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  • Adottati on 20/09/2017 - Bureau decision date: 18/10/2016
    Referenza
    ECO/419-EESC-2016-02205-00-00-ac-tra
    Civil Society Organisations - GR III
    Ireland

    The EESC endorses the aims of the Commission proposals in the area of the CCCTB and recommends the greatest efforts be made to pursue the CCCTB by consensus. The Committee recognizes that the Commission relaunched the CCCTB proposal both with the objective to aid the single market and to combat aggressive tax planning, attributing income where the value is created.

  • Adottati on 05/07/2017 - Bureau decision date: 18/10/2016
    Referenza
    ECO/421-EESC-2016-01-01-06737-00-00-ac-tra
    (United Kingdom

    The EESC welcomes the package on the modernisation of VAT on cross-border e-commerce, and endorses both its objectives and its focus on addressing the concerns of SMEs. The Committee welcomes the proposed extension of the MOSS to goods as it creates conditions for the possible removal of the Low Value Consignment Relief (LVCR) scheme. Furthermore, the amendments to the VAT rates applicable to e-publications rules would eliminate the distinction between physical and non-physical publications, and ensure neutrality in this market.

    EESC opinion: Digital Single Market VAT (e)-package (VAT on e-commerce, e-publications, e-books)
  • Adottati on 31/05/2017 - Bureau decision date: 24/01/2017
    Referenza
    INT/815-EESC-2017-01-01-729
    (Germany
    Workers - GR II
    Italy

    The proposed measures of the services package aim to make it easier for services providers to navigate administrative formalities, helping Member States identify overly burdensome or outdated requirements on professionals operating domestically or across borders. Rather than amending existing EU rules in the services area, the Commission focuses on ensuring better application.

    EESC opinion: Services Package
    Factsheet
  • Adottati on 26/04/2017 - Bureau decision date: 13/12/2016
    Referenza
    ECO/427-EESC-2017-01-01-00342-00-01-ac-tra
    Workers - GR II
    Spain
    (Romania

    The EESC supports the Commission's proposal to expand the scope of controls and the competency of the authorities in order to conduct checks and confiscate goods, whenever there is a reasonable indication of illicit activities. The EESC recommends to improve cooperation, both between the competent authorities and between Member States and suggests that penalties should be harmonised across Member States and communicated to the Commission in a coherent way. The Committee also proposes that, in addition to gold, other "highly liquid commodities" should be included in the definition of cash from the moment the new regulation is adopted and it draws attention to the threat of further use of pre-paid cards by criminals and terrorists to covertly finance their activities.

    EESC opinion: Terrorism Financing – Controls of cash movements
  • Adottati on 22/02/2017 - Bureau decision date: 18/10/2016
    Referenza
    ECO/420-EESC-2016-01-01-06092-00-00-ac-tra
    Employers - GR I
    Sweden

    The EESC welcomes the Commission proposal for a Council Directive to improve double taxation dispute resolution mechanisms in the EU. Double taxation is one of the biggest tax obstacles to the Single Market. There is an urgent need for mechanisms ensuring that cases of double taxation are resolved more quickly and more decisively when they arise between Member States. Therefore it is urgent to implement this proposal.

    EESC opinion: Initiative on Improving double taxation dispute resolution mechanisms
    Press cut - Faster EU solution for double taxation disputes
    Comment of the rapporteur Andersson
    Financial Times - 6.4.2017
  • Adottati on 14/12/2016 - Bureau decision date: 18/10/2016
    Referenza
    ECO/422-EESC-2016-05994-00-00-ac-tra
    (Romania
    EESC opinion: Council Directive amending Directive 2016/1164/EU on rules against tax avoidance practices (ATAD) regarding hybrid mismatches
  • Adottati on 14/12/2016 - Bureau decision date: 12/07/2016
    Referenza
    ECO/413-EESC-2016-04486-00-00-ac-tra
    Civil Society Organisations - GR III
    Italy
    (Austria

    The EESC welcomes and supports the Commission's initiative to anticipate the review of the Regulations on European venture capital funds (EuVECA) and European social entrepreneurship funds (EuSEF). The EESC believes that such a regulation can promote the establishment of a capital markets union. The EESC suggests that in order to expand participation in such investment funds, the hitherto very restrictive access criteria, as well as other restrictive conditions, to be significantly relaxed; the Committee proposes to increase the involvement of non-institutional investors and considers it equally important to create an environment in which the financing objectives of social investment funds can develop.

    EESC opinion: Regulation amending the European Venture Capital Fund (EuVECA) and European Social Entrepreneurship (EuSEF) Fund regulations
  • Adottati on 19/10/2016 - Bureau decision date: 12/07/2016
    Referenza
    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"
  • Adottati on 19/10/2016 - Bureau decision date: 24/05/2016
    Referenza
    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"
  • Adottati on 21/09/2016 - Bureau decision date: 15/03/2016
    Referenza
    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)