9 Amendments of Alfred SANT related to 2022/2172(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas, pursuant to Article 311 TFEU, the Union must provide itself with the means necessary to attain its politically agreed objectives and carry through its policies, and its budget, without prejudice to other revenue, is to be financed wholly from own resources; whereas Article 311 TFEU provides that Council must consult the European Parliament before adopting a decision on own resources;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses the crucial and growing importance of the EU budget in delivering on virtually all of themost EU’s key policy objectives, and all its flagship programmes and its crisis intervention; underlines the multiple challenges the EU is facing such as building up its strategic autonomy, ending its reliance upon Russian fossil fuels, completing the health union and the energy union and financing important common projects such as defence cooperation, civil protection and space; considers that all new EU policies and challenges must involve new financial means and extra resources; reiterates, in this regard, that robust, reliable and resilient financing of the EU budget requires a diversified and enlarged set of own resources; is convinced that there is huge potential in a well-designed reform of the EU own resources not only for strengthening the financing of its budgetary needs, but also for boosting its policy outputs, improving the fiscal equilibrium between the EU and Member States and adding value to overall public finance;
Amendment 30 #
5. Expresses its high expectations that, with the ETS- and CBAM-based own resources, the long-standing demand for a better linkage of the EU revenue side with environmental policies and the rationale of climate mainstreaming across expenditure and revenue policies will finally become operational; notes that the sectoral negotiations on the CBAM and the ETS have led to an agreement; welcomes the fact that the resulting legal texts in the ETS Directive and the CBAM Regulation remain fully compatible with the own resources proposals; calls for the EU institutions to thoroughly assess the implications regarding the revenue estimations; insists on not using such analyses as a pretext for blocking decision- making; is aware, furthermore, that in the very long run, as the process of decarbonisation continues as planned, the yields from the green own resources will diminish;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Considers that these new own resources are necessary to avoid the next generation of Europeans paying the price for the repayment of the principal and the interest of the funds borrowed under NGEU, either through an increased burden on taxpayers or via cuts in regular EU programmes directly affecting beneficiaries and project- holders; notes the legitimate demand by Europeans for more social and tax justice as well as for equivalent standards of living between the different regions of the EU; warns against any attempt to reduce funding for ordinary EU policies to make space for the repayment of EU debt, as this would endanger long-term EU goals, such as economic convergence, research and innovation or the green transition;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to consider, for its second basket of own resources, an EU-wide financial transaction tax based on its 2011 model, subject to its forming part of an OECD-led global tax deal, which should yield around EUR 41.5 billion per year;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to come forward with an own resource linked to either the upcoming ‘Business in Europe: Framework for Income Taxation’ proposal or to the proposal for a minimum tax directive1 implementing the OECD-led global tax deal, most in particular Pillar II; _________________ 1 Commission proposal for a Council directive on ensuring a global minimum level of taxation for multinational groups in the Union (COM(2021)0823).
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Looks forward to and places high hopes, in this context, in the Commission’s upcoming Business in Europe: Framework for Income Taxation (BEFIT) initiative in the third quarter of 2023; agrees that a single corporate tax rulebook for the EU, based on the key features of a common tax base and the allocation of profits between Member States by using a formula or formulary apportionment, would constitute an excellent starting point for a new own resource in the spirit of the roadmap; expects the new approach to this corporate tax-based own resource to address issues of national differences in corporate taxation that have so far impeded an own resource in this realm and to allow for a broad scope capturing more companies active in the single market than only the few very biggest and most profitable multinationals that are subject to the OECD Pillar One Agreement;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Invites the Commission and the Member States to consider additional new own resources, such as an EU- wide aviationroad tax for intra- European commercial flightspassenger road travel or an own resource based on the revision of the Energy Taxation Directive2 targeted to the production of nuclear energy; _________________ 2 Commission proposal for a Council directive restructuring the Union framework for the taxation of energy products and electricity (COM(2021)0563).
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Reminds Member States that post- 2027 multilaterannual financial framework negotiations will be linked with own resources negotiations; stands ready to make use of all its budgetary powers to ensure that clear and effective progress is made in the area of own resources;