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Its election time…
Put tax justice on the mapPhoto: Kristian Buus/ ActionAid
The financial crisis has left the economy in a mess
We’ve been through the deepest recession on record
We’re facing
An enormous deficit…Cuts in public spending…
Tax rises
The World Bank predicted that thefinancial crisis could trap 53 million
more people into povertyhttp://bit.ly/axBjmZ
Alicket Masenda, Malawi. 'I am affected by the rising food price because I don't have any income and can't buy anything. The children had no food since the morning"
Photo: Frederic Courbet/Panos Picures/ActionAid
“Savage” cuts on public servicesNick Clegg
Politicians are talking about
“Difficult decisions” to cut the deficitDavid Cameron
The "tough truth” and “hard choices" for the economy to recoverGordon Brown
But there is another solution, which could make a big difference…
to build a fairer system
We need
Tax revenues are essential for all countries. In developing countries they pay for things suchas doctors and teachers’salaries that can’t be easily covered by short term aid.
So what are we calling for?
One…
A small tax on the banks to help pay for the fall out of the financial crisis AKA
A 0.05 per cent tax on speculative banking transactions like foreign exchange, derivatives trading and share deals, can raise hundreds of
billions of pounds every year.
Money that can help stop cuts in crucial public services in the UK,
And aid the fight against global poverty and climate change.Photo: Andrew Aitchison/Oxfam
Without tax justice, children will continue to be denied an education.International aid can help build schools – but teachers have to be paid by government tax revenues.
Akalam Amlama works in Miyuyu village in remote southern Tanzania. His village now has a school, but he’s faced with the impossible task of teaching 170 children on his own.
“I have to teach the children one grade at a time, while the other children have to go outside and play!”Photo:Andrew McConnell/Panos
Pictures/ActionAid
Two…
Multinational companies to pay all the taxes they owe both here and in poor countries
Poor countries lose more to tax evasion by multinationalsthan they receive in aid.
Many multi nationals siphon their profits out of poor countries (and indeed the UK) into tax havens. The first step to tackle this is greater transparency.
At the moment companies only have to publish one global set of accounts.
We want them to publish a basic set of accounts in every country they work in.
This would make it clear to everyone which companies are paying their fair share, and which are dodging the taxes they owe.
1 staff member = £10m profit. That’s worth investigating…
Both solutions could raise billions for our economy and for poor countries around the world.
Achieving tax justice could see whole countries breaking out of the cycle of poverty …
foreverPhoto: BrianSokol/ActionAid
And
It would help ordinary tax payers
here in the UK too.
The election is going to be really close.
Politicians will be listening to
what you have to say
Make your voice heard.Ask your candidates to put tax justice
on the map!
Photo: Kristian Buus/ ActionAid
This election, ActionAid wants to put tax justice on the map
We want every candidate to support our calls for tax justice
What can you do?
Visit actionaid.org.uk/taxjustice
• Email your candidates• Meet your candidates face to face
– ask them a taxing question• Organise a hustings• Get tax justice in your local media• Spread the word blog, tweet and facebook for tax justice
www.actionaid.org.uk