And if you do not have it, how did you possibly get to an overall score if you did not cost out the individual provisions, right?
Jeff Merkley: “And if you do not have it, how did you possibly get to an overall score if you did not cost out the individual…”
On the recordJanuary 23, 2018
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Merkley questions the methodology behind the overall tax score without detailed provision costs.
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