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On the recordMay 17, 2023
This is an instance where these big pharmaceutical companies would make most of their sales in the United States, then they race overseas to, in effect, pretend that they were really residents there so they could pay very low taxes.
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Ron Wyden
Democratic · Oregon

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Wyden highlights tax avoidance practices by pharmaceutical companies.

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