9 Amendments of Elisa FERREIRA related to 2015/2140(INI)
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the regular dialogue which the Commission conducts with the European Parliament on competition matters, and; calls again for fundamental legislative directives and guidelines to be adopted within the co-decision procedure and; calls in particular for a strict separation between those departments whichthat draw up guidelines to be strictly separated from those whichand those that have the responsibility to apply those guidelines in specific cases;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Notes that, in the digital economy, in the past assessment of mergers and takeovers has been predominantly on the basis of the turnover of the businesses in question, which is inadequate because; stresses that businesses with low turnovers and substantial start-up losses may also have a large customer base and significant market strength, as the Commission’s unconditional approval of the takeover of WhatsApp by Facebook proves;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Stresses that the temporary State aid inregime established for the financial sector for the stabilisation of the global financial system was necessary but that on completion of the Banking Union must be quickly reduced or totally removed and scrutinised;
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Welcomes the investigations initiated by the Commission in 2014 into unlawful State aid through unfair tax competition and calls on Member States in future to present the Commission with information about their taxation practice in good timein several Member States and extended to all the 28 EU countries in 2015; regrets that the Commission has in the latest mandates opened only a very limited number of investigations into potential tax related state aid cases, in spite of the well- founded suspicions that have been made public in the meantime; calls on the Commission to use the outcome of the current investigations to establish more precise and effective guidelines for tax- related state aids, to make use of its full powers under EU competition rules to tackle harmful tax practices and to sanction Member States and companies found to be involved in such practices ; calls moreover on Member States to exchange information in due time on all the relevant information about their taxation practices with the Commission and the other Member States on and, ultimately, to comply with the obligation to declarenotify special arrangements to the detriment ofhat may affect other Member States;
Amendment 233 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Stresses that State aid proceedings alone cannot put a permanent stop to the unfair tax competition in a number of Member States of the European Union; considers that further tangible results are required in the fight against unfair tax practices, such as a consolidated basis of calculation for capital gains, a review of the VAT Directive in order to prevent fraud, and the obligation on large interfor multinational companies to report their turnover and profits on a transparent ‘country by country’ basis and; callings on Member States to introduce greater transparency into their tax practices and mutual reporting requirements;
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Considers that healthyfair tax competition is one of the constitutive elements of the EU internal market of the Union bu; stresses therefore that unfair tax competition must be prevented through minimum rates of corporate taxation and harmonised tax bases;
Amendment 258 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Considers that in view of an estimated volume of tax fraud and tax avoidance, according to The European Commission, of up to one btrillion euros a year in the EU, both the Member States must ultimatelyand the EU must tackle and restrict this practice in a coordinated way;
Amendment 267 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Welcomes the intention of the Competition Commissioner to reorganise the control of the State aid rules as part of the efforts to ensure a fair tax burden for all; Expects that prior to this reorganisation there will be an unconditional and complete evalucalls therefore in this context on the Commission to consider strengthening of its resources both in financial and in staff terms, to be able to pursue all the necessary investigation ands; calls on themoreover on Member States to abandon their current blockade mentality that prevents progress in this area;
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Calls on the Commission to modify without delay the existing rules, in order to allow the amounts recovered following an infringement of EUthe EU tax-related State aid rules to be returned to the Member States which have suffered from an erosion of their tax bases and not to the Member State which granted the illegal tax-related State aid, as is currently the case, whichas this rule provides an additional incentives to tax dodging;