8 Amendments of Bas EICKHOUT related to 2018/2002(INL)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
D a. whereas there is a lack of clear evidence regarding the effectiveness, public costs and benefits of tax incentives for private pension products and concerns in these regards have been expressed by the Commission in its 2009 publication 'Private pension schemes. Their role in adequate and sustainable pensions' and by the Social Protection Committee in its 2008 report 'Privately managed funded pension provision and their contribution to adequate and sustainable pensions';
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)
Recital D b (new)
D b. whereas serious concerns exist in relation to the redistributive effects and the often regressive nature of tax relief for private pension products;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D c (new)
Recital D c (new)
D c. whereas contributions to private pension products tend to be higher among higher earners and tax incentives therefore risk increasing inequality;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Council, with a view to enhancing the uptake of the pan-European Personal Pension Product (PEPP), to elaborate proposals regarding incentives for PEPP saver among low income groups and groups with insufficient access to other collective retirement systems, to elaborate proposals regarding incentives for PEPP savers, provided that these incentives are clearly targeted and monitored for their effectiveness and redistributive effects;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – indent -1 (new)
Paragraph 2 – indent -1 (new)
-1 - analysing existing tax incentives for personal pension products and assessing their costs, effectiveness and redistributive effects and where applicable addressing inefficiencies and regressive effects;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – indent 1
Paragraph 2 – indent 1
- granting the same tax relief to PEPP as the one granted to national personal pension products, even in cases where PEPP features do not fully match all the national criteria where existing national tax relief policies have proven to be efficient and restricted to low income groups and groups with insufficient access to other collective retirement systems;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – indent 2
Paragraph 2 – indent 2
- granting a specific tax relief to PEPP, harmonised at Union level, to be laid down in a multilateral tax agreement between Member States targeted at low income groups and groups with insufficient access to other collective retirement systems, harmonised at Union level;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – indent 3
Paragraph 2 – indent 3
- granting a specific subsidy or premium to PEPP savers, in the form of a fixed amount or fixed percentage targeted at low income groups and groups with insufficient access to other collective retirement systems;