Patent ID: 7974903
Filing Date: 2011-07-05
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method, including: receiving by a computer-based system user-defined inputs representing one or more target distribution amounts corresponding to currency totals for one or more foreign entities to distribute to one or more domestic entities in one or more years, the one or more foreign entities being direct or indirect subsidiaries of the one or more domestic entities; receiving and storing by the computer-based system electronic entity data pertaining to tax relevant attributes for the one or more domestic and foreign entities over the one or more years; receiving by the computer-based system user-defined inputs representing distribution constraints for each foreign entity, the distribution constraints including a minimum distribution amount and a maximum distribution amount for each foreign entity in each year; creating by the computer-based system outputs representing one or more distribution scenarios including corresponding tax costs based on the entity data and the distribution constraints; and identifying by the computer-based system a distribution scenario from the one or more distribution scenarios having a lowest tax and meeting the one or more target distribution amounts.