Richard Murphy’s post entitled: The Oxford Centre for Business Taxation Does Promote Low Taxes will go down as a blog post pick for 2007 for anyone who has a discerning eye for clear analysis tinged with just the right amount of contempt for bankrupt thinking. It is a very long read but beautifully crafted nonetheless. My favourite section:
The most important one is your argument that corporations cannot pay tax. This is not true. I do not think it too rash of me to say that only an economist could reach such a conclusion. It is tantamount to asking the man on the Clapham omnibus to believe that Tescos does not exist, despite the evidence before his eyes. And yet it is an assumption that appears to underpin much, if not all your work. Despite this it is actually no more than a statement of faith for which there is no evidential support. It almost amuses me to consider how Richard Dawkins might dismiss such a claim.
Having listened to Dawkins on several occasions, it is reasonably safe to assume he would describe Mike Devereux, Director of the Oxford Centre for Business Taxation’s analysis and the subject of Richard’s deft filleting as…poppycock. As would most sane men of reason.
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