Activities of Werner LANGEN related to 2008/2033(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Coordinated strategy to improve the fight against fiscal fraud (debate)
Amendments (9)
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading before paragraph 1
Subheading before paragraph 1
The EUMember States’ and EU’s Fiscal Fraud Strategy
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new) (before the subheading ‘General issues: extent of fiscal fraud and its consequences’)
Paragraph 1 a (new) (before the subheading ‘General issues: extent of fiscal fraud and its consequences’)
1a. Calls on the Member States finally to take the fight against fiscal fraud seriously;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new) (before the subheading ‘General issues: extent of fiscal fraud and its consequences’)
Paragraph 1 b (new) (before the subheading ‘General issues: extent of fiscal fraud and its consequences’)
1b. Regrets the blockade attitude of some Member States in the last ten years, which has thwarted any effective EU strategy to counter fiscal fraud;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 c (new) (before the subheading ‘General issues: extent of fiscal fraud and its consequences’)
Paragraph 1 c (new) (before the subheading ‘General issues: extent of fiscal fraud and its consequences’)
1c. Regrets the Ecofin Council’s decision of May 2008 to reject a pilot project by Austria for the value added tax system;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 d (new) (before the subheading ‘General issues: extent of fiscal fraud and its consequences’)
Paragraph 1 d (new) (before the subheading ‘General issues: extent of fiscal fraud and its consequences’)
1d. Regrets that in spite of repeated analyses, challenges and objections the Council has not yet adopted an effective strategy for the fight against fiscal fraud;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 e (new) (before the subheading ‘General issues: extent of fiscal fraud and its consequences’)
Paragraph 1 e (new) (before the subheading ‘General issues: extent of fiscal fraud and its consequences’)
1e. Urges the Commission not to desist from tackling the problem head-on, in spite of repeated failures in past decades;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls for a uniform data survey in all the Member States as the basis for transparency and national countermeasures against tax fraud;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. BelievNotes that the best solution to tackle cross-border-relatedreducing the range of VAT fraud is to introduce a system in which the VAT exemption for intra-Community trade is replaced by taxation at the rate of 15 %; notes that the operation of that system would be better served if the variety and complexity of reduced rates were substantially simplified, minimising the administrative burden on both businesses and tax authoritiestes from the present 10 percentage points to between 2 and 4 percentage points would be an effective start in helping to reduce the opportunities for tax fraud; regrets that there has been no willingness among the Member States to bring VAT rates into line;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Welcomes the Commission’s announcement relating to the reform of the Savings Tax Directive and urges Member States to give priority to that reformRegrets that the Member States are hindering reform of the Savings Tax Directive by their continual new objections and delaying tactics and urges the Commission to put forward its proposals as soon as possible in spite of the signs of resistance;