Examples of such projects providing marginal benefits are: improving financial reporting
systems through better information technology, minor tweaks to supply chain logistics, cutting back on
marketing or increasing low - cost advertising (like social media), «rationalization» of head count, holding average wages as low as possible, squeezing suppliers a little bit, not repatriating earnings to stave off taxation, refinancing rather
than retiring debts, and the share buyback that is insensitive to a company's
current stock price.
A critical flaw of the
current system is that the «slab» structure of the tax causes distortions in the
market as rates are applied to the entire value of the property, rather
than the marginal value above each threshold.