{"id":525,"date":"2012-10-01T10:11:28","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T10:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-meets-christian-aid-on-tax-injustice\/"},"modified":"2012-10-01T10:11:28","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T10:11:28","slug":"crowe-meets-christian-aid-on-tax-injustice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-meets-christian-aid-on-tax-injustice\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowe meets Christian Aid on tax injustice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"title\">\n<h1>Crowe meets Christian Aid on tax injustice<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sinn F\u00e9in spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Trade and Diaspora, Se\u00e1n  Crowe TD, today met Christian Aid on their bus tour for greater tax  justice in the developing world. Christian Aid had a double decker bus  on Merrion Street, which was supplied with vast amounts of information  on tax dodging by big Multi-National Companies (MNCs) in the developing  world, and how much revenue was being denied to developing countries.<\/p>\n<p>After meeting Christian Aid officials Deputy Crowe said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI  want to thank Christian Aid for welcoming me aboard their bus this  morning, and for providing me with further information of tax injustice  in the developing world. I wish them all the best on the rest of their  journey around the country bringing attention to this very important  issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChristian Aid estimates that the developing world is  missing out on \u20ac160 billion a year as a result of ineffective tax  systems and tax dodging by big MNCs. This is far in access of the annual  global aid budget and is quite frankly criminal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile aid plays  an important role in ensuring that the world\u2019s poorest people are  protected from major threats to their well-being, it is a contradiction  to support increased development assistance if you turn a blind to tax  dodging by MNCs and others, as it massively reduces the revenue  collected by governments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeveloping effective tax systems in  developing countries has many benefits. Firstly, it provides much needed  revenue which can be spent on public services, like schools, healthcare  and infrastructure. Secondly, it reduces state dependency on overseas  and allows governments to take ownership of their own development  agenda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLastly, it promotes good governance, active citizenship  and mutual accountability between States and their citizens. This is  very important in developing countries which were former colonies and  who sometimes suffer a lack of legitimacy among their citizens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI  commend Christian Aid for highlighting the issue of tax justice for  developing countries, and I call on the government to ensure that Irish  Aid work extensively on creating effective tax systems in the countries  they work in, especially their nine partner countries. The government  should also use its EU Presidency in 2013 to bring this issue to the  forefront of international development talks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crowe meets Christian Aid on tax injustice Sinn F\u00e9in spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Trade and Diaspora, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, today met Christian Aid on their bus tour for greater tax justice in the developing world. Christian Aid had a double decker bus on Merrion Street, which was supplied with vast amounts of information on tax [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}