Illicit Flows and Trade Misinvoicing:Are we Looking Under the Wrong Lamppost?
- CMI Insight Number 5
- Norway CMI (Chr. Michelsen Institute 2016
- 8p.
Large estimates of trade misinvoicing have played a key role in shaping perceptions of the subject of IFFs, with various estimates and figures being thrown around. This briefing looks at some of the key problems with these estimates and argues that continuing to use them as such a bright point of light in shaping our understanding could impede, rather than support targeting of effective action in combatting corruption, organized crime, illegal exploitation of natural resources and tax evasion.
