My husband accepted a job offer from a small company and the office manager/HR person told us that they allowed $700 for health insurance. We could either choose to use it to pay for the health insurance they had or use it to buy health insurance elsewhere. I, you all know, hate Obamacare and knew that being allowed the freedom to buy whatever insurance I wanted with that $700 would not be allowed - and sure enough, if caught, this small company would have to pay $100 PER DAY PER EMPLOYEE. The poor HR lady was flabbergasted - this error, if caught, would shut the company down. I'm relatively sure that her next request was to ask the boss if they could afford a lawyer/CPA to check if they were violating any other rule.
He also worked for the drug company Actavis. Rumor went around that Allergan was acquiring Actavis, not for any drug Actavis had, but simply because of tax reasons. Actavis had re-organized in Ireland and paid less taxes. That merger/take over took place fine. Then Pfizer tried to take over Allergan for the same reason. Unfortunately for them, the government got wind of it and put in new rules and well, in effect, stopped the merger because if there was no tax advantage, there was no reason to merge. I am in favor of lowering the corporate tax rate so that these companies have no reason to merge/run to Ireland/Canada (Burger King)/wherever (and close off the loopholes) - but just the mere mention of that gets most of you up in arms (tee hee).