Not sure why they'd announce that they were *not* changing approach of the high-level panels (Cameron, Mbeki) in including MNE avoidance?
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To me quotes show drafters wanted, inter alia, to separately address tax evasion and tax avoidance, and IFFs. Otherwise why separate?
And the final draft goal the HLP came up with was "e) Reduce illicit flows and tax evasion and increase stolen-asset recovery by $x"
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It doesn't make sense to include legal avoidance together with proceeds of crime & corruption in one bucket & then separate out tax evasion
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So they really just forgot avoidance, or deliberately dropped it, after repeating its importance over and over? Seems tortuously unlikely
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Yes, the separation of evasion does suggest they didn't really know what was included in IFF. But zero evidence they meant to exclude avdnce
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I agree it suggests overall they didn't really know, hadn't looked too closely (and probably paid to much attention to the idea of $1trn
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