Hola gentes<br><br>Os parecería bien que envie la adhesión de quien debe a quien? a este manifiesto que nos envian desde Bangladesh? Es muy curioso ver cómo se están oponiendo a las mismas medidas que el FMI/UE nos imponen a nosotras, sobre todo el aumento del IVA. <br>
<br>Piden <br><ul><li>
<div class="MsoNormal">Acabar con el crédito del FMI y las condiciones fiscales dañinas</div></li><li>
<div class="MsoNormal">Justicia Fiscal<br></div></li><li>
<div class="MsoNormal">Auditoría de la Deuda<br></div></li><li>
<div class="MsoNormal">Decir NO a los créditos climáticos y sí a las reparaciones <br></div></li></ul>Besos<br><br>Iolanda<br>PD. me podeis contestar a mi y asi no se satura la lista<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>
From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Tim Jones</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tim@jubileedebtcampaign.org.uk">tim@jubileedebtcampaign.org.uk</a>></span><br>Date: 2012/9/27<br>Subject: [euroIFInet] Please sign: Statement on Bangladesh-IMF loan<br>
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<div><font face="Arial">Hi everyone,</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Equity-BD in Bangladesh are asking for
international sign-ons to a statement against a recent IMF loan and VAT and
trade liberalisation conditions, for tax justice, for a debt audit and against
climate loans. Equity-BD's message is below, and beneath that is the
statement.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">You can see the statement and sign-up your
organisation at:</font></div>
<div><a href="http://www.equitybd.org/English/campaign/index2.html" target="_blank"><font face="Arial">http://www.equitybd.org/English/campaign/index2.html</font></a></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Best wishes,</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Tim</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">(Apologies for cross-posting)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________<br><br></font>Dear
Friends <br><br>The IMF has approved a loan of $987 million to Bangladesh and
has already released the first trench. Recently the IMF had a mission in
Dhaka to review issues compliance on the eve of releasing the second
trench. <br><br>The loan has attached different stringent conditions which
include, import liberalization, automation of fuel price in withdrawing subsidy,
privatization of state enterprises and introduction of new VAT law.
Bangladeshi progressive civil society continuously protesting this. Bangladesh
is also one of the countries which will be impacted worse in respect of climate
changes.</font></div>
<p class="MsoNormal">EquityBD, supported by Jubilee Debt Campaign UK, have
initiated a mobilization. We are requesting organisations to support us by
signing a statement, with the demands to:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• End the IMF loan and damaging tax conditions </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Bring in tax justice</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Audit the debt</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Say no to climate loans, yes to reparations</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You will find this in <a>www.equitybd.org</a>, but for direct please kindly follow the link
and sign as organization:<br><a>http://www.equitybd.org/English/campaign/index2.html</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I hope you sign the campaign and thereby expressing
solidarity, building solidarity in world wide against the anti people role of
IMF.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Once the signatures are collected, we hope you will share the
statement with your governments and representatives at the IMF.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Reza, Equity-BD</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">__________________________________________________________________________________________________________</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>No to IMF loan, Yes to Tax Justice</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In April the International Monetary Fund agreed a loan of
US$987 million to be disbursed to the Bangladesh government over the next three
years. This loan will primarily be used to help cope with the balance of
payments crisis which is partly caused by high foreign debt payments. Bangladesh
is already burdened with a large external foreign debt, (about 20% of GDP). The
government has to repay over US$2 billion every year, the equivalent of over 15
per cent of total government revenue.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As a condition of the loan, the IMF say Bangladesh must
liberalise trade by reducing taxes on imports and bring in a new Value Added Tax
(VAT). Following the condition, the government has reduced the import tax on
many items in the current national budget for the 2012-13 fiscal year and
introduced a new rate of VAT, two percentage points higher than before for many
wholesale and retail level businesses. These measures will worsen livelihoods
for poor people and increase inequality.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The increase in VAT will harm small entrepreneurs, the
life-line of the Bangladesh economy. Increases in VAT are being proposed for
essential items such as rice, lentils and cooking oil. This will only increase
malnutrition and inequality. One-quarter of Bangladeshi’s are undernourished,and
for every 1 taka earned by the poorest 10 per cent, the richest 10 per cent get
7 takas. The removal of import tariffs could prevent the development of domestic
businesses, increase imports, worsening Bangladesh’s balance of payments, and
reduce government revenue which will again create a dependency to take out news
loans from the IMF.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Rather than follow these IMF conditions, the Bangladesh
government should be using the tax system to tackle poverty and inequality,
by:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<div class="MsoNormal">Expanding direct taxes, such as a progressive income tax.
Progressive income taxes are used in many developed countries to collect high
proportions of revenue. IMF advice to Bangladesh to collect revenue through
expanding VAT is very regressive for poor people as they have to spend a large
amount of income on essential good and services.</div></li>
<li>
<div class="MsoNormal">Reducing corruption, thereby making more revenue
available. The people of Bangladesh are losing approximately US$3 billion
every year (4-5% of GDP) that should be used for domestic resource
mobilization.</div></li>
<li>
<div class="MsoNormal">Focussing VAT on luxury goods rather than basic
necessities</div></li>
<li>
<div class="MsoNormal">Increasing taxation on corporate profits, and regulate
the removal of money from the country by multinational companies and rich
individuals<br></div></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Bangladeshi people have suffered from paying a high
foreign debt for over thirty years. This will be increased if the government
takes out new loans for mega-projects like Padma Bridge (US$2.9 billion), city
fly-over (US$1 billion) and Dhaka-Chittagong highway expansion (US$1.6 billion).
Since 1990, foreign debt payments each year have averaged over 10 per cent of
government revenue and this is increasing. The current fiscal year 2012-13, the
government has allocated US$2.91 billion which is 19% of total revenue and 12.5%
of the total national budget. Over 98 per cent of foreign ‘aid’ to the
Bangladesh government is loans rather than grants.Rather than continuing its
dependence on foreign loans, which have not demonstrably helped the majority of
people, Bangladesh should hold an audit into debts to publicly find out:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<div class="MsoNormal">Who benefited from loans</div></li>
<li>
<div class="MsoNormal">Whether any loans were contracted unjustly or
illegally</div></li>
<li>
<div class="MsoNormal">What the impact of continual high debt payments has
been</div></li>
<li>
<div class="MsoNormal">Whether and how foreign loans can be used in the
future<br></div></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Bangladesh government is set to receive $575 million of
loans from the World Bank, Asian Development Bank and UK government for projects
to adapt to the impacts of climate change. This is unjust. These loans will make
the people of Bangladesh pay twice for a problem they had not part in creating.
The people of Bangladesh are owed reparations for the climate crisis caused by
others, not loans which will only serve to increase the claimed financial debt.
It is the people of Bangladesh who are creditors, and owed a debt by the rich
world.</p>
<ul>
<li>
<div class="MsoNormal">End the IMF loan and damaging tax conditions</div></li>
<li>
<div class="MsoNormal">Bring in tax justice</div></li>
<li>
<div class="MsoNormal">Audit the debt</div></li>
<li>
<div class="MsoNormal">Say no to climate loans, yes to
reparations<br></div></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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<div><font face="Arial">------------------------------------------<br>Tim
Jones<br>Senior Policy and Campaigns Officer<br>Jubilee Debt Campaign<br>The
Grayston Centre<br>28 Charles Square<br>London<br>N1 6HT<br>United
Kingdom</font></div>
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