11. Sister Subsidiaries. Subsidiary Alpha in Country Able faces a 40% income tax rate. Subsidiary Beta in

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11. Sister Subsidiaries. Subsidiary Alpha in Country Able faces a 40% income tax rate. Subsidiary Beta in Country Baker faces only a 20% income tax rate. Presently, cach subsidiary imports from the other an amount of goods and services exactly equal in mon- etary value to what each exports to the other. This method of balancing intracompany trade was imposed by a management keen to reduce all costs, including the costs (spread between bid and ask) of foreign exchange transactions. Both subsidiaries are profitable, and both could purchase all components domestically at approximately the same prices as they are paying to their foreign sister subsidiary. Does this seem like an optimal situation?

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Fundamentals Of Multinational Finance

ISBN: 9780321541642

3rd Edition

Authors: Michael H. Moffett, Arthur I. Stonehill, David K. Eiteman

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