Medtronic moves its money (and shows off its fancy new European tax rate)

Medtronic Inc., which moved its headquarters to Ireland last year, has transferred almost $10 billion in cash to the U.S. from overseas since then and paid a fraction what it could've owed in taxes if it was still a U.S. company. The Wall Street Journal reports on the cash move by Medtronic(NYSE: MDT), which the med-tech giant disclosed in a securities filing Monday. The company, which had built up huge stores of cash from overseas businesses as a U.S. company, has repatriated $9.8 billion of that…

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