Activities of Mary HONEYBALL related to 2018/2095(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on gender equality and taxation policies in the EU PDF (485 KB) DOC (68 KB)
Amendments (6)
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on all Member States to shift from joint taxation to individual taxation; believes that until tax systems are no longer based on the assumption that households pool and share their funds equally, tax fairness for women will not be achieveUnderlines the negative consequences on incentivising women’s employment, their economic independence and the high gender pension gap resulting from joint taxation; recognises the commitment to men and women being equal earners and equal carers; suggests as a consequence that individual taxation could aid women regain and retain economic independence; calls on Member States to implement an individual taxation system alongside a household taxation system, offering the possibility of switching to an individual taxation system to each household by simple request of one member of the household;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Member States to introduce tax credits for work-related childcare costs in order to reduce the obstacles of taking up paid employment for women and contribute to a more equal sharing of paid and unpaid work within households;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Regrets that femmenstruale hygienic productse and care products and services for children or older people are stillre not considered as basic products in all Member States; calls on all Member States to eliminate the so-called ‘care and tampon tax’ by making use of the flexibility introduced in the VAT Directive and applying exemptions or 0 % VAT rates to these essential basic goonsiders that period poverty is an ongoing issue in the EU where it is estimated by Plan International UK that 1/10 girls cannot afford sanitary products and that in2017 in the UK, 49% of girls missed at least one full day of school due to their periods;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Notes thCalls on all Member States to eliminate tax evasion and tax avoidance are major contributors to gender inequality in the Union and globally as they limit the resources available to governments to increase equality at national and international he so-called ‘care and tampon tax’ by making use of the flexibility introduced in the VAT Directive and applying exemptions or 0 % VAT rates to these essential basic goods; recognises that a reduction in price due to exemption of VAT on these products would have immeasurable benefit for young women; recognises that this would be a further step towards making sanitary products free in schools, universities and homeless shelters, and for women from low-income backgrounds, with the aim of eradicating period poverty complevtel17 ; y across the EU; __________________ 17 UN ‘Final study on illicit financial flows, human rights and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’ of the Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and other related international financial obligations of states on the full enjoyment of all human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights, 2016.
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to carry out gender impact assessments of fiscal policies before and after implementation, focusing on multiplier effect and implicit bias;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Underlines that further research and better collection of gender-disaggregated data are required as regards gender- differentiated distributional and allocative effects of the taxation system; in particular, calls on the Member States to collect tax data on an individual basis and not only on a household basis, and to close the gender data gaps on consumption patterns and the use of reduced rates, on the distribution of entrepreneurial income and related tax payments and on the distribution of net wealth, capital incomes and related tax payments;