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"en.20120202.31.4-359-000"2
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"The report’s initial considerations are positive: for example, that the role of tax systems is to fund public services like education, health care, infrastructure and public transport, to reduce social inequalities and to ensure a fairer distribution of wealth; or that taxation is still a matter of national sovereignty and that the structures of the Member States’ tax systems should be respected. We also consider some of the considerations on small and medium-sized enterprises positive. However, the report’s few positive aspects are not enough to change an overall vision that is very negative and even profoundly contradictory with the initial considerations.
In this regard, the report argues that there is a need to harmonise EU tax policies and increase Commission controls on budgetary procedures, it advocates fiscal federalism and promotes the European Semester. In other words, it backs the subversion of the role of the tax system enshrined in some national constitutions, as happens in Portugal, putting it at the service of the reproduction of inequalities and of the accumulation and concentration of capital by big business and the financial sector, and justifying the rejection of the state in a series of areas of economic and social life. Despite the highlighted contradictions, it is pure and hard neoliberalism that predominates. Obviously, we voted against."@en1
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