[Tax] Oh @Oxfam. Oh @icij.... really?? really?? So Bob Geldof has a private equity company which invests in firms in Africa, and it structures through Mauritius (along with all the DFIs, IFC etcc) ...and....waves hands..."leak exposes multinationals siphoning tax revenues"https://twitter.com/oxfamwestafrica/status/1153602853631602688 …
And relying on celebrity 'scandal' is a cheap trick which suggests there may not be much else that is interesting or troublesome in the rest of #mauritiusleaks (I don't know, i haven't looked closely - if there is a real story why not lead with that instead of a nonsense story?)
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unfortunately, tying the issue to a celebrity may be what it takes to get some attention to the issue
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There's a research paper from
@TARC2013 available at https://tarc.exeter.ac.uk/media/universityofexeter/businessschool/documents/centres/tarc/publications/discussionpapers/Gamannossi_Rablen_Relative_Avoidance.pdf … which supports that very point.
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Lol, if the team get's more leaks, I will ask
@WillFitzgibbon that we consider you to assist. ...to write about the less important people and up the teams responsibility.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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