The final sentence then admits the indicator will be at inaccurate. So how big is that and why try to use this artificial benchmark? Is it not like using the policy gap to redefine and remeasure the tax gap.
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Replying to @iaincampbell07 @DanNeidle and
OK so I tried the indicator calculation out on Pearson (since they publish CBCR)pic.twitter.com/BHT6A0yYzI
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Replying to @MForstater @iaincampbell07 and
Here is the result. A billion of IFF/profit shifting out of the US (in order to increase its loss there?!?) into mainly UK & China https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1J6a_fYcthaaD5MKtfyV971-foP1aVI3TcmDAy1KalNk/edit?usp=sharing … Not sure this makes any sense ( or sits with illicit arms sales, stolen assets & organised crime?)pic.twitter.com/iD1OsKHvxo
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Replying to @MForstater @iaincampbell07 and
That report you are using does actually beg a lot of questions, even though you are using a very anomalous year to say the least. Their statutory profit differs from their adjusted operating profit due to 2.7bn worth of intangible charges?pic.twitter.com/3kvpSZrD5E
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Replying to @georgenturner @MForstater and
So we have a company which makes a loss of over 2bn, but their management accounts show an operating profit of 600m because more than 50% of the revenue is paid out in 'intangible charges' and your response to this is - move along nothing to see here?
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Replying to @georgenturner @MForstater and
This is from the latest Pearson annual report. Basically the entire $2.5bn hit on intangibles was due to write downs on goodwill in North America. This is an entirely paper transaction that would have severely impacted the statutory profit in the USA.pic.twitter.com/xlbkpEYA29
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Replying to @georgenturner @MForstater and
And isn't this precisely the point - the management of Pearson exclude these transactions from their investment decisions and business analysis, because in their own words they do not reflect current performance.
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Replying to @georgenturner @MForstater and
It seems to me that if you wanted an example showing the importance of measures of real economic activity - this is it.
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Replying to @georgenturner @MForstater and
And yet...the write down of acquisition goodwill is not optional under accounting standards, and is almost certainly not tax deductible. So yes it’s complex (and you may disagree with the accounting standard) but does it indicate avoidance? No, IMO.
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Replying to @hselftax @georgenturner and
I think the question is not whether the writedown is legit (we surely must assume so), but whether it provides a tax reason for the apparent pattern of profit misalignment - even in this most unusual example that Maya has chosen?
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Seriously. I 'chose' this year because that was the year there was. Write-downs, losses are ordinary things. If the formula interprets them as "illicit" then the formula may not be reliable to track illicit flows. I also looked at LUSH.https://twitter.com/MForstater/status/1012650616932454400 …
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Replying to @MForstater @alexcobham and
Hi Alex, I've got a clarification question. Here you say "π𝑖 is the share of all multinationals’ gross profits declared in jurisdiction i" I don't think you mean *share*? Isn't π𝑖 the gross profits of MNCs declared in that jurisdiction?pic.twitter.com/Vj7Ro52loJ
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Replying to @MForstater
Thanks Maya. Not just because it's Friday night, but can I ask you to put comments/queries/criticism on the book either online in github, or in an email?
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