16 Amendments of Mylène TROSZCZYNSKI related to 2018/2095(INI)
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas Articles 2 and 3 of the TEU acknowledge non-discrimination and equality between women and men as essential values and aims of the Union; whereas Articles 8 and 11 of the TFEU oblige the European institutions to aim for gender equality, integrapromoting equality between women and men into all the Union’s policies and activitiesthrough sound, pragmatic, common-sense policies, in line with the principle of subsidiarity;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the Beijing Platform for Action emphasises the need to analyse tax policies from a gender perspective and to adjust them to promote a more equitable distribution of productive assets, wealth, opportunities, income and services, so as to help women and men in Europe and throughout the world to have a better life, without restricting the freedom of individuals, and in line with the principle of subsidiarity;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the Commission staff working document ‘Strategic Engagement for Gender Equality (2016-2019)’ identifies key areas for gender equality, including taxation policies, but, in line with the principle of subsidiarity, rightly lacks binding provisions or a call for commitment to gender mainstreaming at Member State level;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas taxation policies can have explicit or implicit gender biases; whereas an explicit bias means that a tax provision directly targets either men or women in a distinct way, while an implicit bias means that the provision nominally applies equally to all but in reality discriminates against womenare flawed and ways should be found to make them fairer, particularly in the interests of families;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the lack of a gender perspective in EU and national taxation policiesEU taxation policies, which under the principle of subsidiarity ought not to exist, reinforces current gender gaps (employment, income, unpaid work, pension, poverty, wealth, etc.), creates; whereas certain aspects of the Member States’ taxation policies create disincentives for women to enter and remain in the labour market, and reproduces traditional gender roles and stereotypes, in particular, create disincentives for couples to start a family;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the design of tax policies is an essential featureoptional proposals for Member States in relation to tax policies are part of the Europe 2020 strategy; whereas the main focus of the Semester remains ensuring compliance with the Stability and Growth Pact, within the bounds set by the principle of subsidiarity, and whereas gender aspects tend to be disregarded in priorities and recommendations, particularly those relating to taxation;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission to support gender equality in all taxation policies and to issue specific guidelines and recommendations to Member States, including that they carry out gender audits of fiscal policies in order to eliminate tax-related gender biases and to ensure that no new tax, spending laws, programmes or practices that increase market or after-tax income gender gapsrefrain from taking initiatives on taxation policy, as this is a matter for the Member States; calls on the Member States to support gender equality in all taxation policies and to take account of Parliament’s non- binding recommendations; calls on Parliament to reject the ideology that sets a feminist fantasy vision orf that reinforce the male breadwinner model are establishede family against the reality of what a family is;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission (DG TAXUD) to be explicitly mandated to cooperate with EIGE in order to monitor and regularly report on the impact of Member States’ taxation polices on gender equality; calls on the Commission to increase the resources for EIGE for this purpose;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to promote EU ratification of the CEDAW Convention, as it has done for the UNCRPD and the Istanbul ConventionMember States to consider the ratification of a convention which, by focusing on the family, would offer ways of eliminating all forms of discrimination against women, as well as many of the distressing social problems that EU citizens currently face;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines the need for the next Strategic Engagement for Gender Equality to include clear objectives, indicators and institutional mechanisms to ensure gender equality in taxation policies and calls again on the Commission to enhance the status of the Strategic Engagement by adopting it as a communication12proposals to the Member States to ensure gender equality in taxation policies; __________________ 12 As called for in the Council conclusions on Gender Equality of 16 June 2016.
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Member States to eliminateamend tax-related disincentives to female employment and to design refundable tax credits for secondary earners and single parents based on individual incomemeasures which prevent women from choosing freely between employment and starting a family;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Regrets that gender equality has not been recognised as a horizontal priority in the multiannual financial framework for the years 2021 to 2027 and urges the EU to immediately integrate gender budgeting with regard to revenues and expenditures in the budgetary process, in line with the EU’s gender mainstreaming obligation;