At a time when financial resources are most urgently needed for peoples’ survival, corporations are also lining up for State support and bailouts. Several States have already moved to cut corporate income tax rates, extended periods of Income Tax Holidays, deferred tax payments, and lifted export duties, among others. Should we bail-out big businesses, especially large-scale mining corporations?

Speakers

Lidy Nacpil – Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development/Tax and Fiscal Justice Asia
Ah Maftuchan – Perkumpulan Prakarsa/Tax and Fiscal Justice Asia
Mae Buenventura – Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development
Maryati Abdullah – Publish What You Pay Indonesia
Zeena Manglinong – Freedom from Debt Coalition (Philippines)
Rahul Basu – Goa Foundation/Mineral Inheritors Rights Association (India)
Sukhgerel Sugersuren – Oyu Tolgoi Watch (Mongolia)
Dereje Alemayehu – Global Alliance for Tax Justice

Should We Bail Out Mining Corporations?
Date: 12 August 2020 
Time: 2 – 4 PM (Philippines time) 
Registrations: tinyurl.com/shouldwebailoutmining