings stripping,” a strategy commonly used by companies that move their tax addresses outside the United States. Clinton will “crack down generally on companies that shift profits overseas in order to avoid paying their fair share of taxes,” according to an aide. The $160-billion Pfizer-Allergan merger is the latest in a series of high-profile inversions that move U.S. companies’ headquarters overseas to countries like Ireland, Canada and Bermuda, where they can avoid paying U.S. taxes. Examples include Burger King, which acquired Tim Hortons last year for $11.4 billion to move its headquarters to Canada, and medical device maker Medtronic purchase of Dublin-based Covidien for $43 billion. The mergers have sparked anger back home, and President Obama has urged Congress unsuccessfully to curb overseas moves. “We’ve recently seen a few large corporations announce plans to exploit this loophole, undercutting businesses that act responsibly and leaving the middle class to pay the bill,” Obama said last year. Clinton has said that Congress should stop inversions by requiring that a foreign entity purchasing a U.S. company control a 50 percent stake of the combined company. That raises the bar for gaining tax benefits through a merger: current law considers a U.S. firm to be expatriated if the foreign company has bought just a 20% stake. Clinton also said on Monday she supports an “exit tax” on untaxed overseas earnings of corporations that move their headquarters abroad. The newest part of Clinton’s plan is closing the “earnings stripping” loophole. As president, Clinton would ask her Treasury Department to reclassify corporate debt as equity in order to block companies from exploiting the mechanism that lets them avoid paying US taxes. The Clinton campaign says that would raise $60 billion over 10 years. ## Transcript You know, I'm not sittin' here some little woman standing here by my man like Tammy Wynette. I'm sittin' here because I love him, and I respect him. Now is our chance to beat the historical odds, and give the American people the health security they need. If there is one message that echoes forth from this. Let it be that human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights once and for all. The great story here for anybody willing to find it and write about it and explain it is this vast right- wing conspiracy that has been conspiring. Against my husband since the day he announced for president. I would be happy to, when you give me the signed letters. Well, right here. Right here. When you give me. Right here. Sign it right now. We'll shake. We'll shake on this, Ray. No, no, I want your signature, cause I think that everybody wants to see you signing something that you said you were for. You know, I have so many opportunities from this country. I just don't wanna see us fall backwards. Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it. The battle to stop Al Qaeda and its affiliates. Does not end with one death. What difference, at this point, does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, Senator. I took the unprecedented step of asking that the state department make all my work- related emails, [ MUSIC ] Public for everyone to see. 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