transfer pricing
Transfer pricing is the financial sleight of hand by which multinational corporations clandestinely shuttle profits while evading the watchful eyes of tax authorities. By arbitrarily tweaking internal prices of goods and services, funds are guided to the most tax-favored points. Slipping through the holes in accounting standards like a magician, numbers dance behind the scenes of cross-border profit allocation. Exploiting rate differentials and currency fluctuations, it weaves inequality under the noble guise of 'fairness'. By the time auditors spot the trick, a new one has already been set in motion.