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Why tax matters
It is often assumed that tax is a bad thing: that governments want to deprive citizens of their hard-earned money. But from an economic justice and human rights perspective, taxes are crucial for four reasons, which can be summarised as the four ‘Rs’:
Revenue: funding to deliver the services citizens need
Redistribution: to address poverty and inequality
Representation: building accountability of governments to citizens and reclaiming policy space
Repricing: limiting public ‘bads’; encouraging public ‘goods’.
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