据外媒报道，近日汉堡王并购加拿大餐饮企业蒂姆霍顿（Tim Hortons）的消息成为热门话题，亿万富翁巴菲特（Warren Buffett）为并购案提供30亿美元融资。
尽管汉堡王和其控股公司--3G资本公司都强调，并购是为了双方更好的业务增长，而非出于税务方面的考虑。然而，向来被外界视为美国总统奥巴马“盟友”的巴菲特却因为支持有避税嫌疑的“税负倒置”交易而遭到热议。
部分原文报道如下：
Obama and Warren Buffett may have turned sour with Buffett's investment in Burger King's inversion. President Obama's favorite billionaire has thrown him under the Burger King bus.
Warren Buffett stuck one of his big Midas thumbs in Obama's eye Tuesday by agreeing to pony-up $3 billion so the hamburger chain can buy a Canadian doughnut outfit - and avoid paying millions in U.S. corporate taxes by moving part of its headquarters to Ontario.
Buffett made the move just a month after Obama denounced “inversion” tactics like this as an “unpatriotic tax loophole” and ordered regulatory changes to curb them.
原文链接： <http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/warren-buffett-pay-3b-burger-king-buy-tim-hortons-article-1.1918034>
日期：2014-08-29
