Talk:Round-tripping (finance)

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The facts in the article were unsourced. I added sources for some, will look for the rest. Text for unsourced allegations moved here. (found sources for marked through text) FloNight ^talk 18:12, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

They played a crucial part in temporarily inflating the market capitalization of dot-coms such as Worldcom, energy traders such as ~~Enron and Dynegy~~, fiber optics networkers such as ~~Qwest and Global Crossing~~, digital communication companies such as ~~AOL~~ and WebEx, and computer hardware manufacturers such as ~~Sun~~ and Cisco.

Round-tripping is clearly documented in WebEx's annual reports. See e.g. its 2003 report [1], acknowledging on p. 5 that 11% of its revenue comes from distribution partners that admittedly include portals. These portals account for a substantial fraction of WebEx's advertising costs documented on p. 50. WebEx expressly admits its round-tripping arrangement with "a Chinese reseller" on p. 17. In view of the company's history, the details of the loan arrangement appear to signal self-dealing by its Chinese-connected executives. Please see Sun's annual reports for similar corroboration. Henryuzi 05:37, 1 March 2006 (UTC)henryuzi[reply]

Henryuzi, thank-you for the feedback.FloNight ^talk 15:34, 1 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The second paragraph of this article discussing round-tripping as a method to evade taxes seems to refer to the practice of domestic investors using a foreign shell company to take advantage of tax incentives that are only available to foreign investors. That is a very different sort of transaction than the one discussed by this article.