This one is too good to be true.
Burger King is planning to buy Tim Hortons – a Canadian coffee-and-doughnut chain.
Forget for a second that this is 2014 and doughnuts are, shall we say, a bit out of fashion,
Conventional wisdom is that BK isn’t strategically driving thru the doughnut hole left by Krispy Kreme’s woes.
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Though the company denies it, BK seems aimed at turning things upside down tax=wise.
You know, “invert” itself into a Canadian company so that it doesn’t have to pay U.S. taxes on money it earns outside the boundaries of the U.S.
Here’s where things start to get interesting ….
