Maya Forstater

[Tax] I know its only a blog post, but its by the @IMFNews , and its really, really poor. Full of bait-and-switch tricks instead of serious analysis. IMF should do better!https://twitter.com/IMFNews/status/1152640578926125063 …

First bait and switch Tweet says Corporate tax revenue: how low can you go? "In life, two things are certain: death & taxes. Unless you are a large multinational corporation, in which case, maybe not. ".... and then chart of... falling corporate income tax RATES

Second bait-and-switch (this ones more of a non sequitur) [falling corporate tax rates] are a problem because the "ease with which multinationals seem able to avoid tax, combined with decline in corporate tax rates undermines both tax revenue & faith in fairness" (eh?)

Third bait-and-switch "The current situation is especially harmful to low-income countries" followed by "IMF analysis shows, for example, that non-OECD countries lose about $200 billion in revenue per year" non OECD countries =/= low income countries.