The Obama administration is pushing for legislation that will not only to end inversions, which allow companies to save on taxes by reincorporating abroad, but also apply that legislation retroactively, The New York Times reports.

The Treasury Department’s assistant secretary for tax policy, Mark Mazur, argued in a blog post that any new laws relating to inversions should be backdated to May 2014.

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