6 Amendments of Maria NOICHL related to 2022/2080(INI)
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Highlights that the revelations known as the Pandora Papers, released by the International Consortium for Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), show apparent tax evasion and money laundering on a vast scale, in particular through letterbox companies and trusts;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Recalls the broad consensus in connection with the adoption of the UN’s Agenda 2030 with the Sustainable Development Goals on the need to fundamentally increase investments to boost sustainable growth and “go from billions to trillions” in financing for development through the mobilisation of private capital;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Reminds that the European Parliament has repeatedly stressed the need for a review of the EU listing process of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes to improve its transparency, the criteria used, and the effectiveness of associated defence measures;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Reiterates its call to reform the Code of Conduct for business taxation to combat harmful tax practices, which has become seriously outdated in the context of growing digitisation and globalisation, and asks to replace it with a framework on aggressive tax arrangements and low- rates, which would include sharper criteria for defining what constitutes a tax heaven, as well as inclusion of highly mobile wealthy individuals under the scope of the instrument;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Emphasises that a step-change in the taxation of private and corporate profits as well as private wealth is essential to increase fiscal spaces to fund sustainable investments and gather the much needed development funding, which is now more urgently needed than ever before due to the relentless worsening of the impacts of climate change and the continuing impacts of the COVID pandemic, especially in the Global South;