Traduction de «base erosion and profit shifting » (Anglais → Français) :

80. Considers that, in view of studies estimating the annual value of tax fraud and tax avoidance to up to EUR one trillion (1 000 000 000 000), the Member States must ultimately tackle and restrict this practice; takes the view that reducing tax fraud and tax avoidance is fundamental to progress on the consolidation of state budgets; welcomes the recent adoption by the finance ministers of the G20 of new rules drawn up by the OECD on base erosion and profit shifting, which will improve transparency, close loopholes and restrict the use of tax havens; takes the view that, given its degree of integration, the EU must go further than th ...[+++]e proposals presented in the OECD’s Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project in terms of coordination and convergence aimed at avoiding all forms of harmful tax competition within the internal market; stresses, however, that the OECD approach is still based on soft law, and that its action must be complemented by a proper legislative framework at EU level if it is to address the needs of the single market, e.g. in the form of an anti-BEPS directive going beyond the OECD BEPS initiative in areas that are not sufficiently covered; calls for an assessment of the economic, financial and competition-related impact of tax avoidance and tax fraud;

81. Considers that, in view of studies estimating the annual value of tax fraud and tax avoidance to up to EUR one trillion (1 000 000 000 000), the Member States must ultimately tackle and restrict this practice; takes the view that reducing tax fraud and tax avoidance is fundamental to progress on the consolidation of state budgets; welcomes the recent adoption by the finance ministers of the G20 of new rules drawn up by the OECD on base erosion and profit shifting, which will improve transparency, close loopholes and restrict the use of tax havens; takes the view that, given its degree of integration, the EU must go further than th ...[+++]e proposals presented in the OECD’s Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project in terms of coordination and convergence aimed at avoiding all forms of harmful tax competition within the internal market; stresses, however, that the OECD approach is still based on soft law, and that its action must be complemented by a proper legislative framework at EU level if it is to address the needs of the single market, e.g. in the form of an anti-BEPS directive going beyond the OECD BEPS initiative in areas that are not sufficiently covered; calls for an assessment of the economic, financial and competition-related impact of tax avoidance and tax fraud;

116. Welcomes the action plan proposed by the Commission on 17 June 2015 to address tax avoidance and promote fair and efficient corporate taxation in the EU; calls on the Commission to speed up the presentation of legislative modifications for the prompt establishment of a compulsory EU-wide Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (CCCTB), which would address not only the issue of preferential regimes and mismatches between national tax systems, but also most of the issues leading to tax base erosion at European level (in particular transfer pricing issues); calls on the Commission to resume, without delay, the work concluded in 2011 on the proposal for a Council directive establishing the CCCTB, taking account of Parliament’s position th ...[+++]ereon and of new factors which have emerged since then and incorporating the most recent conclusions from the work carried out by the OECD, in particular standards resulting from the Action Plan on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS), so that a consolidated text can be produced in 2016;

The Action Plan on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) proposed by the OECD and approved by the G20 seeks to redefine international tax rules to curb profit-shifting activity, and ensure that companies pay taxes where economic activity takes place and value is created.

i. to come forward with a directive with measures against BEPS (base erosion and profit shifting), in order to end harmful competition on the part of businesses, in particular multinationals, which organise their global tax position, often across the Atlantic, in a way that allows the shifting of profits to lower-tax jurisdictions, taking into account the work of the OECD; to ensure that offshore funds whose managers operate on both sides of the Atlantic are required to establish their headquarters onshore; to take immediate action to ensure the automatic exchange of information and country-by-country reporting regarding tax matters, e ...[+++]xcluding SMEs; to establish a definition and list of tax havens at EU level, taking into account the work of the OECD;

The issue of corporate base erosion is very high in the political agenda of many EU and non-EU countries and has been on the agenda of recent G20 and G8 meetings[1]; the OECD is currently undertaking work on base erosion and profit shifting ('BEPS') which is widely welcomed[2].