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"en.20160412.47.2-925-000"2
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"Mr President, this debate highlights the crossroads at which the British people find themselves: in any society there is a balance to be struck on tax and transparency. On the one hand, we could publish every detail of every person’s earnings and every tax return. We could say: if you have done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide. It would be transparent, but it would provide no privacy. After all, you could allow phone tapping, you could allow looking into anyone’s internet history or you could even ban curtains, if you followed that logic. On the other hand, we could do the complete opposite. We could respect everybody’s privacy, publish absolutely nothing and allow things not to be exposed when they should be. That would make it difficult to deal with tax evasion and aggressive tax avoidance. It would make it harder to ensure that multinationals do not have a competitive advantage over SMEs. But here is the point.
If on 23 June the United Kingdom votes to leave the European Union, we will have the sovereign right to take those decisions for ourselves and be able to get the balance right between justice and privacy. However, if the UK votes to stay in, those decisions will continue to be taken remotely in Brussels and Strasbourg. So there is a fundamental choice here: who governs Britain? Is it this place, or is it Westminster?"@en1
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