Activities of Bernard MONOT related to 2014/2144(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Annual Tax report (A8-0040/2015 - Eva Kaili) FR
Amendments (5)
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas many businesses, in particular multinationals, commonly structure their global tax position in a way that allows profit shifting towards lower tax jurisdictions or seek to secure preferential treatment to reduce their tax payments with the connivance of the authorities and governments of the states concerned;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses, however, that logic demands that the task of implementing reforms of this kind should not be conferred on a Commission whose President advocated and employed, in the recent past and on a large scale, practices entirely at odds with these objectives;
Amendment 270 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Requests that reforming tax expenditures should not result in an unjustified decrease in public expenditube accompanied by measures to rationalise public spending, as this is the only way to reduce budget imbalances in the MSs to a significant degrese;
Amendment 277 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Calls on the Commission and the MSs to reflect on new and innovative tax forms; stresses that the debate on the FTT is crucial; , although they must be consistent with a general trend towards lower taxation and not add to the existing tax burden; stresses that the debate on the FTT is crucial and that it is vital that it should focus primarily on the financial products which are the most volatile and which therefore pose the greatest threat to the stability of the financial system;
Amendment 281 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Reminds the MSs of the need to maintain compulsory taxation at a level which does not act as a brake on initiative and entrepreneurship and that tax flight is not linked solely to the existence of tax havens, but also to the excessive levels of taxation which taxpayers sometimes face in their countries of origin;