Ministers should do more to ensure that recipients of British aid money do more to collect their own taxes properly, MPs said last night.
The Commons International Development Committee said that if poorer nations collected their own taxes effectively, they would not have to rely on British taxpayers quite so much.
They said a reliable flow of tax revenues offered countries a far better route out of poverty than reliance on foreign aid donations.
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The Commons International Development Committee said that if poorer nations collected their own taxes effectively, they would not have to rely on British taxpayers quite so much.
They said a reliable flow of tax revenues offered countries a far better route out of poverty than reliance on foreign aid donations.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2192319/Poor-countries-rely-tax-UK-aid-say-ministers.html#ixzz24LNtD4Zr
