Higher compensation does not establish the duties test. Financial records may support a genuine proposal but do not replace evidence of authority and execution.
Keep the salary evidence in context
Explain the work performed and who carries out operations rather than equating senior pay with qualifying management.
Keep client-travel costs distinct from official immigration charges and avoid treating an expensive itinerary as evidence that routine work has become managerial. The acquisition price of the U.S. towing operation therefore appears in the file only as evidence, showing that the subsidiary is real, that it was actually purchased and that the parent has the means to support the position. On the venture side sit the real operating costs, and for a new office they are unavoidable rather than optional: premises that actually exist, payroll for the staff who make the role managerial, equipment and insurance. The costs that are harder to predict are the professional ones: reconstructing the corporate chain, preparing staffing evidence, and answering a request for evidence about managerial capacity if the first submission was thin.