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  • Hyväksytyt on 19/10/2016 - Bureau decision date: 12/07/2016
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    ECO/414-EESC-2016-01-01-04584-00-00-ac-tra
    Workers - GR II
    Romania

    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: Access to anti-money-laundering information by tax authorities
    Presentation "Access to Anti-money laundering informations"
  • Hyväksytyt on 19/10/2016 - Bureau decision date: 24/05/2016
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    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"
  • Hyväksytyt on 21/09/2016 - Bureau decision date: 15/03/2016
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    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)
  • Hyväksytyt on 13/07/2016 - Bureau decision date: 15/03/2016
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    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
  • Hyväksytyt on 27/04/2016 - Bureau decision date: 16/02/2016
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    ECO/405-EESC-2016-01-01-01284-00-00-AC-TRA
    Workers - GR II
    Romania
    (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.

    EESC opinion: The Anti Tax Avoidance Package
  • Hyväksytyt on 16/03/2016 - Bureau decision date: 08/12/2015
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    ECO/398-EESC-2016-00122-00-00-ac-tra
    Civil Society Organisations - GR III
    Greece
    EESC opinion: Structural Reform Support Programme for the period 2017 to 2020 and amending Regulations (EU) No 1303/2013 and (EU) No 1305/2013
  • Hyväksytyt on 16/03/2016 - Bureau decision date: 07/10/2015
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    ECO/392-EESC-2015-05877-00-00-ac-tra
    (Czech Republic

    The euro area needs to step up its external representation. This will strengthen its relative weight in international financial institutions and give it a more prominent position in international financial markets. The EESC endorses the rationale behind the two Commission documents and agrees with the main elements of the three-phase scenario to gain a single euro area chair at the IMF by 2025. At the same time, however, the EESC proposes that the Commission also draft scenarios for making stronger and more effective the links with other relevant international bodies, taking particular account of their remits. The EESC also recommends clearly and explicitly defining the roles of euro area external representation and their dovetailing with those of the EU as a whole, with a view to preserving the integrity of the single market.

  • Hyväksytyt on 16/03/2016 - Bureau decision date: 10/11/2015
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    ECO/395-EESC-2015-01-01-06711-00-00-ac-tra
    (Austria
    (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.

    EESC opinion: Establishment of National Competitiveness Boards within the Euro Area
  • Hyväksytyt on 16/03/2016 - Bureau decision date: 10/11/2015
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    ECO/394-EESC-2015-01-01-06709-00-00-ac-tra
    (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.

    EESC opinion: Steps towards Completing Economic and Monetary Union
  • Hyväksytyt on 27/05/2015
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    ECO/381-EESC-2015-01-01-01828-00-00-AC-TRA
    Plenary session number
    508
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    The EESC welcomes the Proposal for a Directive presented by the European Commission, through which the Commission is continuing to implement the measures included in the action plan to strengthen the fight against tax fraud and tax evasion. Information on advance tax rulings and advance pricing arrangements is very important and can help the Member States to trace artificial transactions. The EESC recommends that the Member States make efforts to ensure that the provisions of the proposal for a directive are transposed correctly.

    EESC opinion: Tax Transparency Package