The name of Cardi B's second album. It's also a trick companies use to avoid paying taxes.
The method involves paying a padded amount of interest to another company in order to lower its taxable earnings figure. The company takes out extra loans it doesn't need, so it has excessive interest payments to make, which cut into the amount of profit the authorities can tax.
You are CEO of MultiGlobalHyperTech Inc., a multinational corporation with operations in the U.S. Your U.S. subsidiary earned a profit of $1 billion. You have to pay U.S. taxes on that, but you really don't want to. So...you hatch an earnings stripping scheme.
Your U.S. subsidiary takes out a $5 billion loan from your Irish subsidiary. Corporate taxes are lower in Ireland. You make payments on the $5 billion loan out of the $1 billion in U.S. profits. Those payments have to be taxed as profit for the Irish company, but you end up saving money because of the low taxes there.
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what is an income statement I made money yeah that's an income statement and it's [Man jumping up as money rains down]
actually not all that far off from what accountants lawyers bankers and other
forms of humans who count beans call an income statement well cleverly named an
income statement is a statement of income it just states how you made your [Two guys stood at a food stall]
income your french fries smoothie stand like who would have ever thought that
would taste good sold a million units at five bucks each to give you five million
dollars in revenue last year well you had some cost that went with
those sales though you had to buy cups the french fries and other unnamed [Costs of french fries smoothie stand]
ingredients and you had to pay 2 some ones to stand there and convince people
to drink liquefied potatoes then you had to rent space for your stand and buy
insurance and advertise and that abnoxious mascot in the potato costume
you had five million in revenue and three million in expenses and this [revenue of french fries smoothie stand]
number right here that's your pre-tax or operating profit
you then take away your 30% in taxes which on two million dollars is 600
grand and blammo that 1.4 million is your net income or [net income figure for business]
after-tax profit this whole thing right here is your income statement and yeah [income statement for french fries smoothie business]
it can and does get way way more complex than this but let's start with starch
smoothies and work our way up [man at french fry stand thinking about selling sushi shakes]
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