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Article

4 May 2007

Author:
War on Want

Someone has to Pay

Tax is a key weapon in the fight against poverty. Taxes paid by companies and individuals enable governments to fund vital public services such as health care, education, clean water and electricity, and to finance anti-poverty programmes throughout the world. So when multinational corporations fail to pay the tax they owe, it’s the poor who pick up the bill...Yet companies now see tax dodging as a legitimate part of their business operations...£250 billion every year as a direct result of corporate tax dodging...