Transparency isn't everything
- Does it have any real validity or just another hoop?
- Is the requirement too one-sided?
- There’s an overwhleming argument to simplify
Musing over the word transparency, our correspondent referred to the dictionary to look up “transparent”.Various meanings given were not useful here, but the following helped her along : “easy to see through, understand, or recognise; obvious; candid, open or frank.”
A tax system which is easy to understand, tax policy that is candid and open. Oh dear, how very far away from a transparent tax system we are at present.
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