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Spanish researchers petition for taxpayer donations

Posted on behalf of Lucas Laursen Spanish scientists have collected more than 32,000 signatures in less than a week in support of a petition that urges Spain’s tax authority to adopt a novel way of raising funds for research: adding a checkbox to income tax forms that would allow taxpayers to direct 0.7% of their contribution to science. The petition, launched on 3 January, responds to the announcement at the end of December that Spain’s research budget would lose €600 million. In an editorial last month, Nature called for Spain, Italy, and Greece to reinforce their science budgets. Yet Spain’s 

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