Ritchie's vain boast on country by country reporting
Posted by Christie Malry on March 11, 2013 at 9:29 pm
Perhaps [Dave Hartnett would] also like to explain why he assumes the user of accounts aren’table to appraise local incentives? Are we not as clever as him?
When Ritchie himself can't even calculate tax properly, what hope is there for lesser mortals?
I blogged about the fundamental problems with country by country reporting some time ago. Those problems still remain. It's not a case of being clever; CBCR simply doesn't provide the information needed to make an informed opinion.
In the meantime, we can always rely upon Ritchie to make an uninformed one.
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He can't calculate an average either: (see first comment thread): http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2012/11/22/every-one-of-the-41000-tax-avoiders-identified-by-the-national-audit-office-is-costing-the-country-248780/ Or apparently understand what they are; only in the most bizarre set of real life circumstances could every single avoider cost exactly the average; in real life I think we can by definition say that some of the values will be below average and some above.
"Best to check your facts Bob – because getting the details wrong undermines all you say. "