Activities of Miguel URBÁN CRESPO related to 2022/2080(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the lessons learnt from the Pandora Papers and other revelations
Amendments (5)
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Denounces the existence of a shadowy offshore financial system with offices all over the world, which is allowing enrichment at the public’s expense; regrets that, despite a decade of tax scandals and legislative reforms in the EU, the Pandora Papers reveal that there has been insufficient progress at global level to rein in corporate secrecy and offshore tax evasion and avoidance; recalls that corporate ownership secrecy is used to hide personal financial interests;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers that tax avoidance by multinationals and the existence of tax havens offering no or extremely low effective tax rates are heavily detrimental to the fair collection of tax in countries in the Global South; stresses that tax evasion causes developing countries to lose more money each year than the total amount of aid they receive and represents another way of extracting resources from the Global South to the richest countries, deepening the gap between the two and the processes of global south impoverishment;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the EU to support developing countries in combatting illicit financial flows, EU companies and multinationals tax evasion, to ensure taxes are paid where profits and real economic value is created, in order to stop base erosion and to abolish profit- shifting;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to support the proposal of a UN convention on tax;