The ongoing misleading use of tax data by @Oxfam and others has consequences. Here it’s led @CGDev to make a provably wrong policy recommendation.https://twitter.com/MForstater/status/1124240755906830336 …
This doesn't come from @oxfam it comes from @imfnews! (but relates to all non-OECD countries not SSA). I don't know why the IMF and co. give quite so much confidence to this number when the authors say it was highly speculative.pic.twitter.com/XVKNUtMm5X
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In the back they say "subsequent studies reach similar conclusions". Which is weird because they cite Cobham & Jansky which is obviously going to reach similar conclusions because its basically the same methodology and data.pic.twitter.com/AmjgioRKZJ
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And then they cite Tørsløv, Wier, and Zucman as supporting the scale of the $200 bn estimate, when in fact their numbers are way much smaller. https://www.cgdev.org/publication/reading-missing-profits-nations …pic.twitter.com/IPwIiy0yDv
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And one of the main researchers in this area - Petr Janksy - said this January the Torslov study is the most authoritative. You can see it is far below the Crivelli figures.pic.twitter.com/cFHdJmSs7e
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