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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission proposed on Wednesday that companies get tax incentives for raising money through share issues in the same way they do when they borrow, allowing to remove the tax bias favouring corporate debt and make firms more stable. European firms get 70-80% of their financing from bank loans and the rest from securities, making them vulnerable when banks are less forthcoming with lending or during a banking crisis. “By making new equity tax-deductible, just as debt is at present, this proposal reduces the incentive to add to (companies’) borrowing and allows …