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Violation Tracker Summary for Mega-Scandal

Mega-Scandal: Tax Disputes
Description: This list shows cases in which companies paid $25 million or more to resolve tax disputes with the Internal Revenue Service. In the vast majority of cases, these disputes are resolved privately and no announcement is made.
Penalty Total since 2000$5,700,000,000
Number of Penalty Records: 2
Note: The totals here are adjusted to account for the fact that each current parent's entries may include both agency records and settlement announcements for the same case; or else a penalty covering multiple locations may be listed in the individual records for each of the facilities. They are also adjusted to reflect cases in which federal and state or local agencies cooperated and issued separate announcements of the outcome. Duplicate or overlapping penalty amounts are marked with an asterisk in the individual records list below.
Top 10 Current Parent CompaniesTotal Penalty $Number of Records
GlaxoSmithKline$3,400,000,0001
Merck$2,300,000,0001

Individual Penalty Records:

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CompanyCurrent ParentCurrent Parent IndustryPrimary Offense TypeYearAgencyPenalty Amount sort icon
GlaxoSmithKline Holdings (Americas)GlaxoSmithKlinepharmaceuticalstax violations2006IRS$3,400,000,000
Merck & Co., Inc.Merckpharmaceuticalstax violations2007IRS$2,300,000,000
(*): Penalty amounts marked by an asterisk are ones announced by more than one agency. Parent penalty totals are adjusted to avoid double-counting.