According to the Lithuanian Trade Unions’ Confederation LPSK, a higher corporate tax on business and progressive taxes would be the right instruments to secure more funding for defence. According to the union leader, proposing only ways that are passed on to every citizen through consumption taxes is completely unacceptable and unfair. She said that business could contribute in solidarity with a higher corporate tax and that we could finally return in solidarity to a tax reform with real progressivity.
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