Michael: > > Sabri: > > > Dear Michael, > > > > Can you be more explicit? What you mean by structures is not > > very clear to me. > > Buildings.
Can this have something to do with the capital versus operating leases in the US? Like, many corporations have "sold" the buildings they bought to a bunch of lawyers who built a shell company and later "leased" the buildings they actually owned from that shell company. But this would slow down the speed of depreciation, wouldn't it? Is this not similar to that Citigroup owns the second largest air fleet after the US air force also decreases the rate of depreciation for the US airlines? What can be the trick here? How do Citigroup and these shell lawyer companies depreciate the "assets" they supposedly own and to what effect? Sabri
