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The Intelligent Citizenship Foundation – together with the international organization Oxfam – launched the second edition of the Dataigualdad study. It is a website that estimates how many mechanical ventilators, basic food baskets, field hospitals, among other indicators, could be bought with all the money that the State stops receiving for company tax benefits and for evasion of taxes on property. income from both companies and individuals.
According to the study of Smart Citizenship and Oxfam, the richest people in Chile actually only pay 6% of their income in taxes, having to pay 35%. The initiative reflects that with all the money that people evaded in income taxes, they could have bought more than 69 thousand mechanical fans, more than 27 million basic food baskets and installed 33 field hospitals.
Pablo Rivero, Oxfam’s regional manager for Inequality, Policy and Narratives, noted: “Before the pandemic, Latin America and the Caribbean were already showing worrying economic signs and growing social unrest. Recovery from the crisis must be fair and avoid past mistakes, governments must distribute the burden of the crisis on those who have the most and increase social protection programs in favor of those most affected. Dataigualdad.com contributes with evidence and messages for social mobilization in this direction ”.
The study also shows that with all the money evaded by the companies, more than 100 million basic food baskets could have been delivered; installed 130 field hospitals; hired 180 thousand doctors in one year; or bought 275 thousand mechanical fans. In addition, with all the money that the State stops receiving for tax benefits from companies, more than 30 thousand mechanical fans could have been bought and more than 17 thousand homes built.
Auska Ovando, general coordinator of Smart Citizenship explained that “the health and social crisis has made it even more urgent to rethink the development model and how the economy works in Latin America. dataigualdad.com allows us to see in a simple way how the unjust tax systems of our region are depriving millions of people of their rights who today need a more strengthened State than ever ”.
The Dataigualdad.com initiative also provides indicators on unpaid work in times of pandemic and the differences between men and women. For example, women in Chile dedicate 18 hours a week to housework, while men only 8. In supporting homework, women dedicate 5 hours a week and men 2.
The project was created based on an in-depth analysis of the latest data available from the OECD, the World Bank and ECLAC, among other sources of information. The full study is available at https://dataigualdad.com.
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