Activities of Enrique GUERRERO SALOM related to 2015/2058(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Tax avoidance and tax evasion as challenges in developing countries (A8-0184/2015 - Elly Schlein) ES
Amendments (7)
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Insists that effective mobilisation of domestic resources and a strengthening of tax systems will be an indispensable factor in achieving the post-2015 framework that will replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which represents a viable strategy to overcome foreign aid dependency in the long term, and that efficient and fair tax systems are crucial for poverty reduction, fighting inequalities, good governance and state- building;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that tax avoidance and tax evasion represent a considerable financial loss for developing countries, and that taking appropriate measures at national, European and international level against these practices should be a top priority for the EU, taking into account the needs and constraints that developing countries face in gaining access to their tax revenues; considers that the EU should be taking a leading role in driving international efforts to combat tax havens, tax fraud and evasion, leading by example; and that it should cooperate with developing countries in counteracting aggressive tax avoidance practices by certain transnational companies, as well as in seeking ways to help them withstand pressures to engage in tax competition;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Urges that information on beneficial ownership of companies, trusts and other institutions be made publicly available in open-data formats, in order to prevent anonymous shell companies and similar legal structures from being used to launder money, finance illegal activities or terrorist activities, conceal the identity of corrupt and criminal individuals, hide the theft of public funds and profits from illegal traffic and illegal tax evasion;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Welcomes the adoption of an Automatic Exchange of Information mechanism, a fundamental tool for enhancing global transparency and cooperation in the fight against tax avoidance and tax evasion; acknowledges, however, that support and time is needed for developing countries to build the required capacity to send and process information; therefore stresses the importance of ensuring that the new OECD Global Standard on Automatic Exchange of Information include a transition period for developing countries, recognising that by making this standard reciprocal, those countries that do not have the resources and capacity to set up the necessary infrastructure to collect, manage and share the required information might effectively be excluded; moreover, considers that a single standard on confidentiality should be envisaged;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. UStrongly supports the range of existing international initiatives to reform the global system, with a focus on the increased participation of developing countries in the structures and procedures of international tax cooperation; urges the EU and the Member States to ensure that the UN taxation committee is transformed into a genuine intergovernmental body equipped with additional resources, ensuring that developing countries can participate equally in the global reform of existing international tax rules;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls on the Commission , the Council and our partner governments to ensure that tax incentives do not constitute additional options for tax avoidance; underlines that incentives should be made more transparent and ideally geared towards promoting investment in sustainable development;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the EIB to ensure that companies that receive EIB support do not participate in tax evasion and avoidance via offshore centres and tax havens, and to increase its transparency policy by, for example, making publicly available all of its reports and investigations;