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lpv:speaker	lp:Molly Scott Cato2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, in winding up this debate I would like to note that it has demonstrated very well the amount of common ground there is across the House. There has been really good cooperation on all the files we have been considering and I found great support from my shadows on my file. There has also, I have noted, been quite a lot of movement amongst Members of this House on the issue of tax, partly as a result of citizen outrage at multinational tax avoidance, but also as they have learned more – as they have gathered more information as a result of the TAXE Committee – and in my mind that is one of the main achievements of the TAXE Committee. To do our job properly we need information and we need evidence. How else can we make good policy? I welcome the statement from the Commissioner that more documents have been made available, but I am afraid that having documents in a reading room where they are effectively behind lock and key is simply not good enough. It does not feel like transparency and we need to have better access to information than that. We also need to protect whistleblowers who are acting in the common good. We do not always see eye to eye across the different political groups in this Parliament, but we have cooperated to protect public tax revenue and to ensure that there is a level playing field between the corporations who can arrange to reduce their tax contributions and the SMEs that are the backbone of our European economy. This issue of tax is of great concern to citizens, and I join with my colleague, Mr Ferber – who I know has now had to leave for the TAXE Committee – in calling for Member States to work with us on this. We appreciate the support from the Commission, but we also need Member States to work with us on ensuring that ending tax avoidance is treated as an urgent priority, because it is an urgent priority for all our citizens."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Special Committee on Tax Rulings and Other Measures Similar in Nature or Effect (2015-02-12--2015-11-30)3 member; ECON (2014-07-01--2017-01-18)3 substitute; AGRI (2014-07-01--2017-01-18)3
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