By using dubious transfer prices, baseball-owners can switch profits from the teams to cable companies.
Starbucks claims they are actually making losses in the UK. I don't know whether they are not but you would need some pretty intensive investigation by the Inland Revenue to establish what exactly is going on, whether their transfer prices and their royalties are being fiddled or not.
But in some ways Willian epitomizes the current state of flux at the highest level of the game: new money flowing in from the edges of Europe, most of the continent's nobility hunkering down in anticipation of Financial Fair Play, the rest knowing they can pick and choose in what's now a buyer's market of falling transfer prices.
And last year the group's patriarch, Lee Kun-hee, resigned after being charged with tax evasion and arranging for shares in Samsung subsidiaries to be sold to his son at artificially low prices in an effort to transfer control to his heir.
Performance measures like energy costs should be measured against an ideal, not a budget, he says, and when divisions transfer products among themselves they should be at market prices for the entire amount of goods being "sold, " not just a portion.
It concerns the proposed transfer of a true national asset (at fire-sale prices, no less): the last American-built and -owned global fiber-optic network.
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Government subsidies effectively transfer a portion of the costs to taxpayers, enabling artificially low prices and inflated profits.
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Use current ownership as a lightning rod, reduce ticket prices, and toss in the old chestnut of substantial transfer funds and what self-respecting Arsenal fan could not be seduced by the notion of new owners?
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For example, the Mexican government could use Oportunidades to transfer more money to its beneficiaries so they can cope with rising food prices.
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