Taxing better to invest in public services for more caring and feminist societies - Read Magdalena Sepúlveda's op-ed in the media
Magdalena Sepúlveda’s latest open editorial is attracting worldwide media attention. In this opinion piece, our Executive Director recalls the horrendous impact of the pandemic on women and girls, and the critical need to invest in public services to ensure gender equality.
Women and girls have been more impacted by the pandemic, should it be in terms of job losses, house chores and care work falling mainly on their shoulders, social exclusion, isolation, resulting in gaps in pay, social protection and pensions. School closures have also affected girls in a larger proportion, in relation to their access to school, nutrition, health and safety. This pandemic, she explains, must mark a turning point in the way in which societies invest and value public services. It is also a unique opportunity to ensure progressive taxation of the richest individuals as well as to put at end to corporate-tax dodging and end corporate-tax competition.
All over the world, populations have been forced to become aware of the vital importance of public services, such as universal healthcare, childcare, adult social care, education and water and sanitation. Those who have been providing vital work during the pandemic are predominantly women but the working conditions of most of them are deplorable.
We have a solution at hand, through the introduction of a minimum effective corporate-tax rate of 25 per cent worldwide. Any multinational that books its profits in a tax haven would therefore be taxed in its home country up to this minimum rate. This would reduce its interest in transferring its profits to these unscrupulous jurisdictions.
Read the full op-ed here:
Available in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian.
23 March 2021 - Le Temps (Suisse) - Taxer les plus riches pour des sociétés plus solidaires et féministes
19 March 2021 - Expansão (Angola) - Tributar os ricos para uma sociedade mais solidaria - e feminista
16 March 2021 - Ojo Público (Peru) - Una sociedad solidaria y feminista necesita una reforma fiscal justa
15 March - The Standard (Kenya) - Why wealth people, firms should pay more taxes
14 March 2021 - Página 12 (Argentina) - El coronavirus castiga mucho más a las mujeres
11 March 2021 - Le Soir (Belgique) - Carte blanche: Taxer les plus riches pour des sociétés plus solidaires – et féministes
11 march 2021 - The Phnom Penh Post (Cambodia) - Do you want a more caring - and feminist - society? Tax better!
11 march 2021 - Namibia Economist (Namibia) - Do you want a more caring - and feminist - society? Tax better!
10 March 2021 - In Genere (Italy) - Tasse più alte per i maschi più ricchi
10 March 2021 - L’Economiste maghrébin (Tunisia) - Taxer les plus riches pour des sociétés plus solidaires et féministes
10 March 2021 - Animal Político (Mexico) - Para una sociedad solidaria y feminista, que paguen los más ricos
10 March 2021 - Las 2 Orillas (Colombia) - Para una sociedad solidaria y feminista, que paguen los más ricos
09 March 2021 - Acento (Dominican Republic) - Para una sociedad solidaria y feminista, que paguen los más ricos
09 March 2021 - L’Economiste (Maroc) - Taxer les plus riches pour des sociétés plus solidaires - et féministes
08 March 2021 - Business Live (South Africa) - How to create a more caring — and feminist — society - The pandemic must mark a turning point in the taxation of the richest individuals
08 March 2021 - Poder 360 (Brasil) - Tributar os ricos para uma sociedade mais solidária -e feminista
08 March 2021 - Common Dreams (USA) - Do You Want a More Caring—and Feminist Society? Tax Better!
08 March 2021 - Social Europe (EU) - Taxing better to create more caring- and feminist - societies
08 March 2021 - O Jornal Económico (Portugal) - A recuperação económica não pode deixar as mulheres para trás
07 March 2021 - EL País (Spain) - Impuestos a los ricos para una sociedad más solidaria y feminista
04 March 2021 - Mediapart (France) - Taxer les plus riches pour des sociétés plus solidaires - et féministes
Interview
Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona also gave an interview on the same for the Mexican media outlet El Economista - Gravar a multinacionales y súper ricos, necesario para la recuperación económica - Interview of Magdalena Sepúlveda suggesting a global minimum tax rate to fight multinationals’ tax avoidance, which would help cope with the economic and social crisis resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.