Corporate structural change for tax avoidance: British multinational enterprises and international double taxation between the First and Second World Wars

Ryo Izawa ID

Abstract

This study demonstrates the actual impact of international double taxation on the management of British multinational enterprises between the First and Second World Wars. In particular, it focused on tracing the process by which the tax-minimisation strategy affected corporate-level strategy. In three cases examined using corporate archival sources, the companies reorganised their corporate legal structure for tax avoidance. Yet the effects on their management were not uniform. (1). The corporate structural change for tax avoidance of Rio Tinto and Silica Gel Corporation ...

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