Maya Forstater

The key $100bn figure they quote is misleading. Very little of it relates to Africa.

Nor does the film or campaign. It's a global issue.

That’s incorrect. The WHO data they cite relates to poor countries to which only 15% of the $100bn relates. That’s highly misleading.

What's incorrect in what I said? I said tax dodging is a global issue. It is. And the film doesn't relate to Africa. Which it doesn't.

72% of the WHO estimates relates to LICs and LMICs. The $100 bn avoidance estimate mainly (85%) relates to UMIC and HIC developing countries -- taxes collected in China & Mexico will not be spent on basic healthcare in Malawi & Cambodia.

Mathew - Now I am wonder if you had seen the criticism of the video?

I have but don't agree with you. People have to be engaged before they'll even hear the reasoned facts. The film is a creative (& non-geog specific) allegory on the consequences of tax dodging that does that. 1 million have seen it, now open to further info on tax and inequality.

That sounds like a defence the Daily Mail could run. Getting people engaged by creating outrage at things that ain’t true. I’ll pass.