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thin capitalization

noun

C2CEFR level
88/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

The financing of a subsidiary with excessive debt relative to equity so as to strip taxable profit through deductible interest.

The transfer-pricing team flagged thin capitalization once the debt-to-equity ratio hit five to one.

Similar: earnings stripping

Topic: Tax law in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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