2 Amendments of Miguel VIEGAS related to 2016/2269(INI)
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
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3. Underlines that modern societies are facing crucial social challenges that involve inequality issues; stresses that dealing with these challenges is both a responsibility for public policy-making and an opportunity for private investorsservices and policy - making.
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
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3 a. Notes the crucial role of tax policies and their redistributive function in correcting inequalities of income and wealth;Highlights in this regard that tax evasion and elision and tax dumping are not just detrimental to public finances and policies but also have a highly assymetrical impact between higher and lower levels of income;Tax evasion and dumping favour a race to bottom on corporate taxes which harms public services and shifts the tax burden toward labour income.