Zucman is part of the new generation of tax justice campaigners for whom gestures (like supporting the UN rather than the OECD to deliver tax reform) matter much more than actually effecting change. The world could discuss Zucman’s idea for twenty years and get nowhere. Or it could get on with the suggestions I have made and without fuss deliver real additional revenues, fairer tax systems and much reduced inequality.
I have always been on the side of pragmatic tax justice. The fantasists who now dominate civil society debate on this issue do the cause no favours, whilst impeding practical progress considerably. None of them paper to gave ever worked in tax. They really are not helping a cause to which I dedicated many years of work.
Not that I favour Zucman’s work either – it’s technically wrong to my mind – but I do try not to be quite so arrogant about it
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