It just violates, it seems to me, everything which you folks should be about, which is trying to get to substance and tr...
Was it just flat out the most important source of U.S. liquidity?
Do you agree that the loan program that we are talking about contained a prescribed schedule from HP's treasury and tax ...
It is kind of lumped together, though, in that slide.
Must they be made within those windows?
And so your analogy does not relate to the U.S. tax reality. It relates to a theoretical reality.
Were they given different quarter endings so that they would be able to provide a continuous series of loans without cro...
It is also true that----
I understand. But it was designed by your tax department.
Was there an ability to move funds from one pool to the other?
I understand. In order to avoid the application of Section 956, these were guidelines.
I am personally offended, which I am, but I am not asking you that.
But 'indefinitely' could mean no definition.
The facts and circumstances of each case must be reviewed to determine if, in substance, there has been a repatriation o...
Had there been some cash pooling?
I do not recall a loan being made that was not in accordance with the guidelines.
the goal is to have a tax policy that is transparent, that is reproducible, that is fair, that does not allow people to ...
If you cannot give me a yes or no, but just repeat the question and say that is what it is, that to me is a yes.
