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Pfizer, pocketing a big tax cut from Trump, will end investment in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s research

This time around, the company is again gifting its shareholders and laying off workers. Abandoning a challenging research field is a new wrinkle, however.

Pfizer’s diversion of its tax break to shareholders parallels its behavior the last time American companies received a tax holiday on repatriated foreign earnings. That was in 2004, after corporations promised to apply their tax savings to hiring more workers and investing in their business. Instead, they laid off workers, bought back their shares, and pumped up their CEO compensation.

By MICHAEL HILTZIK

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-pfizer-20180108-story.html

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