Talk:Branch plant economy

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I have reverted the edit stating that there may be little incentive to operate a branch plant at a profit, and that parent companies would operate at cost instead. There is always an incentive to make a profit. The question is, can you make sure that your profits are located in a low-tax jurisdiction instead of a high-tax one. Ways of doing this include "transfer pricing", e.g., parent company in low-tax country sells inputs to branch plant in high-tax country at a substantial mark-up to make sure that the branch plant doesn't make money. Or, it buys the branch plant's output at blow market value for the same reason. However, the Department of Finance has cottoned on to these strategies, and has developed transfer pricing rules to make sure that intra-corporate group transaction across borders occur at fair market value. There are also "thin capitalization rules" to prevent a parent from using debt transactions to drain profits out of Canada. Ground Zero 20:00, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Nonetheless, highly relevant if considering the whole period from 1860 to present. User:Peter Grey 23:22, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Since the Income Tax was introduced in 1917, I don't think there was an incentive to shift income in this manner before that. I don't know when the transfer pricing rules were introduced. Do you have a reference for the original statement? That would simplify things. Thanks. Ground Zero 13:17, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC) branch is a funny word hehe —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.66.165.31 (talk) 00:58, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Significant plagiarism
This article consists of significant plagiarism of its single source homo momo (talk) 20:01, 5 February 2024 (UTC)


 * It also seems the term has become less and less relevant since the 1970s. It's rather hard to find current sources discussing this term in the current day, except as some sort of retrospective at the other end of globalization.
 * Much of the work that originates this is in sources from the 70s from Canada and Scotland... which makes it rather annoying to figure out and find good sources so far for this. homo momo (talk) 05:09, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
 * removed plagiarism.
 * source 1 seems to suggest that branch plant economy is a term that only applies in 1970s… but would like to find a more concrete bit of info on when it really fell off User:Sawerchessread (talk) 16:17, 10 April 2024 (UTC)