A very fair point - but tax perhaps unusual that so many of us have absented ourselves from the debate.
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Replying to @DanNeidle @BenSaund
Some of us have been trying, for quite a long time! Wrote this in 2003 https://www.taxjournal.com/articles/question-trust-22466 …
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Part of the difficulty is that for most of us, we write in our "spare" time. Hard to get as much airtime as those who are paid to do it.
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Also, debunking someone's else's arguments is always a step removed from the actual story. That's hard to sell to the media.
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Yup - and "this thing you think is a story, isn't a story" never seems very attractive to journalists.
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Replying to @DanNeidle @BenSaund
Managed it once. Trade journo wanted to write on why infrastructure cos didn't pay much tax. After I'd bee thro CAs, def tax etc he gave up.
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But of course, that was one article. Very hard to stem the tide!
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Replying to @hselftax @DanNeidle and
But she is FT! P Bigger problem is guardian/daily mail, same very low level with bigger/smaller words.
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But do tax pros give journalists a response in *their* language? Have to sacrifice detail and sometimes accuracy for clarity ... :)
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Sometimes the detail is important. But when not, yes, tax pros should get comfortable making generalisations.
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I think some kind of sense-about-tax org needed (cf: http://senseaboutscience.org/ ) to make it more the norm. ....
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Replying to @MForstater @BenSaund and
...not just for tax folk to put 'their side' but for public understanding of complex stuff that matters - going beyond data to build trust
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agree but media, (FT apart) more interested in 'story' than reason
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