How Irish, Swiss and Dutch Tax Policy Harms Children Abroad | View | Euronews
Despite the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children worldwide, the overall well-being of children - especially girls - has improved dramatically in the last 32 years.
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If citizens of Ireland, Switzerland, the Netherlands and similar states could see the true costs of their tax and financial transparency policies on the human rights of children abroad, they would demand reforms
Even a small percentage increase in tax revenue can have an enormous effect on children’s rights, as incremental improvements - such as one additional year of schooling for girls - have enormous positive ripple effects.
In other words, states with weak tax and financial transparency laws externalize the costs of their decisions on to “other people’s children” - often children an ocean away whom citizens in these states can neither see nor hear.
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