Comments on: Taxation is at the centre of development http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2006/07/14/taxation-is-at-the-centre-of-development/ Richard Murphy on tax and corporate accountability Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:23:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Dennis Howlett http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2006/07/14/taxation-is-at-the-centre-of-development/#comment-17 Dennis Howlett Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:48:38 +0000 http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2006/07/14/taxation-is-at-the-centre-of-development/#comment-17 This is an interesting take Richard but it poses questions that are difficult to answer in a definitive manner. There is for instance a presumption that large locally based companies - like the oil companies in Nigeria - will not use their influence to keep what they see as adverse legislation at bay. Sites like this can become a focus for attention to these matters and, I would suggest, will become a significant platform from which to call errant companies to account. Will it be enough? Will it build into being the influence you clearly hope it will? I sincerely hope so. Much to be done. This is an interesting take Richard but it poses questions that are difficult to answer in a definitive manner. There is for instance a presumption that large locally based companies - like the oil companies in Nigeria - will not use their influence to keep what they see as adverse legislation at bay.

Sites like this can become a focus for attention to these matters and, I would suggest, will become a significant platform from which to call errant companies to account. Will it be enough? Will it build into being the influence you clearly hope it will? I sincerely hope so.

Much to be done.

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