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.
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Opinion
Aprobados on 19/10/2016
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ECO/408-EESC-2016-04274-00-01-ac-traReferral:
COM(2016) 450 final 2016/0208 CODRapporteur:
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Opinion
Aprobados on 19/10/2016
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ECO/399-EESC-2016-00760-00-00-ac-traRapporteur:
Petr ZAHRADNÍK (Czech Republic)
Opinion
Aprobados on 21/09/2016
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ECO/407-EESC-2016-02391-00-00-ac-traReferral:
COM(2016) 198 final 2016/0107 CODRapporteur:
Victor ALISTAR (Romania)
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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.
Opinion
Aprobados on 13/07/2016
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ECO/406-EESC-2016-02343-00-01-ac-traReferral:
COM(2016) 148 final Rapporteur:
Daniel MAREELS (Belgium)
Co-rapporteur:
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.
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VAT Action Plan - Measures to modernise VAT in the EU - Bertrand LAPALUS - DG TAXUD
Opinion
Aprobados on 27/04/2016
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ECO/405-EESC-2016-01284-00-00-AC-TRAReferral:
COM(2016) 25 final 2016/0010 CNSCOM(2016) 25 final 2016/0010 CNSCOM(2016) 26 final 2016/0011 CNSRapporteur:
Co-rapporteur:
Roger BARKER (United Kingdom)
The EESC has in numerous opinions urged for a fair, efficient and growth-friendly corporate tax system, based on the principle that companies should pay taxes in the country where profits are generated. Thus, the Committee welcomes the Commission’s initiatives intended to combat aggressive tax planning and broadly supports the proposed measures as regards the essential elements of the two legislative proposals, the Anti-Tax-Avoidance-Directive as well as the Directive on Administrative Cooperation. It advocates for a more precise scope and framework in certain specific areas (such as e.g. the switch-over clause). The Committee urges to finish drawing up the list of countries or regions which refuse to apply good governance standards and considers that the envisaged legislative measures should not apply to SMEs.
Opinion
Aprobados on 16/03/2016
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ECO/397-EESC-2015-06712-00-01-ac-traReferral:
COM(2015) 692 final Rapporteur:
Michael IKRATH (Austria)
Co-rapporteur:
Anne DEMELENNE (Belgium)
The EESC welcomes the establishment of economic priority programmes for the euro area at the start of the European Semester. To achieve a recovery of growth and employment a mix of financial, taxation, budgetary, economic and social policies is needed. In contrast to the recommendation of the Commission, the focus of fiscal policy should be designed to be more expansionist than neutral. The EESC advocates the reduction of taxation on labour insofar as it does not threaten the financial sustainability of social protection systems. The EESC calls for a coordinated effort to create a more business-friendly environment for SMEs through better regulation, adequate financing and facilitation of exports to markets outside the EU. There is a particular need to open up new funding opportunities for micro-enterprises and start-ups.
Opinion
Aprobados on 16/03/2016
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ECO/398-EESC-2016-00122-00-00-ac-traRapporteur:
Opinion
Aprobados on 16/03/2016
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ECO/395-EESC-2015-06711-00-00-ac-traReferral:
COM(2015) 601 final Rapporteur:
Thomas DELAPINA (Austria)
Co-rapporteur:
David CROUGHAN (Ireland)
Competitiveness is not an end in itself. It is only a sensible objective if it improves people's well-being in practice. The EESC therefore recommends that an updated definition of competitiveness ("competitiveness 2.0") be used in future, taking into account "the ability of a country to deliver the beyond-GDP goals for its citizens". The EESC urges that future discussions refer not to "competitiveness boards" but to "boards for competitiveness, social cohesion and sustainability". The EESC asks the Commission to present concrete proposals on how the following necessary requirements with regards to these boards can be safeguarded: accountability, legitimacy and transparency; representation of balanced unbiased expertise; non-binding character of proposals of the boards; inclusion of the dual role of wages, both as a cost factor and as the main determinant of domestic demand.
Opinion
Aprobados on 16/03/2016
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ECO/394-EESC-2015-06709-00-00-ac-traRapporteur:
Carmelo CEDRONE (Italy)
The Commission communication on Steps towards completing EMU can provide a great opportunity to launch a debate at political level and with civil society to draw up conclusive proposals which go further than the current ones. It would be more useful to draw up a proposal for the European Semester as part of a comprehensive agreement on economic governance that goes beyond the status quo, changing macroconditionality and strengthening the Interparliamentary Conference. Democratic legitimacy is not tackled seriously by any of the Commission's operational proposals. The tripartite social dialogue could contribute to this matter. On the basis of its own roadmap, the EESC is committed to putting forward, possibly with the Commission, a plan on stage two (Completing EMU 2017-2025) to discuss these issues in the Member States, beginning with the euro area countries.
Opinion
Aprobados on 09/12/2015
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ECO/383-EESC-2015-02961-00-01-ac-traReferral:
COM(2015) 302 finalRapporteur:
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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.
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