The phrase "artificially diverted" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where something has been redirected or changed in a way that is not natural or organic.
Example: "The river's flow was artificially diverted to create a new irrigation system for the farmland."
Alternatives: "unnaturally redirected" or "man-made diversion".
At worst, they do damage, artificially diverting trade away from excluded countries or clogging up commerce with fiendishly complicated "rules of origin".
Committee chair Margaret Hodge said: "Contrary to its denials, the tax arrangements PwC promotes, based on artificially diverting profits to Luxembourg through intra-company loans, bear all the characteristics of a mass-marketed tax avoidance scheme".
As the Commission notes in its initial filings, Google's online shopping services failed miserably until it began favoring its own shopping services in its search-engine results, so its "conduct may therefore artificially divert traffic from rival comparison shopping services and hinder their ability to compete, to the detriment of consumers, as well as stifling innovation".
He believes this reform – known as the common consolidated corporate tax base (CCCTB) – would remove the temptation for international firms to artificially divert income from one country to another.
Last year, the then British chancellor George Osborne introduced a new punitive tax, known as the diverted profits tax, designed to target tech businesses artificially shifting UK revenues abroad.
It appears that increased recharge within the riparian zone, as compared to the artificially drained field, caused nitrate-rich groundwater from the field to be diverted downward beneath the riparian zone, thus limiting the input of agrochemicals to the riparian area and consequently protecting the stream from potential contamination.
The chancellor, George Osborne, had claimed Google's settlement was thanks to his diverted profits tax (DPT), which was introduced last year to target multinationals artificially routing profits overseas.
As UK chancellor, Osborne introduced a new punitive tax, known as the diverted profits tax, which he said would hit companies found to be artificially shifting UK income overseas.
