The shirts off their backs: How tax policies fleece the poor
Source: One World Network
As world leaders gather in New York for a UN summit examining progress towards halving world poverty, a new Christian Aid briefing paper shows how poor countries are losing hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue as rich individuals and multinational companies avoid paying their tax.
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The Shirts off their Backs warns that unless massive gaps in poor countries’ revenues are plugged by responsible tax policies and international action to curb tax havens, the UN’s poverty targets will be missed. The briefing shows how poorer countries are losing US$500 billion (£270 billion) a year in revenues to prosperous international tax dodgers.
The shirts off their backs is being published alongside ‘Tax us if you can’, a report from the Tax Justice Network, a Christian Aid partner, which targets multinational companies, the accountancy industry and banks for their part in undermining taxation in the developing world. Read the Tax Justice Network report.
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