Traduction de «comprehensive income tax system » (Anglais → Français) :

P. whereas the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States and the American Institute in Taiwan have agreed on Joint Statements on Principles for International Investment and on ICT services; whereas, similarly, Taiwan has concluded comprehensive income tax agreements with 25 countries, including nine EU Member States;

P. whereas the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States and the American Institute in Taiwan have agreed on Joint Statements on Principles for International Investment and on ICT services; whereas, similarly, Taiwan has concluded comprehensive income tax agreements with 25 countries, including nine EU Member States;

16. Asks the Commission and all donors to seek out innovative types of development funding and partnerships; recalls, in this connection, that public-private partnerships, microcredits, profits from financial transaction taxes and peer-to-peer lending can also contribute to advancing development through trade; supports, inter alia, the establishment of South-South and three-way partnerships; recommends better coordination of development projects funded by regional development banks and the World Bank/International Finance Corporation, and more widespread use of interregional funding schemes such as the EU-Africa Infrastructure Trust F ...[+++]und; recommends encouraging recipient countries to establish fair, transparent and comprehensive national tax systems in order to ensure a sustainable source of financial resources;

All the changes mentioned have the effect of reducing the tax burden on higher income earners, while the tax burden is increasing at the opposite end of the income scale. This result is the effect of lowering corporation tax, cutting top income tax rates and switching to a dual income tax system, and of the general shift of emphasis from direct to indirect taxation.

26. Takes note of the mandate by the Ecofin Council to the Commission to seek out alternative sources for development financing and draws attention to the need for a more extensive debate (particularly at multilateral level) and for more thorough analysis regarding the suitability and the feasibility of the various existing proposals for alternative funding instruments, some of which have been analysed in Commission Communication COM(2002) 81 final; suggests in this context that initiatives such as a global tax on fossil fuels (which would have the dual objectives of reducing carbon emissions and raising necessary funds for development) be considered as the possible basis for an EU initiative on this subject to be presented at the Johannes ...[+++]burg Summit; calls on the Commission in the context of the requested analysis to consider the merits of instituting within the EU a "Give As You Earn (GAYE)" scheme by which each Member State would make provision in their income tax systems for taxpayers to make voluntary, tax deductible, contributions for charitable causes, a minimum amount of which (e.g. EUR 10 per taxpayer) would be paid into a special fund devoted exclusively to relieve poverty in the world's poorest countries (the so-called "Sachs tax");

Concerning problems of double taxation and non-taxation arising from the mismatch of tax systems, the Commission recommends wider application of the "EET system" (Exempt contributions, Exempt investment income and capital gains of the pension institution, Taxed benefits) already applied in eleven Member States, entailing the deductibility of pension contributions and investment income coupled with the taxation of benefits, together with better coordination of Member States' taxation rules.