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  • How a corporation can set up a tax haven and use it through transfer pricing. Created by Sal Khan.
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Komentáře • 257

  • @zachkim9929
    @zachkim9929 Před 11 lety +154

    How in the world did he draw Map of USA so perfectly???

    • @abhinavsharma323
      @abhinavsharma323 Před 3 lety +6

      Paper cutting of the map and then drawing on borders

  • @zoechia730
    @zoechia730 Před 7 lety +116

    Thank you, your explanation is much more better than my lecturer.

  • @zeleenne
    @zeleenne Před 3 lety +16

    The amount of videos I have watched from this professor (?) are countless. He explains things so thoroughly and so well. I love love love love love love these videos.

  • @maitrivyas5106
    @maitrivyas5106 Před 3 lety +36

    This video got me a job in Transfer Pricing 😃

    • @fatihaa9186
      @fatihaa9186 Před 3 lety +1

      wait wait, is this real? I mean this video is very helpful tho, but dude that's awesome

    • @maitrivyas5106
      @maitrivyas5106 Před 3 lety +2

      @@fatihaa9186 yep in Big 4 that too :)

    • @fatihaa9186
      @fatihaa9186 Před 3 lety

      @@maitrivyas5106 that's make your story more interesting for me, are you an accounting graduate or what?

    • @maitrivyas5106
      @maitrivyas5106 Před 3 lety

      @@fatihaa9186 eco, maths, stats triple majors

    • @fatihaa9186
      @fatihaa9186 Před 3 lety +1

      @@maitrivyas5106 ok, this comment explain why u got that job haha. I thought u just a random guy without educational background, watched this video and boom! U got that job

  • @ambrosiathe1
    @ambrosiathe1 Před 11 lety +11

    Thanks again for the breakdown, Sal! I love learning from you and Vi! i only hope people keep this information in mind while they watch the Presidential Debates.....

  • @ptmagrath
    @ptmagrath Před 3 lety +6

    Companies are using IP (royalties, trademarks) as well as interest charges by leveraging up the company in the high tax country or management fees charged to the high tax company....or also increasing the price charged for goods ...raw materials, partially converted or finished goods. To round out the full story.

  • @sonixxxxx23
    @sonixxxxx23 Před 2 lety +1

    This was beautifully explained! so clear and concise, loved it!

  • @xavier3961
    @xavier3961 Před 11 lety +3

    Another Great Video!!

  • @jorgevillalobos3269
    @jorgevillalobos3269 Před 11 lety +1

    Fantastic! Great info!

  • @tylerkniess
    @tylerkniess Před 11 lety +2

    Thanks for the info sal!

  • @willofdodge1
    @willofdodge1 Před 11 lety +12

    @khanacademy
    Can your next video be "solving US economy" please
    thank you

  • @user-jx3we5ty4u
    @user-jx3we5ty4u Před 6 lety +1

    this vid helped me so much wow

  • @me_raghav5637
    @me_raghav5637 Před rokem +1

    That was really a great explanation.

  • @TheTripMachine
    @TheTripMachine Před 4 lety +1

    Thank you so much the video was very useful

  • @philippevil5723
    @philippevil5723 Před 11 lety +3

    ur very good at explaining stuff

  • @habibmaryam
    @habibmaryam Před rokem

    Ermm...I understand this so well. Thank you for this video

  • @AuroreAurora
    @AuroreAurora Před 9 lety +6

    Thanks for the video, helped me a lot :-)

  • @Martinezj90
    @Martinezj90 Před 3 lety +1

    Where can I find the other videos explaining the avoidance of repatriation of funds?

  • @claudetgriffinjr
    @claudetgriffinjr Před 11 lety +1

    Very interesting video well done. I've always wondered what was the real reason and how? Next video should be why are so many American companies in Iceland or one of those country's up in the north an

  • @PaxImperium
    @PaxImperium Před 11 lety +1

    Correct!
    Money itself isn't an end, money is used to purchase things.
    Currencies can be transmuted into anything if you have enough, so it makes sense that Businesses would like to have as much money as they can so they can have more things, profit motive right there.

  • @Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time

    This is all based on just one equation (E=ˠ M˳C² )∞ the Lorentz contraction of space and time is between the energy and mass. The greater the energy the greater the contraction of space and the slower time will run. Mass will increase relative to this and each ref-frame can be seen as a vortex in space formed by the rate that time flows. The brackets represent the boundary condition of the ref-frame formed by the energy and the infinity symbol represents an infinite number of ref-frames.

