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  • Vedtaget on 14/12/2016 - Bureau decision date: 21/01/2016
    Reference
    ECO/403-EESC-2016-01-01-00899-00-01-ac-tra
    Employers - GR I
    Spain

    The EESC encourages the Commission to pursue its efforts to develop policy proposals aimed at promoting the creation of innovative and high growth firms. These policy proposals should strengthen the single market, reinforce the clusters and ecosystems in which innovative start-ups are created, develop the equity component of the European capital markets, encourage an academic agenda focusing on jobs for the future and minimise the cost and red tape involved in starting a new entrepreneurial venture.

    EESC opinion: Promoting innovative and high growth firms (own-initiative opinion)
  • Vedtaget on 19/10/2016 - Bureau decision date: 24/05/2016
    Reference
    ECO/408-EESC-2016-01-01-04274-00-01-ac-tra
    Workers - GR II
    Spain

    The EESC believes that the fight against terrorism and its financing and efforts to combat money laundering and other related forms of economic crime should be permanent EU policy priorities. These efforts should be linked more closely with the efforts needed to combat tax fraud and tax avoidance. Therefore, the EESC considers creating public national registers of the beneficial owners of bank accounts, businesses, trusts and transactions, and access to them by obliged entities, to be a priority. Furthermore, all obligations laid down in the Anti Money Laundering Directive should be extended to all territories or jurisdictions whose sovereignty resides with the Member States. And free trade and economic partnership agreements should include a chapter on measures to tackle money laundering and terrorist financing, tax fraud and tax avoidance.

    EESC opinion: Revision of anti- money-laundering directive
    Presentation "Proposal for a Directive amending Directive 2015/849"
  • Vedtaget on 21/09/2016 - Bureau decision date: 15/03/2016
    Reference
    ECO/407-EESC-2016-01-01-02391-00-00-ac-tra
    (Romania
    Workers - GR II
    Romania

    Fighting against tax avoidance and aggressive tax planning, both at the EU and at a global level, is an important political priority for the European Union. The EESC welcomes and endorses the Commission proposal, which aims to make the taxation system more transparent as this measure will boost public confidence. The EESC suggests that the Commission should aim for a more ambitious package. It proposes the disclosure of a wider range of data, the gradual reduction of the turnover threshold of EUR 750 Million and that the disclosed data is made publicly available in one of the official languages of the EU in order to achieve the objective of giving the public genuine access to data for the whole single market.

    EESC opinion: Proposal on public tax transparency (country-by-country reporting)
  • Vedtaget on 13/07/2016 - Bureau decision date: 15/03/2016
    Reference
    ECO/406-EESC-2016-02343-00-01-ac-tra
    (Belgium
    Civil Society Organisations - GR III
    Italy

    The EESC welcomes the "Action Plan on VAT", and calls for a  definitive VAT system that is clear, consistent, robust and comprehensive, as well as proportionate and future-proof. The Committee  welcomes the strong focus on closing the VAT gap and tackling the susceptibility of VAT to fraud. There should be results delivered without delay, including by improving cooperation between tax administrations. “Bona fide” enterprises should be protected and no new excessive measures should be imposed on them. The future system of reduced rates must combine flexibility and legal certainty, be transparent, and for the sake of simplicity the number of reduced rates and exemptions must be limited.

    EESC opinion: Action Plan on VAT
    VAT Action Plan - Measures to modernise VAT in the EU - Bertrand LAPALUS - DG TAXUD
  • Vedtaget on 25/05/2016 - Bureau decision date: 08/12/2015
    Reference
    SOC/527-EESC-2016-01-01-00050-00-01-ac-tra
    (Denmark
    EESC opinion: European Accessibility Act
  • Vedtaget on 09/12/2015
    Reference
    ECO/383-EESC-2015-02961-00-01-ac-tra
    Workers - GR II
    Romania
    Employers - GR I
    Portugal
    Plenary session number
    512
    -

    The EESC expresses its support for the Commission in combating the erosion of Member States' tax bases and unfair tax competition. The Committee in this context endorses the introduction of a CCCTB and is also pleased that the Commission has published a list of non-cooperative tax jurisdictions. The EESC goes even further and proposes that EU rules should include sanctions for companies that continue to run their business through tax havens.

    EESC opinion: Action Plan on Fairer Corporate Taxation
    Slideshow DG TAXUD – A Fair and Efficient Corporate Taxation
  • Vedtaget on 16/09/2015
    Reference
    INT/755-EESC-2015-01-01-00822-00-01-AC-TRA
    Employers - GR I
    Netherlands
    Plenary session number
    510
    -
    EESC opinion: SBA experiences in the USA and EU
    Background document
  • Vedtaget on 02/07/2015
    Reference
    REX/433-EESC
    Employers - GR I
    France
    Civil Society Organisations - GR III
    Greece
    Plenary session number
    509
    -

    The own-initiative opinion will focus on the impact of the TTIP on SMEs and reflect on the provisions that would need to be included in the TTIP in order to take account of the specific character of SMEs in the negotiations and implementation of an eventual EU-US agreement. The opinion will also look at how to increase the awareness of SMEs as to existing support services and programmes, and particularly about the new business opportunities that may arise with this agreement.

    TTIP and its impact on SMEs
  • Vedtaget on 19/03/2015
    Reference
    ECO/374-EESC-2014-07287-00-03-ac-tra
    Civil Society Organisations - GR III
    United Kingdom
    Plenary session number
    506
    -

    The EESC welcomes the Investment Plan for Europe as a step in the right direction, which however faces serious questions about the Plan's size and timescale, the high degree of leverage expected and the potential flow of suitable projects. The Plan proposes that contributions to the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) from Member States will not be included in budget deficit calculations and this is to be welcomed, but it begs the question as to why ongoing strategic public infrastructure expenditures are not treated in the same way. Strategic public investment which underpins present and future economic development should be incentivised by a more benign European fiscal framework.

    EESC opinion: An Investment Plan for Europe
    Achim Truger - Implementing the Golden Rule for Public Investment in Europe
  • Vedtaget on 18/02/2015
    Reference
    ECO/371-EESC-2014-04516-00-01-AC-TRA
    Civil Society Organisations - GR III
    Spain
    Plenary session number
    505
    -

    The EESC considers it vital to preserve the "biodiversity" of the financial system, without this meaning the arbitrary application of rules. In this context the Committee applauds the consideration the European Commission has given to the introduction of calibrated financial regulation frameworks to consider the specificities of cooperative and savings banks that avoid the undesirable effects of uniform application of prudential rules and possibly an overload of administrative burdens.

    EESC opinion: Role of cooperative and savings banks in territorial cohesion