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We voted against this final resolution, since the majority in the European Parliament overlooks the true causes of the principal fiscal fraud – the existence of tax havens – although there are some positive proposals that we voted in favour.
Although the Parliamentary Committee’s report does contain some positive proposals, notably explicit references to tax havens and their greater responsibility for fiscal fraud and the erosion of the fiscal base, which decreases public revenue and reduces the State’s capacity to put social support policies into practice, several of these positions were rejected or watered down in the plenary vote.
The political majority in the European Parliament does not genuinely wish to close down the tax havens that shelter large fortunes and huge stock market profits from various more or less unauthorised deals. They wish to fuel one of the centres of the scandalous profits of capitalism, even if it means lower revenue for states and fewer possibilities for a response from public policies serving workers and the people."@en1
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