  • @fengxue6466
    @fengxue6466 Před 11 lety +1

    very good thank you

  • @munib1000
    @munib1000 Před 11 lety +2

    NICE ONE SAL

  • @bashkanabe5173
    @bashkanabe5173 Před 6 lety +2

    Thank you very much

  • @danoking69
    @danoking69 Před 11 lety +1

    GREAT VIDEO PLEASE SHARE

  • @onenickelmiracle
    @onenickelmiracle Před 11 lety +1

    Was there any resolution of the first sale doctrine case? I can't find anything online.

  • @adonyz666
    @adonyz666 Před 11 lety +1

    this is a new series

  • @chaitanyap4246
    @chaitanyap4246 Před rokem

    lovely Explanation

  • @sazdakhan8359
    @sazdakhan8359 Před 5 lety

    Very helpful

  • @elecmahm
    @elecmahm Před 11 lety

    I do agree with you on this point.

  • @polka678
    @polka678 Před 3 lety

    Good explanation.

  • @rhyme6300
    @rhyme6300 Před 11 měsíci

    excellent explanation, where to find the video to talk about the repatriation?

  • @ptmagrath
    @ptmagrath Před 3 lety

    Many countries do not tax intercorporate dividends, pre-BEPS .....hence the need to additional rules to ensure Global Intangible Low Tax Income (GILTI) is appropriately taxed at a minimum rate

  • @vallyndumbe3655
    @vallyndumbe3655 Před 2 lety

    very good explanation

  • @steeve3386
    @steeve3386 Před rokem +1

    Where is the video that explains how to bring back that money tax free? Can someone please send me the link?

  • @Mr18to87
    @Mr18to87 Před 11 lety +1

    Cool

  • @cinqueottavi
    @cinqueottavi Před 11 lety +1

    What's the name of the video that talk about repratriation tax?

  • @NavaidSyed
    @NavaidSyed Před 5 lety +3

    I hate the term loophole. Money is always spent in a far better way when in private pockets.

  • @fajarsitinjak4997
    @fajarsitinjak4997 Před 3 lety +1

    There is also tax on cost you paid to another country. Say 20%, so in this case additional tax you pay is 20%of 800K = 160K

  • @antitheist59
    @antitheist59 Před 11 lety +1

    Nice video, just one request, can you change your mouse icon from Hand to Pancil, it will look more natural while looking :)

  • @foresthanke44
    @foresthanke44 Před 11 lety +1

    I read it, I agree. It seems really agressive though, like you disagree with me on something, I can't figure out what though. That's why I'm asking you.

  • @Bunlizlaw
    @Bunlizlaw Před 5 lety

    This is really explanatory!

  • @TheInspiredPlanet
    @TheInspiredPlanet Před 4 lety +2

    I don't think there is a repatriation if the company is set up in Delaware or Nevada, or at least its minimized if that's where its set up.

  • @JR-zc5mq
    @JR-zc5mq Před 11 lety

    Purely... Purely

  • @RenegadeFury
    @RenegadeFury Před 11 lety +5

    that's a really good map lol

  • @johnybravo5667
    @johnybravo5667 Před 3 lety

    So where would the bank account of the shell company be located?

  • @KingCadmos
    @KingCadmos Před 11 lety +1

    How?

  • @PaxImperium
    @PaxImperium Před 11 lety +5

    Central Banking, Government regulation, tariffs go on Wikipedia and look up Keynesian theory, Done? Okay.
    In it's essence Keynesian Theory is if you increase Aggregate Demand on the short run unemployment will decrease, and total income and the standards of living will increase. This has been seen worldwide to work when properly administered, which is why economists strongly support Keynesian theory, because it works.

  • @paralelo53
    @paralelo53 Před 11 lety +5

    Romney-nomics!

  • @klimlib
    @klimlib Před 11 lety +1

    OK. I called it a *model* although I based my statement on anecdotes told by my fellow countrymen who migrated to Sweden about good life there.
    If you consider separately social system and economy, and if you introduce notions such as culture or mentality, then how can you or any1 else form a scientific approach in economic thinking?
    I may take example comparing US and Mexico. Almost the same Constitution and political system, but big difference in wealth or quality of life? Mentality? Culture?

