スペインの国際援助民間団体のOXFAMは、スペイン政府に、金融取引税の導入を要求
Oxfam urge a Rajoy a aplicar la tasa a las transacciones financieras
La ONG propone que este tributo sea utilizado en la lucha contra la pobreza
Alejandro Bolaños Madrid 24 ABR 2013 - 16:05 CET
Oxfam urges Rajoy to implement the financial transaction tax
The NGO proposed that this tax be used in the fight against poverty
Alejandro Bolaños Madrid 24 ABR 2013 - 16:05 CET
The government on Friday unveiled the broad outlines of the budget of 2014. No new tax increases, whether to make it to the Chairman of the Executive, Mariano Rajoy, who did not just close the door at all, in view of the deteriorating economic outlook. "We feel good that not raise taxes to ciudadadanos, especially if they are regressive, but we would like to be included and the financial transaction tax," said José María Vera Wednesday, the CEO of Oxfam Intermon
The NGO has presented at a press conference a series of proposals to use this new tax money collected on the fight against poverty, in Spain and in developing countries. "The needs are already on the table," he said Vera after referring to the increase in poverty in Spain as a result of the economic crisis and the "brutal cuts" in the budget for International Cooperation, which dropped "by 70% in three years. " "The rate is applicable and should be included in the Budget of 2014," he said Intermon CEO of Oxfam, who recalled that France and Italy, two of the 11 EU countries (Spain among them) who have taken the tribute, taxed and financial products similar formulas.
Poses that anticipates 2014 assumed rate for 11 EU countries
The European Commission this February gave free rein to the 11 EU countries through enhanced cooperation system, incorporating a tax on financial transactions without the support of other member countries. And proposed to apply a rate of 0.1% to the sale of bonds and stocks (only in secondary markets, excluding the initial issue), and 0.01% to financial derivative transactions. It is expected to complete the process (must have unanimous approval of the 11 States and preliminary debate in the European Parliament) in late 2014, so that the common rate would take effect in 2015, although states have the option always open to anticipate with national regulation, as have France and Italy.
Oxfam Intermon doubt that will be the case in Spain. "We fear that the government will not apply it soon, it will not completely nor does what should go," said Vera. NGOs demanded to limit the growth rate exhorbitado financial sector, a claim that took power after the sector's role in the economic crisis and the use of public funds to bail out banks, originally intended to allocate the recourses of this fee Robin Hood to fight hunger and climate change in the poorest countries. But the outbreak of the crisis in advanced economies has tempered the target.
It proposes to spend part of the proceeds to a basic income in Spain
Now, Oxfam Intermon proposal is to allocate half of what you can raise (Brussels estimates that Spain joined about 5,000 million with the full application of the formula) to fight against poverty in Spain, and the other half to strengthen policies International Cooperation. In Spain, the NGO considers using most of the funds (1.800 million) in expanding insertion basic income to cover more than 400,000 households without access to minimum income that manage autonomous communities. In addition, other policies would be funded abandoned these years of cuts, such as school meals, support for books and school supplies or immigrants integration fund.
The remaining $ 2,500, Intermon Oxfam raises should be used to resuscitate International Cooperation, one of the hardest hit by political budget cuts. The NGO raises special attention to humanitarian programs of hunger or bilateral cooperation with developing countries in Africa and Latin America.
The NGO also wants Cooperation offset cuts
The CEO of Intermon Oxfam said that the proposals have been well regarded in the ministries that would manage funds (Social, Foreign), but admitted that in the Treasury, "the receptivity is low." The process within the EU, moreover, is far from over. According to a document which was obtained this week the British think tank Open Europe, the 11 countries that have made the tax have serious doubts about some aspects of the proposal from the European Commission. Especially in regard to its application in the buying and selling short-term bonds in the repo market (which is achieved in a very short funding through the purchase of government bonds, which serve as collateral), to the point of warning the possibility that the "extinction" of this market, "very useful" for U.S. treasury operations and banking.
In addition, United Kingdom carried on his threat last week to report to the Court of Justice of the EU's implementation of this rate. David Cameron's government, which radically opposes taxing an activity that is in the City of London its European epicenter, rejected the initiative of the 11 countries that include the UK financial institutions levy. According to the proposal from the European Commission, so that the rate applies to the purchase or sale of a financial product, just that one of the parties is resident in one of the 11 countries the fee, or that the transaction is made on an instrument issued in one of those 11 countries.
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