9 Amendments of Valentino GRANT related to 2022/2172(INI)
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses the crucial and growing importance ofat the EU budget ins a means of delivering on virtually all of the EU’s key policy objectives, 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, civil protection and space; considers therefore that all new EU policies and challenges must involve new 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 financbe accompanied by the efficient use of the means and resources made available;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Points out persistent shortcomings in new own resources design and their predictability, meanwhile manifesting legal pressure as regards their introduction brings systemic risks;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Points out the risks of companies' relocation and capital outflow from the European Union;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls, therefore, for the establishment of a ‘fair border tax’ requiring companies imexporting goods into the EU to pay a levy for any workers in their global supply chain who are paid a daily wage that is insufficient to allow them to escape absolute poverty, as characterised by international organisations; underlines that any company imexporting into the EU single market products made by workers paid less than a fixed poverty threshold would have to pay a duty amounting to the difference between this threshold and the salary their workers receive;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Considers that the EU ‘fair border tax’ wshould incentivise third-country companies operating in the EU to raise salaries in their global supply chains and thus improve living conditions for workers in third countries and drive reform in countries with poor labour standards and regulations, while ensuring that European consumers do not contribute to extreme exploitation; notes that the competitiveness of companies producing in the EU could improve under this mechanism; points out that this mechanism should comply with World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, in particular Article XX(b) for the protection of human life or health;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Deplores the establishment of a 'fair border tax' in its present form, calling on the EU instead to step up cooperation with the third country responsible for enforcing key competition rules and ensuring that workers' rights are fully respected, rather than seeking to sidestep the issue by levying a duty on the EU companies concerned, thereby burdening them with a new and additional form of European taxation;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19 a. Points out three major risks of introduction of such tax: 1) double taxation, as providers could be liable for a consumption tax on their digital services, while also having to pay a corporate income tax on the profits gained from the same services; 2) consumption taxes may need to be paid even if the company is not profitable; 3) adverse effects may present in global trade relations, as major players on the digital services market may persuade their home countries, like China and USA, to retaliate, as happened when France introduced its digital service tax1a; _________________ 1a https://www.politico.eu/article/ustr- announces-duties-on-1-3b-in-french- goods-in-tax-dispute/
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Deplores the creation of a new own resource based on the gender pay gap; emphasises that a new form of taxation along these lines is not a suitable response to gender pay gap and that investment in appropriate training and employment opportunities would be preferable;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Deplores the introduction and ongoing search for additional EU own resources, given the need for the Union to rationalise spending and streamline its administration before subjecting European citizens and businesses to new forms of taxation;