  • @ShermanJr1970
    @ShermanJr1970 Před 11 lety

    Can you tell me now you would use code to make radom problems with the answer.

  • @elecmahm
    @elecmahm Před 11 lety

    I think in order for us to have this discussion, we need to make the a priori assumption of "taxation occurs, and is obligatory to work/do business in the USA".
    Otherwise the discussion is going to continue to have some serious scope creep.

  • @FearMyLazerFace
    @FearMyLazerFace Před 11 lety

    By contrast, something like the relationship between people, corporations and governments is immensely complicated and something that we simply don't have enough data on to make the short, simple, black and white assertions such as the ones you are making.

  • @TheMuscularSheep
    @TheMuscularSheep Před 11 lety

    nicee

  • @klimlib
    @klimlib Před 11 lety +1

    Seems only sustainable model in our times is scandinavic one, altough I can not fully comprehend it.

  • @PhullKnameNullContent
    @PhullKnameNullContent Před 11 lety +1

    A free market is a theoretical construct, like a perfect vacuum. I shudder to imagine what Romney truly believes.

  • @FearMyLazerFace
    @FearMyLazerFace Před 11 lety

    I never said I could teach music, and I don't see how that's relevant. The point is that I have enough understanding of the concepts required to learn music to make an informed judgement on whether or not your analogy is logically consistent and it isn't.

  • @niggaflies
    @niggaflies Před 8 lety +13

    You also forgot taxes paid in another country can be deducted from U.S. tax.

    • @tzywg3399
      @tzywg3399 Před 4 lety +1

      Jake Wish yes however major tax treaty countries such as EU countries, UK and Latin America countries have similar level of corporate tax rate

  • @KingCadmos
    @KingCadmos Před 11 lety +1

    Corruption by definition is lack of control. How else would it exist?

  • @Icyiceice1
    @Icyiceice1 Před 11 lety

    So how does the company repatriate the funds back to the US? Will they still be subject to 35% withholding on net profit repatriation.

  • @KingCadmos
    @KingCadmos Před 11 lety

    How does that tie in to imprisonment and death?

  • @KingCadmos
    @KingCadmos Před 11 lety

    We used to be that way.

  • @FearMyLazerFace
    @FearMyLazerFace Před 11 lety

    If certain checks are in place(checks that are notably absent in the USA), it is possible to make government relatively free of corporate control and corruption, and to ensure they serve the people. If corporations aren't able to make huge campaign contributions in exchange for officials protecting their intrests, and the public is as informed as possible, the only thing that elected officials will be competing for is who can act in a way that is most approved by the public.

  • @Menegoth
    @Menegoth Před 11 lety +1

    I didn't know Sal worked for Apple.

  • @pedroemanuel206
    @pedroemanuel206 Před 7 lety +2

    Favor legendar em português!

    • @nadineahlers2164
      @nadineahlers2164 Před 2 lety +1

      There are Portuguese subtitles. Check the captions option under settings.

  • @Gitohandro
    @Gitohandro Před 8 lety +2

    Explain that last part?

  • @adhominems
    @adhominems Před 11 lety +2

    source plz.

  • @TheRawBabe
    @TheRawBabe Před 10 lety +1

    good idea, but too slow

  • @FearMyLazerFace
    @FearMyLazerFace Před 11 lety +1

    Either you can keep all you money earned to yourself, or you can live in a country with roads, streetlamps, a court system, a functional police force and any number of other things that the government has to pay for, not both.

  • @deadalusdx5637
    @deadalusdx5637 Před 8 lety +27

    So how do you bring that money back to the US? Bitcoin?

    • @jamesblack993
      @jamesblack993 Před 6 lety +14

      Deadalus DX AFAIK, you can't do it legally and tax-free. The most common way is to use the money of foreign subsidiary to invest into parent company, typically via loans. There are also more technical ways of doing it, such as entering into cost sharing agreements and such. The other common way is to pile up cash in foreign subsidiary and wait for the right moment to repatriate profits tax-free. They may use that time to search for new legal loopholes or wait for tax holiday which is quite likely to occur again since US is struggling with tax revenues.

