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It wasn't posted to help people draw informed conclusions it was posted entirely as an attempt to baffle people with bs and bring them around to the position Hamish has decided is right and won't budge from.
Anyone with more than rudimentary mathematical/economic knowledge, including I suspect Hamish, would know that chart projection means nothing.
Given the past few years. What tax losses do the banks have in hand. Before they will pass money across to the treasury in the form of Corporation Tax receipts.0 -
...It's quite difficult to draw any conclusions really however as the trend line doesn't take into account any other periods of economic difficulty.
agreed.
i've not really thought it through doesn't that chart mostly just show the big VAT cut running from about the end of 2008 to about the end of 2009?FACT.0
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