Introduction
Today’s column considers the third modeled driver and metrics related to the affordability of the Buxton Proposal; Government Take or the average effective tax rate, AETR, yielded by the Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) regime governing Guyana’s oil exploration, development and production.
I have lamented multiple times that, local debates have been overburdened with noise and nonsense, which is hard to disentangle from propaganda. A downright manipulative and deceitful dis-information and mis-information onslaught is underway in the social, digital, and sections of the print media.
To aid readers through all this, I offer below ten summary clarifications related to widely manipulated notions
