8 Amendments of Mojca KLEVA KEKUŠ related to 2012/2256(INI)
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. whereas Europe's future economic prosperity depends crucially on its ability to fully utilise its labour resources, also by increasing the participation of women in the labour market;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Q a (new)
Recital Q a (new)
Qa. whereas fiscal tightening should not jeopardise the progress achieved by policies promoting gender equality nor serve as a pretext for reducing efforts in this respect;
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission and the Council to revise the recommended fiscal adjustment policies whenever economies move into recession, guaranteeing minimum levels of social welfare, safeguarding basic labour rights and avoiding a recessionary spiral; calls on the Commission and the Council to propose Union instruments for social protection and minimum social standards, focusing especially on women and disabled persons;
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls also on the Commission to come forward with a holistic approach to tackling growth, which should include a genuine European industrial policy, a robust and adequately funded cohesion policy and the guarantee that Europe will use all its strength and influence in its external trade relations; calls on the Commission to exploit to the full the sources of growth stemming from trade with third countries and establish reciprocity as well as fair trade; calls on the Commission to include strong social clauses in trade agreements on the basis of International Labour Organisation labour standards;
Amendment 246 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls onWelcomes the Commission to present concrete proposals to improve's Action Plan to strengthen the fight against tax fraud and tax evasion, including in relation to third countries, as an essential tool for a; calls on the Member States to follow up on Commission's recommendations, take immediate and coordinated action against tax havens and aggressive tax planning and thus guarantee fairer distribution of the fiscal effort and for increasinged Member States' revenue;
Amendment 306 #
Motion for a resolution
Annex - Part 3 – paragraph 1
Annex - Part 3 – paragraph 1
Using consistently credible sources the resulting estimate of tax evasion and tax avoidance in the European Union reaches approximately €1 trillion a year. Thus, the current tax gap in the EU represents a scandalous loss of public revenue, a threat to proper functioning of the Single Market and a dent to the efficiency and fairness of tax systems within the EU. Tackling both tax avoidance and tax evasion is possible only if Member States are willing to consistently implement actions that build on introducing: country- by-country reporting, a Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base, a thorough accounting reform, a change in corporate accounting disclosure for tax purposes, an elimination of aggressive tax planning practices, a closure of double taxation loopholes, more investment in tax audits staff and an upgrade and extension of the European Union Savings Tax Directive.
Amendment 308 #
Motion for a resolution
Annex - Part 3 – paragraph 2
Annex - Part 3 – paragraph 2
The Commission -presented an aAction plan onto strengthen the fight against tax fraud, and tax evasion andrepresents a belated but certainly welcomed step forward to tackle tax havensoidance on EU level; this new focus must now be unanimously embraced by Member States with a view to agree on an ambitious while realistic headline target: halving the tax gap by 2020. By moving towards this target, member states would gradually achieve new tax revenue without raising tax rates at the level of several hundred billion € a year.
Amendment 321 #
Motion for a resolution
Annex - Part 3 – paragraph 5
Annex - Part 3 – paragraph 5
It is of paramount importance that the Commission deals with non-EU countries on behalf of the EU as a whole without leaving the initiative to single countries engaging in bilateral agreements. Namely the EU must lead the discussion, in the G20 and then G8, on the fight against tax havens and through its measures persuade non-EU countries to apply EU governance standards in regards to fair taxation, assisting them to subscribe to EU principles of transparency, exchange of information and abolition of harmful tax measures.