    • @saso-gi9sy
      @saso-gi9sy Před 6 lety +1

      investment gold? d00h... digix dao and similar ethereum based ico's might be moving in your desired direction :)

    • @ThePorschefan
      @ThePorschefan Před 6 lety +2

      Mmmm so the loan not only would be tax free, its interest payments would be deductible, interesting

    • @graceman1300
      @graceman1300 Před 6 lety +1

      JuanFernando Gracia the IRS has weapons to defend such transactions. The loan from foreign entity might be subject to Sec. 956 rules that consider the loan as investment in US property that requires immediate income recognition. Additionally, the interest expense generated by the US entity might not be deductible as it is subject to sec. 163j and related party rules.

    • @anotherks7297
      @anotherks7297 Před 5 lety

      tariffs

  • @PrincessTS01
    @PrincessTS01 Před 11 lety

    A shyster is a slang word for someone who acts in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way, especially in the practice of law, politics or business.

  • @FearMyLazerFace
    @FearMyLazerFace Před 11 lety

    I don't understand how you can possibly imagine characterising the relationship between people, corporations and governments as simple. I am a musician myself, and just because music is abstract does not mean the concepts that someone has to learn in order to understand it on a functional level are complicated. Most concepts involved in teaching young kids music are things like how to read rhythm, pitch and so on, things that follow consistent, rules that are easy to follow once learned.

  • @Heirophanteye
    @Heirophanteye Před 11 lety

    I am not certain the overall economic rate for tax in Canada is lower than in the US.

  • @Thegamemakur
    @Thegamemakur Před 11 lety

    You misspelled transfer in the description.

  • @elecmahm
    @elecmahm Před 11 lety

    Also, please cite the multiple logical fallacies you believe I committed in my prior post. (Both the allegedly fallacious point I made as well as the named fallacy I committed)
    The only logical proposition I wrote was that "something that makes economic sense does not necessarily make good [moral] sense", providing FLSA / Child labor laws as supporting examples.

  • @blahdeblah1975
    @blahdeblah1975 Před 6 lety

    Khan Academy: Tools for the Caliphate.

  • @seatown2000
    @seatown2000 Před 11 lety +14

    This guy has 3 degrees from M.I.T. and a MBA from Harvard i think he's doing more than just educating the poor. Vote for your own interests middleclass the rich certainly do.

  • @williamaulbach
    @williamaulbach Před 11 lety

    The government can pass all of the tax laws and close all of the loopholes that corporations use to get and keep profit. But it will always amount to very little. The amount of money that corporations have vs. the fed gov to figure out new ways to make/exploit loopholes is deafening. And corporations move at the speed of money, where as the gov has to wait months, years if not decades to 'fix' these loopholes. The problem with rich people is they are smart. Thats how they are rich/wealthy.

  • @mariatiti8160
    @mariatiti8160 Před rokem

    How the subsidiary gets all the IP from the parent company?

  • @imadalrawashdeh6853
    @imadalrawashdeh6853 Před 5 lety +2

    But in the case of publicly-traded companies, like Apple, that do transfer pricing like this, how does the public, that owns the company, gets its fare share of the profit if the profit is being transferred abroad to avoid taxes, given that if this profit gets repatriated and distributed as dividends, it would get taxed!

    • @gadget00
      @gadget00 Před 4 lety +2

      not every publicly-traded company pays dividends to stockholders. Your stocks goes up in value, and thats it

  • @Xune2000
    @Xune2000 Před 11 lety

    It's time I got myself incorporated. All that money wasted paying tax needlessly.

  • @mryousmell
    @mryousmell Před 9 lety

    can somebody explain this to me? So if a company tax evade by transfer pricing and end up with a bigger net profit, but this net profit cannot enter back into the country without getting taxed and thus ending up with the same net profit as the company otherwise would have if it didnt do transfer pricing, what is the benefit by doing it then?

    • @jacobs-h398
      @jacobs-h398 Před 7 lety +3

      You could use the subsidiary to buy products abroad on behalf of the parent company?

    • @gopaldangar1050
      @gopaldangar1050 Před 6 lety +2

      Well, you can get loan from that company and use that cash...

  • @surangasa
    @surangasa Před 11 lety

    It only makes sense for big companies.

  • @omgiheartpie
    @omgiheartpie Před 11 lety

    Taxation is not theft since historically every reasonably prosperous or secure group has eventually ended up forming some sort of political or governing institution to administer certain functions that are inherently intractable to carry out via the private sector.

