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Related: About this forumFrom the White House: Lough Erne Declaration
The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
June 18, 2013
Lough Erne Declaration
Private enterprise drives growth, reduces poverty, and creates jobs and prosperity for people around the world. Governments have a special responsibility to make proper rules and promote good governance. Fair taxes, increased transparency and open trade are vital drivers of this. We will make a real difference by doing the following:
1. Tax authorities across the world should automatically share information to fight the scourge of tax evasion.
2. Countries should change rules that let companies shift their profits across borders to avoid taxes, and multinationals should report to tax authorities what tax they pay where.
3. Companies should know who really owns them and tax collectors and law enforcers should be able to obtain this information easily.
4. Developing countries should have the information and capacity to collect the taxes owed them and other countries have a duty to help them.
5. Extractive companies should report payments to all governments - and governments should publish income from such companies.
6. Minerals should be sourced legitimately, not plundered from conflict zones.
7. Land transactions should be transparent, respecting the property rights of local communities.
8. Governments should roll back protectionism and agree new trade deals that boost jobs and growth worldwide.
9. Governments should cut wasteful bureaucracy at borders and make it easier and quicker to move goods between developing countries.
10. Governments should publish information on laws, budgets, spending, national statistics, elections and government contracts in a way that is easy to read and re-use, so that citizens can hold them to account.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/06/18/lough-erne-declaration
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From the White House: Lough Erne Declaration (Original Post)
Tx4obama
Jun 2013
OP
Jeneral2885
(1,354 posts)1. More a British created
G8 Communique
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)2. when and if the coffee hits this am
I will be back to read this more co-herently.
66 dmhlt
(1,941 posts)6. Captures how I feel some mornings - AND made me chuckle. Thx!
delrem
(9,688 posts)3. "Minerals should be sourced legitimately, not plundered from conflict zones."
hahahahahha.... gaaack
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)4. 11. Everyone should get a pony. nt
YeahSureRight
(205 posts)5. They must have all been sitting around the table spit balling any old BS
They must have all been sitting around the table spit balling any old BS that they think the rubes will believe.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)7. This will make a real difference.
forestpath
(3,102 posts)8. "8. Governments should roll back protectionism and agree new trade deals that boost jobs and growth
worldwide." [sic]
They left out "and hand sovereignty of our country over to foreign corporations."
Jeneral2885
(1,354 posts)10. Neoliberalism
all over against
rug
(82,333 posts)9. That's a lot of shoulds.