{"id":3923,"date":"2016-08-12T09:03:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T13:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3923"},"modified":"2016-08-12T09:03:14","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T13:03:14","slug":"irs-is-urged-to-investigate-gilead-for-dodging-us-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3923","title":{"rendered":"IRS is urged to investigate Gilead for \u2018dodging\u2019 US taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Ed Silverman for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"big-cap\">A<\/span>n advocacy group is urging the US Internal Revenue Service and the US Treasury Department to investigate Gilead Sciences for allegedly shifting billions of dollars of income offshore in order to avoid paying taxes. The request from Americans for Tax Fairness comes one month after the group released a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/pharmalot\/2016\/07\/13\/gilead-hepatitis-c-taxes\/\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> accusing the drug maker of dodging $10 billion in taxes. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/pharmalot\/2016\/08\/11\/irs-investigate-gilead-dodging-us-taxes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;..<\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Ed Silverman for STAT) An advocacy group is urging the US Internal Revenue Service and the US Treasury Department<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3924,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923\/revisions\/3924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}