Activities of Rolandas PAKSAS related to 2015/2010(INL)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION Bringing transparency, coordination and convergence to Corporate Tax policies in the Union
Amendments (5)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. WelcomesTakes note of the recent initiatives of the Commission and encourages Member States to tackle further tax fraud, tax evasion and tax avoidance, promoting clear and fair tax rulings, combatting aggressive tax planning and re-launching the Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base scheme,; insists in the importance of ensuring a fully public and transparent country-by- country reporting for multinational companies, while stressing the importance to avoid anyunjustified increases in administrative burdens and cost of compliance;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Regrets the lack of collaboration of some Member States regarding the exchange of tax-related information with the rest of the Member States, concerning taxes due and/or paid in their territory by nationals or business registered in the rest of the Member States; considers that the Commission should certainly devote priority efforts to improve the reciprocal collaboration in the matter;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Insist that the Commission should coordinate the design of common rules in order to eliminate current fiscal privileges of multinational and transnational companies (e.g. tax rulings, tax agreements, etc.), favouring them in an unfair way over SMEs, which have scarce or none possibilities of developing for themselves tailored tax optimisations;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Requests the Commission to develop initiatives for improving the identification of tax havens and for applying severe sanctions to European companies which use them for avoiding their tax responsibilities vis-à-vis the Member States;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines the importance of guaranteeing personal data protection, confidentiality of information exchanged and freedom to conduct a business; encourages, in the strict respect of the principle of public interest; encourages, accordingly, the identification of solutions that strike a balance between transparency and confidentiality, especially concerning the automatic, immediate and exhaustive exchange among Member States of all relevant tax information;