  • @PaxImperium
    @PaxImperium Před 11 lety

    Yeah I wouldn't say music especially with students at 3 years of age would be particularly complex, I agree music can be abstract and require reflection and introspect, but 3 year old children I doubt seriously the complexity of your occupation.
    There's a good reason economists earn upwards 100K annually because their job is actually complex and a great deal relies on the accuracy of their predictions.

  • @spazzmonster
    @spazzmonster Před 11 lety +2

    How may an independent contractor take advantage of this......:)

  • @ronansher
    @ronansher Před 11 lety

    He said that free people shouldn't have to pay taxes. Fair enough, but without tax money none of what I listed gets provided. So instead people have to pay taxes; And to insure they do, imprisonment/death is imposed on those that don't. So, no imprisonment/death means none of what I listed, as people, evidently, won't pay taxes under their own volition.

  • @Chiyenworkout
    @Chiyenworkout Před 11 lety +1

    35% corporate tax is insane! The nation that have less tax have higher growth.

  • @FearMyLazerFace
    @FearMyLazerFace Před 11 lety

    Don't have to pay taxes. My income at present is below the no tax threshhold, and either way, all that would come my way is fines, in order to take back the money I was stealing from my fellow citezens by continuing to use public services while refusing to help pay for them and then imprisonment if I refused to pay those. But, then, I thought we were ending this discussion.

  • @PowerBosnia
    @PowerBosnia Před 3 lety +1

    Why not incorporating the company directly in Delaware or Wyoming?

  • @222Randomness222
    @222Randomness222 Před 11 lety

    government just, you know, makes food more available, keeps the world from going into chaos, and organizes people in a way that we naturally want to be in. Taxes are just, they make the world a better place.

  • @222Randomness222
    @222Randomness222 Před 11 lety +1

    The Pentagon is one building.

  • @KingCadmos
    @KingCadmos Před 11 lety

    Why not?

  • @FearMyLazerFace
    @FearMyLazerFace Před 11 lety

    Are you suggesting to me that in a free market system, that it is completely impossible for any company, anywhere, at any time, under any set of circumstances to gain a monopoly over anything that is a prerequesite for either living, or interacting with society in a meaningful way. Even if there were no monopolies, there would still be some people who had no access to an alternative, and who would be open to exploitation. And I still don't see how you can get past the courts and military issues.

  • @horneproject
    @horneproject Před 11 lety +2

    washing money :)

  • @Carebearbull
    @Carebearbull Před 11 lety

    If you were a student of economics you would have been well aware of the concept "Market Failure"
    That is, a free market creating an outcome which is not (pareto)efficient
    Types:
    - information asymmetries
    - non-competitive markets
    - principal-agent problems
    - externalities
    - public goods
    - natural monopoly

    • @tan4620
      @tan4620 Před 2 lety

      I was surprised by the title: transfer pricing and capital markets. I was wondered how to relate tax avoidance using related party transactions scheme to capital markets. It is hard to find a Professor in a university who has the expertises in both international tax and capital markets.

  • @PaxImperium
    @PaxImperium Před 11 lety

    incorrect, I'm not sure where this notion that Keynesian Economics is a bad thing came from, however Keynesian Theory works, and if you need proof look at Australia's economy who effectively used Stimulus packages along side with a loose monetary policy which shielded them from the GFC.
    And in context Heynes Theory which is polar opposite was rather popular with European countries especially in Greece and look where that's got them.

  • @l2ic3
    @l2ic3 Před 11 lety

    The role of a government is not to supply things the private sector cannot, but to regulate the way the private sector is allowed to work. You cannot have a capitalist economy without someone in control, making sure we don't fuck ourselves over, and keep the greed at least marginally in check. This is the role of the government, and I don't see how you could persist without it.

  • @jackrussel891
    @jackrussel891 Před 5 lety +6

    How do you bring the money back without being taxed?

    • @moneyballmoves
      @moneyballmoves Před 4 lety

      Short of cheating the system, there isn't a way really. However, a company will probably still come out ahead by bringing back the money and paying the corresponding withholding/repatriation tax.

  • @wood9670
    @wood9670 Před 11 lety

    I don't, that was the intended implication of my post. I am a market anarchist or voluntaryst.
    If you decide to respond and ask questions, please be courteous. I have given a lot of thought to my position. I recognize that it is not mainstream. And yes, I recognize the government currently provides services that people like, want, or need.
    I just believe the means by which they are funded and enacted are immoral, inefficient, and can be addressed differently.