| inbluevt | Date: Monday, 2013/05/20, 6:57 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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The EU says 1tn euros ($1.3tn; £0.85tn) a year are lost in member states via tax evasion, seven times the EU budget.
There is anger over revelations about Greek and French politicians holding secret Swiss bank accounts. MEPs are expected to call for a Europe-wide blacklist of tax havens, and pressure is likely to be put on Switzerland to relax banking secrecy.
The debate comes a day after UK Prime Minister David Cameron urged British overseas territories which operate low-tax regimes to "get their house in order" and sign up to international treaties on tax. The UK is also expected to push for tighter tax measures at the G8 summit in June
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