Maya Forstater

How can it be that "The definition of an illicit financial flow has always included tax avoidance" if no consensus. & many don't?

e.g. working defns by @ATAFtax @OECD @WorldBank @GFI_Tweets. Cameron HLP talks about avoidance & IFFs, but did not define as same thing.

May have misunderstood. Maya defn deemed to = evasion. Alex but MNCs not excluded. Is MNC linkage to IFF only poss if guilty of evasion?

Or I think, conceptually, a little wider - e.g. Evasion that isn’t caught is still an IFF

Avoidance in because: Definitional (illegal =\= illicit) Technical (robustness of estimates) Political (avoidance at core of SDG agreement)

If avoidance was at the core of the SDG definition of IFFs & agreed by all you have thought some one would have written that down.

I refer you to all the references in the speech, letters etc, and especially the two HLP reports that underpin the entire 16.4 agreement.

There's simply no question of what was agreed politically - regardless of the lobbying agendas now in play.