6 Amendments of Gilles PARGNEAUX related to 2016/2033(INI)
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Reminds the Commission to act on enhancing the effectiveness of VAT tax systems and on ensuring better compliance with VAT rules; welcomes the application of the ‘country of destination’ of the goods as the underlying principle of the definitive EU VAT system which will lead to the reduction of cross-border VAT fraud by EUR 40 billion per year; encourages the Commission to amend the VAT Directive to hold the importer jointly liable for VAT loss in the Member State of destination or to harmonise the VAT thresholds for distance sales;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Points out that the Member States’ VAT gaps and the estimated losses on VAT collection within the Union amounted to EUR 170 billion in 2015; calls on the Commission to make full use of its executive powers in order to both control and help the Member States; points out that effective action to reduce the VAT gap requires a concerted and multidisciplinary approach as this gap results not only from fraud but from a combination of factors, including bankruptcy and insolvency, statistical errors, late payment, tax evasion and tax avoidance;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Regrets that VAT fraud, and in particular the so-called ‘carousel’ or missing trader fraud, distorts competition and deprives national budgets of significant resources as well as being detrimental to the Union budget; is concerned that the Commission has no reliable data on VAT carousel fraud;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. RegretHopes that administrative cooperation between Member States on fighting VAT fraud is still not sufficientwill be strengthened to cope with intra-EU VAT evasion and fraud mechanisms and to manage cross-border transactions or trading;
Amendment 50 #
15. Stresses the need to reinforce Eurofisc in order to speed up exchanges of information; considers it necessary to linkpool the actions and coordinate the strategies of nationalthe Member States’ tax, judicial, and police authorities and European bodies, such as Europol, Eurojust and OLAF, dealing with the fight against fraud, organised crime and money laundering; encourages all the stakeholders to further consider new models for sharing of information in real time in order to allow for prompt reactions or mitigating measures to combat existing or emerging new fraud schemes;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Stresses that both the Directive on the fight against fraud to the Union’s financial interests by means of criminal law (PIF Directive) and the European Public Prosecutor’s Office Regulation (EPPO Regulation) would complement and strengthen the legal framework and would considerably reinforce the fight against fraud; reiterates Parliament’s stance on the urgent need to adopt the PIF Directive and the EPPO Regulation, with VATthe most harmful types of VAT fraud, for example international gang fraud, included in their scope;