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Business and sustainable development. Accountability. Tax. Feminist test case. Media: Tom Gardner at Slater & Gordon 0207 657 1690 press@slatergordon.co.uk

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    1. Maya Forstater‏ @MForstater Jul 29
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      Maybe the fraudsters are achieving this 'heads I win, tails you lose' outcome through clever means and dodgy accounting all along the chain, but its a lot of assumption to come up with the number.

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    2. Maya Forstater‏ @MForstater Jul 29
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      Uncollected VAT on apparently underpriced imports is the biggest one. But unless the importers are the final consumer, or the products are going into the black market surely the VAT would be collected anyway down the line? 🤔

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    3. Maya Forstater‏ @MForstater Jul 29
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      Why are GFI, the funder of this report @FordFoundation , the members of the transparency and accountability community @TAInitiative @FinTrCo all so willing to keep churning out these reports, and so uninterested in scrutinising and seriously considering their findings?

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    4. Maya Forstater‏ @MForstater Jul 29
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      If you believe the misinvoicing methodology works to uncover real large scale fraud you should be chasing down the story of the Ireland-Egypt essential oil trade, not bundling it into a spurious headline about billions for the SDGs.pic.twitter.com/jDInBFB1iA

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    5. Maya Forstater‏ @MForstater Jul 29
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      .... Unless the whole point of the methodology is to come up with big numbers. ..... because they can be used to argue for policies on transparency and accountability....

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    6. Maya Forstater‏ @MForstater Jul 29
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      I like transparency and accountability. Its a good hypothesis and hope. The idea that if people have access to data about what their govt & other powerful organisations are doing they will hold them accountable. But it is a dynamic that has to be built by people & organisations

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    7. Maya Forstater‏ @MForstater Jul 29
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      How can foundations contribute to that that if they are satisfied to keep funding the same organisations to produce the same reports, with the same lack of curiosity and scrutiny. ....."We need more transparency!" But don't look too closely at the analysis!

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    8. Mike Lewis‏ @Bakhunin Jul 31
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      I can't speak to the GFI report either way, but this seems to be part of a larger issue with what in my day job gets called OSINT.

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    9. Mike Lewis‏ @Bakhunin Jul 31
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      OSINT can be amazing, but I spend hours arguing that if you want to know how weapons move around illicitly you also need to speak to real people who illicitly move weapons around. Ditto essential oils. (Same could be said of much of the economics profession, of course!)

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    10. Maya Forstater‏ @MForstater Jul 31
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      Yes. There's a meta-point (that's the same point that's been bugging me since I first shouted "why does know one notice if there's billions hiding in Zambia -Swiss copper", but clearly I'm slow on the uptake)

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      Maya Forstater‏ @MForstater Jul 31
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      Which is that no one in the whole system of funding, producing, circulating, reproducing, legitimising these reports seems to have the slightest interest in whether there is or isn't money hidden in Irish -Egyptian essential oil trade (or whatever)

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        2. Mike Lewis‏ @Bakhunin Jul 31
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          I'm not so sure about that? Clearly GFI and others care very much about it - not least because they (and I) want to recoup state revenue from it. It seems to me the question is not a lack of interest about that question, but whether their answer is right?

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        3. Maya Forstater‏ @MForstater Aug 1
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          But that's what I mean. No one seems least bit interested in whether Egypt really is losing 0.5% of govt revenues to Irish essential oil import tax fraud (😕) . There's no point wanting govt to recover imaginary revenues. You'd think ppl would want to kbow if this is a real thing

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