Maya Forstater

Some of us have been trying, for quite a long time! Wrote this in 2003 https://www.taxjournal.com/articles/question-trust-22466 …

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.

Also, debunking someone's else's arguments is always a step removed from the actual story. That's hard to sell to the media.

Yup - and "this thing you think is a story, isn't a story" never seems very attractive to journalists.

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.

But of course, that was one article. Very hard to stem the tide! @VanessaHoulder1 rare in wanting to understand before writing.....

But she is FT! P Bigger problem is guardian/daily mail, same very low level with bigger/smaller words.

But do tax pros give journalists a response in *their* language? Have to sacrifice detail and sometimes accuracy for clarity ... :)