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SECTION 1 2 3<br />
TIME TO ACT<br />
• Only grant tax breaks where there has been an impact assessment of<br />
added-value to the country and a binding process to disclose and make<br />
public all tax incentives;<br />
• Promote the establishment of a global governance body for tax matters<br />
to ensure tax systems and the international tax architecture works in the<br />
public interests of all countries, to ensure effective cooperation and close<br />
tax loopholes.<br />
Corporations should agree to:<br />
• Stop using tax havens;<br />
• Support national, regional and global efforts to promote tax transparency at<br />
all levels, including publishing where they make profits and where they pay<br />
taxes (mandatory country-by-country reporting that is publicly available).<br />
6) ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL FREE PUBLIC SERVICES<br />
FOR ALL BY 2020<br />
The high cost of healthcare and medicines drives a hundred million people<br />
into poverty every year. When user fees are charged for schooling, some<br />
children can access high-quality private education, but the majority make do<br />
with poor-quality state education, creating a two-tiered system. Privatization<br />
further entrenches the disparities between the poorest and the richest,<br />
and undermines the ability of the state to provide for all.<br />
Governments and international institutions should agree to:<br />
• Guarantee free high-quality healthcare and education for all citizens,<br />
removing all user fees;<br />
• Implement national plans to fund healthcare and education, by spending<br />
at least 15 percent of government budgets on healthcare and 20 percent<br />
on education. Donor governments must mirror these allocations in bilateral<br />
aid, and international institutions should promote equivalent social<br />
spending floors;<br />
• Implement systems of financial-risk pooling to fund healthcare via tax and<br />
avoid health insurance schemes that are based on voluntary contributions;<br />
• Stop new and review existing public incentives and subsidies for healthcare<br />
and education provision by private for-profit companies;<br />
• Implement strict regulation for private sector healthcare and education<br />
facilities to ensure safety and quality, and to prevent them from stopping<br />
those who cannot pay from using the service;<br />
• Exclude healthcare, medicines, medical technologies, knowledge and<br />
education from all bilateral, regional or international trade and investment<br />
agreements, including those which lock national governments into private<br />
healthcare and education provision;<br />
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