Subsidiary X, Located in a Country with a 25% Corporate

question 36

Multiple Choice

Subsidiary X, located in a country with a 25% corporate income tax rate, and Subsidiary Y, located in a country with a 35% corporate income tax rate are part of a decentralized organization. They have been engaged in trade with one another using a negotiated transfer price of $50 per unit for sales by Subsidiary X to Subsidiary Y. Pipko, the parent company of both Subsidiary X and Subsidiary Y recently set a discretionary transfer price of $80 per unit for the transfers between X and Y. What is advantage of this decision?

• A) Net income for Subsidiary X will increase by $30 per unit.
• B) Net income for the corporation as a whole will increase by $30 per unit.
• C) Net income for the corporation as a whole will increase by $3 per unit.
• D) Net income for Subsidiary Y will decrease by $30 per unit.

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Definitions:

Discouraged Workers

Individuals who are not actively seeking employment due to believing that no jobs are available for them or there are no jobs for which they would qualify.

Frictional Unemployment

Unemployment that occurs when people are between jobs or are entering the workforce for the first time.

Imperfect Information

A situation in which parties in a transaction have unequal or inadequate information, leading to market inefficiencies.

Total Employment

The total number of people employed in an economy at a given time, including both full-time and part-time workers.