00:00Your favorite global clothing brand pays billions of dollars to rent its own logo from itself.
00:06This is the trademark licensing strategy specifically designed to move massive corporate profits across invisible borders.
00:15They transfer the brand's legal trademark rights to a paper office located within a tropical haven.
00:22Then, the domestic branches pay astronomical licensing fees for the basic right to use the name.
00:30These royalty payments are categorized as massive business expenses.
00:35This effectively erases their taxable corporate income locally.
00:40While you pay full taxes on every dollar, they are simply paying rent to themselves.
00:46This artificial internal debt creates a massive tax deduction.
00:50The average worker can never legally access it.
00:53The capital never actually leaves the ultimate control.
00:56It simply shifts into a much more favorable jurisdiction.
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