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Comment by AmericanChopper

3 years ago

You’d expect to run into transfer pricing issues if did that, unless you’d already structured your company avoid those problems. This problem here, and many others like it stem from the fact that corporate tax is a stupid concept. It doesn’t generate any additional tax revenue, because any tax that is paid as corporate tax will simply be used to offset taxes that would otherwise be paid as income tax. It also simply preferences operating models which are more accessible to large companies, disadvantaging SMEs. Any company can theoretically choose to not be profitable, by reinvesting all of its profits, and investors typically don’t care if their value is returned via growth or dividends. But many SME operators do, and the accounting and compliance costs associated with that place a higher burden on SMEs. But the whole debate around the topic is muddied by people who intentionally misrepresent how these systems work for their political gain, and their followers who don’t understand how these systems work (until some stupid change like this affects them, and the stupidity of the system is made clear).