I have been in enough meetings during my career where one or more of the participants have been accused of comparing apples with oranges, the inference being that two concepts are so dissimilar that ...

The basket is at once detailed—and doomed. Britain’s economists are not quite comparing apples and oranges: both apples (1947-) and oranges (1947-) have been in since the beginning ...

In so doing, he mixes apples with oranges and shows a misunderstanding of how VAT works. VAT is a tax that consumers pay, akin to sales tax. In a VAT regime, producers are reimbursed the tax they ...