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"en.20100210.25.3-365"2
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"For you, good governance in tax matters is not about the fight against fraud, bearable taxation or good use of public funds. It is about the systematic hounding of the taxpayer, mainly the European taxpayer, and the automatic exchange of information on his bank accounts without him having committed any offence. What is more, I am not talking here about big companies or very wealthy individuals, who will always have the means to slip through the net, but about the average European.
Your speech on tax havens is hypocritical: you rail against Liechtenstein and the Caribbean, but you do not say a word about Europe’s biggest tax haven, the City, or about those in the United States. Nor do you say a word about that which enables those havens to exist: the tax hells that now characterise the majority of the European Member States, which are crippled by debt and deficits. Because public expenditure has exploded in order to bear the social consequences of your economic policies and the exorbitant costs of mass immigration. Because the Member States can no longer fund their debt unless they resort to the markets and abide by their conditions, which means that, today, 15 to 20% of the budgetary expenditure of a State such as France covers only its interest payments. We will not be used as a moral alibi for such a policy."@en1
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