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7 Amendments of Neena GILL related to 2015/2147(INI)

Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that sustainable economic growth in Europe can onlyin particular be achieved through productivity gains and developing sectors characterised by high added value; encourages in this sense all the efforts made by the Commission in supporting the transition towards a digital economy; stresses the need to establish global links.
2015/10/19
Committee: ECON
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Points out that, for the digital economy to flourish, access to capital for both new and existing enterprises must be improved; welcomes the work of the Commission on the Capital Markets Union; encourages further legislative harmonisation in areas such as crowd-funding and digital currencies; underlines further the need to stimulate the venture capital regime in the EU.
2015/10/19
Committee: ECON
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Considers that a truly pan-European approach to cross-border taxation systemissues is needed to create a true European Single Market and to prevent the tax avoidanceaggressive tax planning practices used by several digital platforms, as highlighted by recent inquiries; calls on the Commission to support extending thmake public country-by- country reporting regime on taxesmandatory and public for multinational companies toin all sectors;
2015/10/19
Committee: ECON
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Supports the Commission’s decision to review internet platforms; encourages the Commission to create a legislative framework specifying the exact role of intermediaries, ensuring the development of innovative ideas, protection of work standards and compliance with existing fiscal rules;
2015/10/19
Committee: ECON
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Supports the Commission’s decision to review internet platforms; encourages the Commission to create a legislative framework ensuring the development of innovative ideas, protection of work standards and compliance with existing fiscal rules; encourages the Commission, when doing so, to ensure that this legislative framework encourages online platforms to do more to ease administrative burdens on the smallest online businesses that make use of their services;
2015/10/19
Committee: ECON
Amendment 95 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Council and the Commission to immediately suspend the new rules on place of supply for VAT on digital services for the first €20,000 of cross-border digital sales and allow businesses to return to being subject to their domestic VAT rules for that revenue; calls for this suspension to apply for as long as it takes the Commission to introduce the common EU-wide Digital VAT threshold which was promised in the Digital Single Market Strategy, and again at the FISCALIS conference in September 2015;
2015/10/19
Committee: ECON
Amendment 101 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Believes that the development of a European digital economy requires a sufficient level of competition and plurality of service providers, and u. Considers some digital initiatives as an opportunity to modernise existing legislation while ensuring and safeguarding social rights. Underlines that the presence of network effects allows for the creation of semi- monopolistic positions; supports the Commission’s efforts in preventing and punishing abuses; encourages the Commission to remove barriers to entry in the field of digital economy in sectors where few players, according to the Commission’s competition standards, are dominant; supports actions for stronger interoperability and portability across all digital sectors as a further way of opening the market to competition.
2015/10/19
Committee: ECON