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Now it is time to look at multinational corporations at a level that transcends specific companies. The tax avoidance methods used by a single company, MNC, can be fully understood and modeled. Extrapolating the effects to the 80 % of US companies listed on the NYSE that have offshore operations will not give precise results, but the principles are similar.

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Wiederhold, G. (2014). Effect on the National Economy. In: Valuing Intellectual Capital. Management for Professionals. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6611-6_9

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