20 Amendments of Eva-Maria Alexandrova POPTCHEVA related to 2022/2146(INI)
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas Member States are free to decide on their own economic policies, in particular their own tax policies within the boundaries of the EU Treaties; whereas a well-functioning tax system is in the interest of Member States in order to ensure proper tax collection; whereas, although tax policy largely remains a responsibility of the Member States, the single market requires coordination in setting tax policy in order to further single market integration;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the BEPS action plan managed to establish a global consensus on many issues regarding the fight against tax avoidance and aggressive tax planning;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the EU led by example in transposing international agreements into a high number of tax directives improving coordination and the EU’s fight against tax fraud, tax avoidance and aggressive tax planning;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas as of 16 December 2022, 138 statejurisdictions, including all EU Member States, had agreed on the reform of the international tax system through a two- pillar solution;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas tax policy fragmentation creates various obstacles for citizens and companies in the single market, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs); whereas these obstacles discourage cross-border economic activity and can distort the single market; whereas Member States continue to lose tax revenue due to harmful tax practices enabled by loopholes between Member States’ legislation, or between Member States and third countries, and estimates of revenue lost as a result of harmful tax practices range from EUR 36-37 billion to EUR 160-190 billion per year; whereas policy fragmentations might increase the cost of enforcement for tax authorities;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that EU Member States cooperating on corporate taxation is not a goal in itself, but rather a tool to complete, improve and further develop the single marketalthough tax policy largely remains a Member State responsibility, the single market requires tax cooperation and harmonization in setting tax policy ;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to present an overall evaluation of actions taken on corporate taxation since 2011 and to immediately ease the burden on businesses by invoking a regulatory moratorium and delaying those tax acts that would unnecessarily increase costs for businesses already under strain; calls on the Commission to carry out competitiveness checks for new legislative tax proposals, as requested by the European Council for all new proposals on 22 March 2023;
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Member States to engage in policies of full expensing for capital investments, in particular for R&D investment, and to make capital allowance provisions permanent in order to improve real investments and to assist Europe’s competitiveness;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Takes note ofWelcomes the two-pillar solution reached at the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework on the allocation of taxing rights and the application of a minimum effective tax rate of 15 % on the global profits of MNEs; welcomes the adoption of the Pillar Two Directive implementing the international agreement in the EU law;
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Observes that, in addition to coping with a volatile business environment and an increasing number of EU tax directives, companies are focusing their financial and human resources on applying the Pillar Two rules; calls on the Commission to give companies bavoid creathing space and enough time to prepare for the possible new BEFIT rulesa disproportionate burden on companies when proposing further measures in the field of corporate taxation;
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 3
Subheading 3
Towards a more harmonized and simplified corporate tax regime
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Highlights that the fragmentation of national tax policies can have a distortive effect on the EU single market and be harmful for the EU economy, particularly for SMEs, as they have to cope with up to 27 different tax systems ; Calls on the Commission to guide all the Member States towards a simplified and more harmonized tax system to reduce the administrative burden for companies, especially SMEs; acknowledges that simplifying refund procedures, deductions and litigation are other solutions to reduce the administrative burden, especially for SMEs;
Amendment 231 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Welcomes that the EU has developed peer review procedures within the Code of Conduct Group for business taxation; underlines that in this framework Member States re-examine, amend or abolish their existing tax measures that constitute harmful tax competition, as well as refrain from introducing new ones in the future; welcomes in this regard the 2022 Council agreement to broaden the scope of the tax measures under scrutiny when examining harmful tax practices within the EU;
Amendment 241 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Welcomes the Commission’s plan to work on a BEFIT proposal, expected in the third quarter of 2023, with a view to designing a new and single EU corporate tax rulebook, based on a fair, comprehensive and effective formulary apportionment and a common tax base of income taxation for businesses, which wil. In this context, calls on the Commission to ensure that the new proposal provides clarity and predictability for companies;
Amendment 242 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Welcomes the Commission’s plan to work on a BEFIT proposal, expected in the third quarter of 2023, with a view to designing a new and single EU corporate tax rulebook, based on a fair, comprehensive and effective formulary apportionment and a common tax base of income taxation for businesses, which will provide clarity and predictability for companies; further welcomes the fact that the Commission considers the potential introduction of a new own resource based on BEFIT framework once adopted, in accordance with the Interinstitutional Agreement of 16 December 2020 between the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission on budgetary discipline, on cooperation in budgetary matters and on sound financial management, as well as on new own resources, including a roadmap towards the introduction of new own resources (IIA)1a; _________________ 1a OJ L 433 I, 22.12.2020, p. 28.
Amendment 245 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Underlines the Commission’s Communication on Business taxation for the 21st century stating that “the lack of a common corporate tax system in the Single Market acts as a drag on competitiveness (...) and that it creates a competitive disadvantage compared to third country markets”; Welcomes the Commission’s plan to work on a BEFIT proposal, expected in the third quarter of 2023, with a view to designing a new and single EU corporate tax rulebook, based on a fair, comprehensive and effective formulary apportionment and a common tax base of income taxation for businesses, which will provide clarity and predictability for companies;
Amendment 253 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Takes note ofWelcomes the BEFIT objectives, as addressed in the Commission’s call for evidence for an impact assessment, to increase businesses’ resilience by reducing the complexity of tax rules and the compliance costs faced by EU businesses with cross-border operations, to remove obstacles to cross- border investment and make the single market a more attractive location for international investment, to create an environment conducive to fair and sustainable growth by paving the way for administrative simplification, and to provide sustainable tax revenue, which is particularly important in the current challenging economic climate;
Amendment 255 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Takes note of the BEFIT objectives, as addressed in the Commission’s call for evidence for an impact assessment, to increase businesses’ resilience by reducing the complexity of tax rules and the compliance costs faced by EU businesses with cross-border operations, to remove obstacles to cross- border investment and make the single market a more attractive location for international investment, to create an environment conducive to fair and sustainable growth by paving the way for administrative simplification, and to provide sustainable tax revenue, which is particularly important in the current challenging economic climate; emphasises that the implementation of a single tax rulebook would help reduce the scope for harmful tax competition between Member States while decreasing compliance costs, in particular for cross-border economic operations;
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Highlights the idea ofCalls for a one-stop- shop allowing for the filing of one consolidated tax return as a way of reducing administrative burden and minimising tax obstacles to the Single Market; calls on the Commission to introduce a one-stop-shop for the application of the BEFIT rules in a test phase and to incorporate it as a permanent feature of BEFIT if the test phase is successful;
Amendment 273 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Takes note ofWelcomes the Commission proposal of 11 May 2022 addressing the debt-equity bias as a means to promoting financing through capital markets; deplores the Council decision of 6 December 2022 to suspend the examination of the proposal; calls on the Council to relaunch negotiations on this proposal;