Maya Forstater

(1/n) Let me respond. I find it surprising that he writes such an ideological piece to accuse us to be ideological, when we just took data and show some patterns. He only has three critiques. First is that BVI is not a secret jurisdiction. We do not say that in the paper.

(2/3) Furthermore, as himself explains, information is only available at request, which can take several months. Using several layers in compliant OFCs, such as BVI, can delay investigations for years, as I am sure he's aware to. This is not a judgement, just a fact.

(4/4) His last critique is that the results are not new. Firstly, experts are only aware of a few jurisdictions, we study the global pattern. Secondly, the media response proved that OFC need more research. Please do write more papers showing the weight of different jurisdictions

I'm not a fan of all the name calling - 'anti-capitalists', 'evil tax dodgers' etc... and I do think there should be more research - but I wish there was more engagement between practitioners & researchers.

I do think you do more than 'show some patterns'. The basic pattern is the lack of records from offshore jurisdictions in Orbis. From this u conclude 'Sink-OFCs attract and retain foreign capital' but that is a misinterpretation of the pattern of not-being-in-orbis.

Yes, we talked about this before. We show the ownership chains "start" there, and thus BVI and other sink-OFCs are key players in the offshore world.

I think thats what Martin is getting at. It is not news that BVI, Cayman, Bermuda are key players in the offshore world. They question is their impact good or bad? The framing & coverage of yr paper suggests 'bad' but thats not what you studied w the numbers