February 28, 2019
Item 3: Interactive Dialogue with the Independent Expert on Foreign Debt
February 28, 2019
The Permanent Mission of the Holy See welcomes that the report acknowledges the role played by fiscal policy in achieving equality, tackling discrimination, and strengthening governance and accountability. Fiscal and monetary policies, indeed, represent powerful means for redistributing wealth and funding development. In this spirit, tackling tax evasion and avoidance, ensuring a progressive tax system, reprioritizing tax expenditures according to situations of social vulnerability, should be top priorities on the Governments’ political agenda.
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