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Wed, 04/06/2011 - 14:48
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Britain asks Pakistan raise more tax from the rich
Islamabad, April 05, 2011 (PPI): Visiting Prime Minister of Britain David Cameron Tuesday told elite of Pakistan they have to start paying more tax, and cut out government waste and weakness, if British public are to back his plans announced today to pour £650 million in UK aid to Pakistani schools.
In a speech at Comsats, Cameron said British people would need convincing that every penny of aid designed to help recruit 9,000 extra teachers and put 4 million children into education was going to the right places.
"My job is made more difficult when people in Britain look at Pakistan, a country that receives millions of pounds of our aid money, and see weaknesses in terms of government capacity and waste." Pakistan is now to become single largest recipient of UK aid.
He said Pakistan "currently spends only 1.5% of its GDP on education and what's more, you have one of lowest tax-to-GDP ratios in the world." There was need to raise resources necessary to pay for things that a modern state and people require.
"Too few people pay tax. Too many of your richest people are getting away without paying much tax at all - and that's not fair." He said this tax avoidance was neither fair "on ordinary Pakistanis, who suffer at sharpest end of weak governance or on British taxpayers, who are contributing to future of their country."
Cameron said 17 million children of school age not in education represented an “emergency. It cost more per year than a flood such as one that hit the country last year.” £650m additional aid for education over four years should put 4 million extra children into school.
In a speech at Comsats, Cameron said British people would need convincing that every penny of aid designed to help recruit 9,000 extra teachers and put 4 million children into education was going to the right places.
"My job is made more difficult when people in Britain look at Pakistan, a country that receives millions of pounds of our aid money, and see weaknesses in terms of government capacity and waste." Pakistan is now to become single largest recipient of UK aid.
He said Pakistan "currently spends only 1.5% of its GDP on education and what's more, you have one of lowest tax-to-GDP ratios in the world." There was need to raise resources necessary to pay for things that a modern state and people require.
"Too few people pay tax. Too many of your richest people are getting away without paying much tax at all - and that's not fair." He said this tax avoidance was neither fair "on ordinary Pakistanis, who suffer at sharpest end of weak governance or on British taxpayers, who are contributing to future of their country."
Cameron said 17 million children of school age not in education represented an “emergency. It cost more per year than a flood such as one that hit the country last year.” £650m additional aid for education over four years should put 4 million extra children into school.
