correct

we have 2 right answers from two senior associates...

(imagine being up this late and chatting with the ceo)...

but you are absolutely correct... if the data is not normalized in both
worlds, then you pay a penalty either by loss of information whenever that
data is in scope... or having to pay taxes from the other world where it's
not normalized when you hve it in your own normalized scope... either way...
it's a problem...