6 Amendments of Charles GOERENS related to 2022/2080(INI)
Amendment 15 #
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1. Denounces the existence of a shadowy offshore financial system with offices all over the world, which is allowing enrichment of already most powerful and richest at the public’s expense;
Amendment 19 #
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2. Emphasises that the practices brought to light by the Pandora Papers revelations have an especially severe impact on the fiscal space and public expenditure of developing countries;
Amendment 28 #
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3. Considers that tax avoidance by multinationals and the existence of tax havens offering no or extremely low effective tax rates are heavily detrimental to the fair collection of tax in countries in the Global Southwhich is detrimental to the rest of society; highlights that the ability to hide money has a direct impact on people’s life: it affects access to education, to health, to a home, among others, and especially in developing countries;
Amendment 32 #
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3. Considers that tax avoidance by multinationals, as well as by some of the world’s richest and most powerful people, including current and former presidents, prime ministers and heads of state, and the existence of tax havens offering no or extremely low effective tax rates are heavily detrimental to the fair collection of tax in countries in the Global South;
Amendment 41 #
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4. Emphasises the structural implications of the tax avoidance practices of both multinationals and individuals for developing countries’ fiscal capacities and mid to long-term growth prospects; highlights the increase in inequality and poverty caused by the lack of fiscal space as a result of tax avoidance;
Amendment 46 #
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5. Recalls that the upcomingWelcomes and encourages the further effort to building on the global corporate minimum tax that will define a fixed baseline for corporate taxation, thereby combating corporate tax avoidance, and calls for the resulting fiscal capacities to be used to build more resilient, sustainable and equal societies; calls for international cooperation on the corporate minimum tax to be utilised in such a way as to introduce better transparency measures for the prosecution of tax avoiders; calls on the EU MSs to live up to the ambition and give their political backing to this global project;